California · Nonprofit
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 Schwab Charitable Fund ($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.
Against its field
Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir has grown faster than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Morris Stulsaft Foundationshared funderslocal
- Chorus Americaportfolio match
- The Karl and Alice Ruppenthal Foundation For The Artsportfolio match
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.
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 (64% 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
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 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Morris Stulsaft Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · funds 129 organizations near you
- Chorus Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Karl and Alice Ruppenthal Foundation For The Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ross McKee Foundation for the Musical Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Svane Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elaine & Richard Fohr Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Silicon Valley Createsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colburn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E Nakamichi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carol Franc Buck Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phyllis C Wattis Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 46 organizations that share your funders · funds 108 organizations near you
- Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 41 organizations that share your funders · funds 112 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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 Schwab Charitable Fund ($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?
- Schwab Charitable Fund 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.
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 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing