Oregon · Nonprofit
Portland Symphonic Choir
Portland Symphonic Choir (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $223,853 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($130,667). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $131k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $224k
- Net assets
- $140k
What Portland Symphonic Choir does
Mission
Portland Symphonic Choir's mission is to sing choral masterworks with excellence and passion, and to engage, educate, and inspire its members and the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Summer sings create connections through audience participation in three free sing-along educational audience participatory concerts in July and August. This year, Summer Sings New Works session inspired a recording concert and project promoting new works. Over 100 members took part in the recording project which featured seven new works from five living composers. Almost 400 audience members attended the July 2024 Summer Sing, and almost 100 attended the Recording Concert and talkback in June of 2025.
$15,372 spent$11,235 earned by the program45% of program spendingWinterson is PSCs annual winter holiday concert, featuring music from around the world. Decembers concert welcomed guest performers from Tualatin High School, Jefferson High School, and Waldorf School. We performed in front of 445 ticketed attendees, our largest Wintersong since before the pandemic.
$14,871 spent$10,921 earned by the program43% of program spendingAmadeus with the Oregon Symphony Orchesta represented PSCs first collaboration with OSO since 2017. We performed on two nights to sold- out audiences (2,000 people) in the Arlene Schnitzer Auditorium.
$4,000 spent$7,380 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $34,243.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $104k to $135k (+30%).
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 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 17% · 2022 9% · 2023 13% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Trisha Williams
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $34k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 Portland Symphonic 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
Portland Symphonic Choir leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
59% 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 Portland Symphonic Choir.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 95% · 2019 37% · 2020 45% · 2021 60% · 2022 62% · 2023 87% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of Portland Symphonic Choir's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
59% of Portland Symphonic 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 $93k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $131k 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.
Government funding Portland Symphonic Choir receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$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 Portland Symphonic 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 Portland Symphonic 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 Portland Symphonic Choir?
- Portland Symphonic Choir (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $223,853 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($130,667). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Portland Symphonic Choir have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $223,853 in grants to Portland Symphonic Choir, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Portland Symphonic Choir?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $130,667 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Portland Symphonic Choir find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 9 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