New York · Nonprofit
MASTERVOICES INC
MASTERVOICES INC (New York) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,946,400 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($547,500). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $403k
What Mastervoices Inc does
Mission
To spark greater human connection through musical storytelling, with professional performances that bring our diverse volunteer chorus together with world class artists for concerts that reflect the world around us and reimagine what the choral experience can be.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Fy25 marked our 83rd season. We presented three full-scale concerts across four performances, which played to 88% capacity and served over 5,000 artists and audience members. Concerts included the gershwin gem strike up the band, for which we created a new and streamlined script and score in partnership with the authors' estates; the nyc premiere of a contemporary opera, blind injustice, which told the true stories of six wrongly incarcerated individuals who served a combined 117 years in prison; and a free one-hour presentation of selections from johann sebastian bach's immortal b- minor mass, set to new text. Venues included carnegie hall, rose theater at jazz at lincoln center, and annunciation greek orthodox church sanctuary.
$1,273,147 spent$363,370 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,273,147.
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 2024 to 2025, from $671k to $461k (−31%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 18% · 2022 24% · 2023 11% · 2024 2% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of MASTERVOICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Jennifer Collins
Executive director
Board chair
Jan Constantine
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $145k → $484k.
8 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 MASTERVOICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 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
MASTERVOICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
39% 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 MASTERVOICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 46% · 2019 19% · 2020 40% · 2021 32% · 2022 21% · 2023 30% — 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
33% of MASTERVOICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
86% of MASTERVOICES INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
MASTERVOICES INC's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MASTERVOICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$75k
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 MASTERVOICES 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 MASTERVOICES 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 MASTERVOICES INC?
- MASTERVOICES INC (New York) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,946,400 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($547,500). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MASTERVOICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $2,946,400 in grants to MASTERVOICES INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MASTERVOICES INC?
- THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $547,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MASTERVOICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 73 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