Illinois · Nonprofit
MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE
MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE (Illinois) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,058,733 to it, the largest being THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION ($2,075,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Music of the Baroque does
Mission
Music of the Baroque is a professional orchestra and chorus excelling in the performance of works from the 18th century and before. The organization also educates 2,900 chicago public school students each year through its 'strong voices' singing program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Under the direction of internationally acclaimed british conductor dame jane glover, Music of the Baroque's professional chorus and orchestra is one of the leading ensembles in the country devoted to the performance of works from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Music of the Baroque continued full-time live programming of choral and orchestral concerts with works by bach, haydn, handel, mozart, and others. Lesser-known works are also featured as Music of the Baroque seeks to expand the awareness of and appreciation for works from the renaissance, baroque, and early classical periods. Devoted to expanding its audience and its reach to a wider, more diverse population, Music of the Baroque presented 18 performances of 8 distinct programs as well as various community concerts and events to a total audience of over 20,000 people. Many thousands more enjoyed concerts streaming on demand and various free videos of music, interviews and events online.community collaborations expanded our work to reach new audiences, including free performances at the kehrein center for the arts, national museum of mexican art, and a new concert, "the chicago water music," performed on the chicago…
$2,518,415 spent$888,274 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,518,415.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $4.3M to $6.0M (+38%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 23% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE’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 7 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
Declan Mcgovern
Executive director
Board chair
Robert D Hevey Jr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $157k → $628k.
9 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 24% · 2019 24% · 2020 49% · 2021 60% · 2022 54% · 2023 36% — 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
47% of MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE'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
96% of MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE: 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 MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE?
- MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE (Illinois) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,058,733 to it, the largest being THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION ($2,075,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $6,058,733 in grants to MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE?
- THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,075,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 50 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