New York · Nonprofit
New York City Master Chorale Inc
New York City Master Chorale Inc (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,100 to it, the largest being Teel Family Foundation ($145,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $127k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $208k
- Net assets
- $59k
What New York City Master Chorale Inc does
Mission
The mission of the New York City Master Chorale is to connect people through choral music by presenting concerts of the highest caliber inspired by the distinct energy diversity and talent of New York City while fostering artistic collaboration and building an inclusive member community. The Chorale seeks to engage and inspire audiences across all ages and backgrounds through its commitment to innovative programming from a diverse repertoire including newly commissioned works and partnerships with artists and organizations who share the choirs vision as well as bringing music into the community through our outreach and education programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
To connect people through Choral Music by presenting high-quality concerts inspired by the distinct energy diversity and talent of New York City. The Chorale seeks to engage and inspire audiences of all ages backgrounds and musical experience by performing a challenging repertoire or traditional and contemporary works working in collaboration with other artists and organizations who share our vision and bringing our music into the community through our outreach and education programs
$59,815 spent98% of program spendingProviding members with dues exemptions and scores for performances. Dedication to the art of choral singing is the reason for the organizations exempt status
$1,376 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $61,191.
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 2021 to 2022, from $43k to $75k (+73%).
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 New York City Master Chorale Inc’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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Sara Yood
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $39k → $25k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 New York City Master Chorale Inc’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
New York City Master Chorale Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 57% · 2019 58% · 2020 97% · 2021 91% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
New York City Master Chorale Inc draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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
New York City Master Chorale Inc receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $208k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like New York City Master Chorale 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.
Public support
99%
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 New York City Master Chorale 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 New York City Master Chorale Inc?
- New York City Master Chorale Inc (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,100 to it, the largest being Teel Family Foundation ($145,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does New York City Master Chorale Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $208,100 in grants to New York City Master Chorale Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New York City Master Chorale Inc?
- Teel Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New York City Master Chorale 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 5 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