Washington · Nonprofit
ORCHESTRA SEATTLE - SEATTLE CHAMBER SINGER
ORCHESTRA SEATTLE - SEATTLE CHAMBER SINGER (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,336 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($81,910). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $278k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $151k
- Net assets
- $455k
What Orchestra Seattle - Seattle Chamber Singer does
Mission
The mission of Orchestra Seattle | Seattle Chamber Singers is to enrich the quality of life in the Pacific Northwest through performance of great orchestral and choral literature; to introduce Northwest audiences to rarely heard works of the baroque, classical, romantic and modern periods.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Performance. OSSCS produced live concert performances of classical music (in-person and streaming online) serving 2,000+ patrons, including 200+ free tickets--many of those to youth, ages 7 - 17, and free streaming content to viewers across the US.
$119,486 spent$53,327 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $119,486.
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 2022 to 2023, from $357k to $404k (+13%).
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: 2022 22% · 2023 22% · 2024 6% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Stephen Hegg
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $33k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 ORCHESTRA SEATTLE - SEATTLE CHAMBER SINGER’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
ORCHESTRA SEATTLE - SEATTLE CHAMBER SINGER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 ORCHESTRA SEATTLE - SEATTLE CHAMBER SINGER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 68% · 2023 36% — 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
87% of ORCHESTRA SEATTLE - SEATTLE CHAMBER SINGER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $20k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $131k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like ORCHESTRA SEATTLE - SEATTLE CHAMBER SINGER
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 ORCHESTRA SEATTLE - SEATTLE CHAMBER SINGER: 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 ORCHESTRA SEATTLE - SEATTLE CHAMBER SINGER?
- ORCHESTRA SEATTLE - SEATTLE CHAMBER SINGER (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,336 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($81,910). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ORCHESTRA SEATTLE - SEATTLE CHAMBER SINGER have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $151,336 in grants to ORCHESTRA SEATTLE - SEATTLE CHAMBER SINGER, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORCHESTRA SEATTLE - SEATTLE CHAMBER SINGER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $81,910 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORCHESTRA SEATTLE - SEATTLE CHAMBER SINGER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 6 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