Minnesota · Nonprofit
ORATORIO SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA
ORATORIO SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being The Rum Fund ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $140k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $77k
What Oratorio Society of Minnesota does
Mission
Performance and Promotion of Choral Music
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Oratorio Society's 90 singers performed A Passion For The Planet, a new oratorio by Geoffrey Hudson, with professional orchestra and soloists on Nov. 16 & 17, 2024. A childrens' choir Allegro Choral Academy also joined for this concert. Audience was 510 people. The Oratorio Society's 100 singers performed The Choral Legacy of Ralph Vaughan Williams with professional orchestra and soloists on April 26, 2025. Pieces performed included O Clap Your Hands, Benedicite, Dona Nobis Pacem, and The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune with audience singing along with the chorus. Audience was 397 people.
$73,340 spent48% of program spendingA Summer Chorus concert was performed on August 3, 2024 to promote life-long singing. 115 singers of all ages joined the chorus without audition, for 3 weeks of rehearsals and performance of The Artistry of Genius: A Landmark Revival of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Masterworks for Chorus and Orchestra. Three restored works were performed, including Kubla Khan, Meg Blane, and The Atonement. Some of these works had not been performed since the early 1900s. Two-time Grammy winner Dashon Burton and other professional soloists and a 45-piece orchestra performed with the chorus. Audience was over 300 people. A second Summer Chorus concert was performed during the same fiscal year on July 26, 2025. 150 singers joined the chorus without audition, for 3 weeks of rehearsals and performance of Regards to Broadway: The Music of Bernstein and Sondheim. A professional pit band and professional soloists joined the chorus to perform music from musicals by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim including West Side Story, On the Town, Sweeney Todd, Candide, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park With George, and others. Audience was 818 people.
$78,595 spent52% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $151,935.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $97k to $75k (−22%).
How it's funded, over time
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Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $1k.
From the IRS filings of ORATORIO SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA’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 ORATORIO SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ORATORIO SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA?
- ORATORIO SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being The Rum Fund ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORATORIO SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to ORATORIO SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORATORIO SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA?
- The Rum Fund is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORATORIO SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2021–2025), 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