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Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir
Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $888,762 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($373,365). 9 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
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $889k
- Net assets
- $769k
What Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir does
Mission
Our mission is to advance the choral arts through education, performance, and collaboration at the highest artistic level, fostering individual development and international relationships. We achieve this through (continued on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Since 1982, the internationally-acclaimed piedmont east bay children's choir (pebcc) has been offering children from throughout san francisco's east bay an outstanding program of choral training and performance. Pebcc enrolls approximately 375 children, ages 5-19, drawn from 90+ local schools and 23 area communities, including oakland, alameda, orinda, berkeley, lafayette, san leandro, el cerrito, and piedmont. Committed to equitable and inclusive access to programs, pebccs robust financial assistance program ensures all singers dedicated to the program can access classes, camps, and tours without financial hardship. Singers in the choir's comprehensive choral program progress through a series of school and community-based training choirs to professional-level performing groups.
$1,847,788 spentof which $147,943 as grants$1,593,635 earned by the program100% of program spendingPebcc collaborates with major bay area performing arts organizations including the san francisco and oakland symphonies.featured on the bay areas most prestigious concert series, the choirs have performed with artists as diverse as joyce didonato's eden project, the kronos quartet, the mark morris dance group, and the bare naked ladies. Under the artistic leadership of eric tuan, pebcc's vibrant legacy of commissioning new works has expanded its focus on amplifying diverse voices and highlighting social justice issues. The choir's annual concert schedule regularly features over 50 performances, divided among the various choirs.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,847,788.
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 2017 to 2018, from $855k to $1.5M (+79%).
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 17% · 2022 19% · 2023 9% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Keri Butkevich
Exec Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $72k → $135k.
8 of 19 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 Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir’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
Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 37% · 2019 70% · 2020 80% · 2021 67% · 2022 46% · 2023 38% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
87% of Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir'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 $113k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $775k 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
Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir has grown faster than half 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
Government funding Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$48k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir
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.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir: 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 Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir?
- Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $888,762 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($373,365). 9 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 Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $888,762 in grants to Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $373,365 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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