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MARIN GIRLS CHORUS

MARIN GIRLS CHORUS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM H DONNER FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$366k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$44k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Marin Girls Chorus does

Mission

Marin Girls Chorus empowers girls through exceptional music education andthe joy of collaborative singing. By creating an inclusive environmentwe provide a stage for our singers to build confidence, community and a strong sense of self.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Marin Girls Chorus provides musical education and performance opportunities for singers in grades K-12.

    $235,975 spent$298,783 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $235,975.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($147k) Expenses 100 ($133k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2019 Revenue 108 ($159k) Expenses 111 ($148k) Net assets 262 ($18k)2020 Revenue 105 ($154k) Expenses 115 ($153k) Net assets 281 ($20k)2021 Revenue 80 ($118k) Expenses 77 ($103k) Net assets 494 ($35k)2022 Revenue 157 ($230k) Expenses 143 ($190k) Net assets 978 ($69k)2023 Revenue 177 ($260k) Expenses 195 ($260k) Net assets 842 ($59k)2024 Revenue 159 ($233k) Expenses 200 ($266k) Net assets 287 ($20k)2025 Revenue 249 ($366k) Expenses 254 ($338k) Net assets 624 ($44k)
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Revenue (249)Expenses (254)Net assets (624)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $23k to $80k (+248%).

$10k
$23k
$80k
$84k
$119k
$104k
$64k
$96k
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

15% of MARIN GIRLS CHORUS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’18
$11k
’19
$1k
’20
$15k
’21
$40k
’22
−$80
’23
−$34k
’24
$28k
’25
3.3
months of
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.

2022202320242025
Listed4533
Joined·+3+0+3
No longer listed·223
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $4k → $17k.

Funder
'21
'22
'25*
'26*
total
Marin Music Chestunclassified
$10k
funders
1
2
1
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MARIN GIRLS CHORUS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 funders by total. 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

MARIN GIRLS CHORUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

40% 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 MARIN GIRLS CHORUS.

60%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 88% — 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

MARIN GIRLS CHORUS draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

NY
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
California out of state home

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

Against its field

MARIN GIRLS CHORUS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve3.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 25%Fundraising 5%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARIN GIRLS CHORUS: 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 MARIN GIRLS CHORUS?
MARIN GIRLS CHORUS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM H DONNER FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MARIN GIRLS CHORUS have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $25,000 in grants to MARIN GIRLS CHORUS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MARIN GIRLS CHORUS?
THE WILLIAM H DONNER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MARIN GIRLS CHORUS 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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