Missouri · Nonprofit
KANSAS CITY CHORALE
KANSAS CITY CHORALE (Missouri) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $915,358 to it, the largest being RICHARD J STERN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS COMMERCE BANK TRUSTEE ($220,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $375k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $915k
- Net assets
- $322k
What Kansas City Chorale does
Mission
Our mission is to use vocal music, a universal language, to bring diverse audiences a rich repertoire that entertains, provokes, educates and inspires through a series of live performances, recordings and broadcasts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Artistic excellence: pursue excellence and strive for artistic truth and musical integrity in programming, performance and recording. Our goal is to provide nationwide audiences access to the highest caliber of choral performance through local performances, touring performances and perofessional recordings for worldwide distribution. Our annual audiences are estiamted at 2,000 individuals in performance and an unestimated number through broadcasts and recordings of our work. The chorale's work has been recognized by the recording academy of arts and sciences twice, with grammy awards in the best choral recording category.
$68,464 spent$23,273 earned by the program33% of program spendingTo bring audiences a rich and diverse repertoire that entertains, educates, provokes, and inspires. The chorale will use its reputation as a world class artistic ensemble to broaden its reach and touch an increasing base of listeners in a wide varienty of socioeconomic, ethnic and georgraphic communities through its performances, broadcasts adn recordings. In additon to direct marketing to specific target audiences, a key element in attracting new and diverse audiences is in our programming. The chorale programs converts each season to reach sepcific segments of the general kansas city audience. Program service accomplishments: a concert in parternship with people to people featuring music from brazil, china, finland, africa, samoa, and japan; milagros de navidad, a holiday concert of latino works; music of jewish traditions; music of ireland; rhythm of life, a concert of native american and western african music; a concert of duke ellington's sacred music.
$68,464 spent$23,271 earned by the program33% of program spendingTo provide students and choral instructors the opportunity to rehearse and perform with world class artists. A holiday concert each year features a performance of the chorale with over 200 honor students from high schools across the metro. Working with their teachers, chorale singers prepare the students for rehearsal and performance with the chorale and provice many of them with individual solo performances. This concert exposes young minds to the rigores of marking art with a preofessional chorus and instills respect, self-confidence, discipline and commitment. Conductor charles bruffy provides a program of workshops and performance coaching at schools throughout the nation. We offer a "free at curtain" program, which provides students free admission to any chorale concert ten minutes prior to the start of the concert.
$68,464 spent$23,271 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $205,392.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $364k to $327k (−10%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 5% · 2022 17% · 2023 5% · 2024 7% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $28k → $132k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 KANSAS CITY CHORALE’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
KANSAS CITY CHORALE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 50% · 2019 31% · 2020 33% · 2021 27% · 2022 20% · 2023 23% — 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.
How long its funders stay
77% of KANSAS CITY CHORALE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 94% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
74% of KANSAS CITY CHORALE's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.
Organizations like KANSAS CITY CHORALE
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KANSAS CITY CHORALE?
- KANSAS CITY CHORALE (Missouri) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $915,358 to it, the largest being RICHARD J STERN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS COMMERCE BANK TRUSTEE ($220,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KANSAS CITY CHORALE have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $915,358 in grants to KANSAS CITY CHORALE, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KANSAS CITY CHORALE?
- RICHARD J STERN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS COMMERCE BANK TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KANSAS CITY CHORALE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing