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LAKE SUPERIOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

LAKE SUPERIOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being LLOYD K JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$39k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$-1268
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra does

Mission

Classical music performance and youth education in musical performance

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Production of three orchestral concerts at Weber Music Hall (University of Minnesota Duluth campus)

    $26,348 spent
    80% of program spending
  2. Quartet Project youth string day camp running for eight weekdays and evenings, ending with concerts at Weber Music Hall

    $6,450 spentof which $5,000 as grants
    20% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $32,798.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($59k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets -13491 ($-1484)2018 Revenue 70 ($41k) Expenses 66 ($40k) Net assets 100 ($11)2019 Revenue 57 ($34k) Expenses 57 ($34k) Net assets -6491 ($-714)2020 Revenue 23 ($13k) Expenses 9 ($5k) Net assets 66909 ($7k)2021 Revenue 6 ($3k) Expenses 3 ($2k) Net assets 84318 ($9k)2022 Revenue 21 ($12k) Expenses 18 ($11k) Net assets 94855 ($10k)2023 Revenue 54 ($32k) Expenses 47 ($28k) Net assets 129727 ($14k)2024 Revenue 42 ($25k) Expenses 64 ($39k) Net assets -3382 ($-372)2025 Revenue 67 ($39k) Expenses 64 ($39k) Net assets -11527 ($-1268)
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Revenue (67)Expenses (64)Net assets (-11527)

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 $16k to $2k (−86%).

$1k
$11
$8k
$14k
$16k
$12k
$16k
$2k
$7k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
$1k
’18
−$725
’19
$8k
’20
$2k
’21
$1k
’22
$3k
’23
−$14k
’24
$718
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'18
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of LAKE SUPERIOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA’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.

Where its funders are

100% of LAKE SUPERIOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LAKE SUPERIOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA?
LAKE SUPERIOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being LLOYD K JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAKE SUPERIOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,000 in grants to LAKE SUPERIOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA.
Who is the largest funder of LAKE SUPERIOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA?
LLOYD K JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKE SUPERIOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 1 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