California · Nonprofit
KITKA INC
KITKA INC (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $614,022 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($396,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $423k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $614k
- Net assets
- $632k
What Kitka Inc does
Mission
Kitka is an American vocal arts ensemble inspired by women's traditional songs and vocal techniques from Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Kitka is dedicated to developing new audiences for this music, and exploring the boundaries of folk song via concerts, workshops, touring, school programs, recordings, publications, broadcast projects, master artist residencies, and commissioning of new works.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Regional and National and International Touring: In FY 24-25 Kitka presented concerts and choral workshops on tour in Northern California, Michigan, and New Hampshire. Kitka also toured for two weeks in Caucasus Georgia, appearing at the International Folk Festival Sakartvelo and the International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony at the Tbilisi Conservatoire.
$102,033 spent$113,036 earned by the program31% of program spendingVocal Workshops, Community Choirs, and Community Sings, sponsored by The Kitka Institute. In FY 24-25, Kitka sponsored live and virtual vocal workshops, community choirs, and community sings exploring a variety of Eastern European and Eurasian vocal traditions. These workshops were led by Kitka's core ensemble vocalists and guest traditional song masters from Bulgaria, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine, as well as artists representing Eastern European Jewish and Romani song traditions.
$75,636 spent$75,798 earned by the program23% of program spendingWintersongs/Supra: A Seasonal Feast of Song 2024: Kitka presented eight December holiday concert programs with a focus on seasonal songs of Caucasus Georgia at venues in Belvedere, Sacramento, Menlo Park, Davis, Oakland, and San Francisco, CA. A live radio-concert of the program was also broadcast twice on San Francisco's NPR-affiliate station, KQED-FM, and the final concert of the series was live-streamed for a global audience.
$60,001 spent$78,365 earned by the program18% of program spendingProduction of New Album, Kolo: In FY 24-25, Kitka began production of their 13th album on their own independent Diaphonica record label. The album, entitled Kolo, was released in December 2025.
$49,011 spent15% of program spendingMiscellaneous program expense.
$46,619 spent$6,471 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $333,300.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $780k to $664k (−15%).
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: 2021 34% · 2022 64% · 2023 18% · 2024 14% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of KITKA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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 held at 3 funders, grant income fell $52k → $42k.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 KITKA 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
KITKA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 87% · 2019 44% · 2020 81% · 2021 50% · 2022 67% · 2023 76% — growing more concentrated.
“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
22% of KITKA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
93% of KITKA INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
KITKA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding KITKA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$150k
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 KITKA 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KITKA 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 KITKA INC?
- KITKA INC (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $614,022 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($396,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KITKA INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $614,022 in grants to KITKA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KITKA INC?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $396,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KITKA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 17 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