Montana · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC
INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,618 to it, the largest being MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($85,368). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $121k
- Net assets
- $188k
What International Choral Festival Inc does
Mission
The international choral festival exists to promote world peace and understanding by sponsoring a choral festival every three years that invites choirs form all locations and cultures across the globe to missoula, montana for the purpose of performing choral music and promoting peace and understanding. The last festival took place in 2023, our next festival will be held in 2025.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
This is a once every two-year festival, and id last took place in 2023. The festival involves many components supporting 4 days of choral music performances. Services include scheduling, meals, soliciting approximately 100 volunteers and host families for the festival, choir travel and logistics, and other miscellaneous services. The festival expenses total 200,000 and the last festival benefitted over 10,000 festival-goers and international choristers.
$38,387 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $38,387.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $135k to $188k (+40%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
98% of INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $14k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 92% · 2019 36% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 64% · 2023 64% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
71% of INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $35k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$35k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC?
- INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,618 to it, the largest being MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($85,368). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $120,618 in grants to INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC?
- MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $85,368 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing