Ohio · Nonprofit
MUSE CINCINNATI WOMENS CHOIR
MUSE CINCINNATI WOMENS CHOIR (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,304 to it, the largest being Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ($82,360). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $125k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $132k
- Net assets
- $76k
What Muse Cincinnati Womens Choir does
Mission
MUSE is an inclusive and feminist choral community advocating for peace and social justice. We unite our voices to raise awareness and inspire change in ourselves, our audiences, and our world through partnerships that honor the humanity and enduring spirit of all people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Concert Production
$103,724 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $103,724.
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 2020 to 2021, from $56k to $79k (+41%).
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 25% · 2022 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of MUSE CINCINNATI WOMENS CHOIR’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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.
Board chair
Charmaine Moore Kitsinis
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $15k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 MUSE CINCINNATI WOMENS CHOIR’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
MUSE CINCINNATI WOMENS CHOIR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 MUSE CINCINNATI WOMENS CHOIR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 94% · 2022 85% · 2023 66% — 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
99% of MUSE CINCINNATI WOMENS CHOIR's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MUSE CINCINNATI WOMENS CHOIR's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MUSE CINCINNATI WOMENS CHOIR
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 Ohio
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 MUSE CINCINNATI WOMENS CHOIR: 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 MUSE CINCINNATI WOMENS CHOIR?
- MUSE CINCINNATI WOMENS CHOIR (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,304 to it, the largest being Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ($82,360). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSE CINCINNATI WOMENS CHOIR have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $132,304 in grants to MUSE CINCINNATI WOMENS CHOIR, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSE CINCINNATI WOMENS CHOIR?
- Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts is the largest funder on record, with $82,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSE CINCINNATI WOMENS CHOIR find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 7 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