Tennessee · Nonprofit
Memphis Choralarts
Memphis Choralarts (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,420 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($35,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $61k
- Net assets
- $29k
What Memphis Choralarts does
Mission
The singers of the ensembles of Memphis ChoralArts are musicians as diverse as the Memphis community we represent. We are joined together to understand and perform great choral literature from masterworks of previous centuries to contemporary works. Our goal is to provide the best possible musical experience for our members and to present performances of the highest quality to our audiences. We seek to partner with other arts and service organizations in the Greater Memphis Area when the presentation of compatible themes can enrich enlarge and engage our shared audiences. Memphis ChoralArts remains committed to the goal of Sing for Life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Closing the season the 14th Annual Christmas with Memphis ChoralArts took place at St. Peters Catholic Church in downtown Memphis. This beloved holiday tradition titled Balad of the Brown King featured the underperformed work Ballad of the Brown King with music by Margaret Bonds and lyrics by Langston Hughes. All four chorales joined together for this concert with singers totaling approximately 75 and an audience of approximately 400 people.
$15,824 spentof which $2,150 as grants29% of program spendingMemphis ChoralArts presented its Spring Concert For the Beauty of the Earth in April. This concert featured all four chorales of Memphis ChoralArts. It was a tribute to Earth Day and featured songs that celebrated the Beauty of the Earth culminating with the title piece arranged by John Rutter.
$14,129 spent26% of program spendingMemphis ChoralArts presented its Fall Concert Long Long Ago in October. This concert featured all four chorales of Memphis ChoralArts. It celebrated American Folk music and featured the title piece arranged by Dan Forrest.
$12,724 spent23% of program spendingSpring 2025 Memphis Childrens Chorale and Memphis Youth Chorale Concert
$1,347 spent2% of program spendingIn February the Memphis Mens Chorale of Memphis ChoralArts presented Let All Men Sing: An American Voice. This concert was a collaboration between two of Memphis premiere community ensembles the Memphis Mens Chorale of Memphis ChoralArts and Memphis Wind Symphony. The Memphis Mens Chorale Director and Assistant Director of MCA Adrian Maclin and MCAs Artistic Director Joseph Powell worked directly with Barry Trobaugh director of the Memphis Wind Symphony in the design and execution of the artistic aspects of the project. This concert featured The Testament of Freedom by Randall Thompson a setting of passages from the writings of Thomas Jefferson.
$10,816 spentof which $2,500 as grants20% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $54,840.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $37k to $29k (−22%).
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.
90% of Memphis Choralarts’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $8k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 Memphis Choralarts’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
Memphis Choralarts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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
100% 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 Memphis Choralarts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
57% of Memphis Choralarts's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $26k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Memphis Choralarts's revenue fell 37% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Tennessee
Nationally
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Memphis Choralarts: 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 Memphis Choralarts?
- Memphis Choralarts (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,420 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($35,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Memphis Choralarts have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $61,420 in grants to Memphis Choralarts, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Memphis Choralarts?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Memphis Choralarts find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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