California · Nonprofit
Musica Vitale
Musica Vitale (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200 to it, the largest being DIANNE & THOMAS LOOKABAUGH FOUNDATION ($200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $200
- Net assets
- $21k
What Musica Vitale does
Mission
Musica Vitale is a professional ensemble presenting a cappella chamber works of Western European and Slavic origin from the last 300 years. The ensembles mission is to revive and rediscover neglected repertoire of the Classical, Romantic, and post-Romantic eras, maintaining the highest artistic standards, preserving the heritage of vocal chamber music, and bringing enrichment to the community through public performances.Vitale--or vital, of life--translates into the choices of the ensembles repertoire, emphasizing the works of Romantic and Contemporary periods of Music History, emotionally open and charged with expression. An ensemble of some of San Diego's finest singers offers an audible feast of choral colors and timbres, equally successful in singing with delicacy and finesse as in Robert Schumanns Romanzen und Balladen, and with the richness and warmth of Sergey Rachmaninovs Vespers.Musica Vitale has been bringing music to life since 2005, when a group of professional singers from
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025 Musica Vitale and Crown City Chorale performed thirteen public performances and three school programs.March 11, 2025, San Diego Public Library: Celebrating Women in the Arts Works of women composers, from Hildegard Von Bingen to contemporary Lori Laitman were performed by soloists and the ensemble: four Musica Vitale singers, violinist, and pianist. A lecturer introduced each piece and provided background information. This performance was free to public and was attended by 50 people.April 23, 2025, Resurrection Lutheran Church, Coronado: For the Beauty of the EarthCrown City Chorale's Spring concert focused on nature and environment-centered songs written by American and Canadian composers. A Dark Sky Society representative provided a short lecture about light pollution and provided materials about their organization. 80 people attended this performance.April 28, 2025, Spreckels Park, Coronado: Annual Flower ShowCrown City Chorale sang popular songs for an afternoon program at this annual community event. May 9, 2025, St. Paul's Cathedral, San Diego: Music of the AmericasMiramar College Choir, Crown City Chorale, and Ghukasyan Orchestra collaborated to perform compositions…
$40,153 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,153.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $32k to $12k (−63%).
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.
81% of Musica Vitale’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 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Catherine Marshall
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Musica Vitale’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Musica Vitale's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
Against its field
Musica Vitale runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Musica Vitale
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 California
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Musica Vitale: 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 Musica Vitale?
- Musica Vitale (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200 to it, the largest being DIANNE & THOMAS LOOKABAUGH FOUNDATION ($200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Musica Vitale have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $200 in grants to Musica Vitale.
- Who is the largest funder of Musica Vitale?
- DIANNE & THOMAS LOOKABAUGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Musica Vitale 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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