Washington · Nonprofit
PUGET SOUNDWORKS
PUGET SOUNDWORKS (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,119 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $233k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $127k
- Net assets
- $146k
What Puget Soundworks does
Mission
Puget Soundworks is an all-gender, LGBTQIA+ centered community chorus serving the Puget Sound region. We are here to make the world a kinder, more inclusive place, one song at a time.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mainstage Choral Productions: In fiscal year 2024-2025, Puget Soundworks presented 2 mainstage choral productions: Happy Dolly Days and The Beat Goes On. For Happy Dolly Days we performed four live performances, and for The Beat Goes On we performed 3 live performances. Both shows also were offered for online viewing. Combined, the two concerts featured 178 singers, involved over 100 volunteers, and reached 1,257 audience members. We were able to provide no-questions-asked dues waivers to over 30% of our singers and free or reduced community admission to 15% of our live performance audiences. Through song, dance, and dynamic production elements, Happy Dolly Days celebrated the musical legacy of LGBTQIA+ ally and icon Dolly Parton, with a special focus on LGBQTIA+ and BIPOC artists that influenced and were influenced by her career. The Beat Goes On also highlighted music by LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC artists, and explored themes of strength, resilience, legacy, and meaning-making through music. It too included production elements such as a live band, lighting, costumes, poetry, and dance. As a tribute to Dolly Parton's focus on literacy and reading, Puget Soundworks invited four community…
$116,816 spent$32,235 earned by the program90% of program spendingGALA Chorus Festival: GALA Chorus Festival is a quadrennial international gathering of LGBTQ+ choruses. Programming includes performances by participating ensembles, professional artistic and leadership education opportunities, and collaborative and networking events. Puget Soundworks is a member of GALA Choruses and makes every effort to financially support as many attendees as possible from our organization. In 2024, Puget Soundworks sent nearly 100 singers and staff to the Festival in Minneapolis, providing financial assistance for airfare to 11 singers and lodging for 14 singers. The representing chorus members performed a select repertoire for GALA Festival attendees, opted to join in a number of additional specialized choruses, attended multiple organizational and singer education workshops, and had the opportunity to network with LGBTQIA+ musicians from around the world.
$11,113 spentof which $7,989 as grants9% of program spendingPride Programming: Puget Soundworks participates annually in Pride events around the Seattle area. In 2025, Puget Soundworks centered their engagement around Trans Pride, organized by the Gender Justice League. Nearly 60 singers performed on stage to a large crowd of attendees, focusing on repertoire of queer and trans joy and resilience. Puget Soundworks also reserved a half-table at the festival, staffed by volunteers throughout the event to share information about our chorus and organization. Puget Soundworks also participated in the Seattle Pride Parade in 2025, bringing out a large and enthusiastic group of singers and volunteers to march, hand out treats and information cards to audiences, and to sing along the route. A truck and trailer were rented to ensure accessibility for all participants.
$2,326 spent2% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $130,255.
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. 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 2024 to 2025, from $75k to $150k (+100%).
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: 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of PUGET SOUNDWORKS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Katherine Huisentruit
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $23k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 PUGET SOUNDWORKS’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
PUGET SOUNDWORKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 PUGET SOUNDWORKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 78% · 2021 96% · 2022 95% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of PUGET SOUNDWORKS's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PUGET SOUNDWORKS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PUGET SOUNDWORKS
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 PUGET SOUNDWORKS: 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 PUGET SOUNDWORKS?
- PUGET SOUNDWORKS (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,119 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUGET SOUNDWORKS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $127,119 in grants to PUGET SOUNDWORKS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUGET SOUNDWORKS?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUGET SOUNDWORKS 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 2019–2025), 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