California · Nonprofit
RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS
RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,139,894 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($283,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Ragazzi Boys Chorus does
Mission
Ragazzis mission is to: * Perform the best traditional and innovative choral literature. * Provide musical training - developing skills in ear training and sight singing, an understanding of theory, and an appreciation of music and the arts in general. * Offer all boys the opportunity for personal, intellectual and artistic growth, fostering such qualities as self-confidence, cooperation, leadership, sensitivity and a commitment to excellence. * Enrich the community through its gift of music, and its education of boys to be contributing members of society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
TOURINGRagazzi regularly tours in the United States and abroad to develop Ragazzi's performance skills and reputation for excellence. Ragazzi has toured internationally to Canada (1990, 2008, 2010 and 2018), Russia (1992 and 2017), Cuba (2011), Eastern Europe (1995 and 2017), Italy (1998 and 2022), Germany & Czechia (2025), Japan (1999), the British Isles (2001), Spain and Portugal (2004), Australia and New Zealand (2007 and 2024), South Africa (2011), Mexico (2019), and South Korea (2013). These tours demonstrate that Ragazzi's performances are far reaching. The intensity of the schedule enhances the quality of our programs with numerous performance practices.
$729,289 spent$657,160 earned by the program41% of program spendingCHORAL TRAININGOne of the largest boys choruses in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ragazzi provides outstanding musical training to boys who love to sing.Choral training with Ragazzi builds a boy's self-confidence and teaches him leadership and perseverance in a spirit of community and cooperation. Through training in sight-reading, vocal development, music theory and stage presence, Ragazzi prepares boys to be accomplished performers of outstanding musical works representing our diverse cultural heritage.
$588,747 spentof which $108,286 as grants$623,871 earned by the program33% of program spendingSUMMER MUSIC CAMPRagazzi is committed to excellence in music and all the good things that brings to our young artists and society's next generation. To that end, Ragazzi hosts music camps in order to challenge participants and give them the tools and the freedom to imagine who they might become. Camps run for 10 days and nights and include intensive training in vocal technique, ensemble singing, performance practices, music theory and movement/dance.
$276,210 spent$400,619 earned by the program16% of program spendingGIGS AND CONCERTSThe chorus gives concerts throughout the Bay Area including Belmont, Redwood City, Palo Alto, Portola Valley, San Carlos, San Francisco, and San Mateo. Concerts present accomplished musical productions to a wide range of audiences. Gigs (private performances such as weddings, etc.) are performed for a fee or, on some occassions, are provided pro-bono for outreach purposes (such as at retirement homes).COLLABORATIONSRagazzi collaborates with other arts organizations, such as West Bay Opera, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Symphony, and others. These collaborations extend the range of performance possibilities for the boys, introducing them to new audience and exposing them to professional level standards.
$183,500 spent$195,618 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,777,746.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.7M to $2.4M (+45%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 15% · 2022 9% · 2023 6% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS’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. 0 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
Kent Jue
Exec Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $31k → $101k.
11 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS’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
RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
68% 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 RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 47% · 2019 39% · 2020 27% · 2021 34% · 2022 33% · 2023 25% — 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
38% of RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
67% of RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS'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 $375k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $765k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS runs a healthier operating margin 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
Organizations like RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS: 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 RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS?
- RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,139,894 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($283,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,139,894 in grants to RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $283,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS 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 22 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