North Carolina · Nonprofit
RALEIGH CAMERATA
RALEIGH CAMERATA (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,270 to it, the largest being JOHN WILLIAM POPE FOUNDATION ($31,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $62k
- Net assets
- $25k
What Raleigh Camerata does
Mission
The purpose of the Raleigh Camerata is to cultivate, promote, foster, sponsor, and develop understanding, taste, and love of the musical arts and especially to promote interest in historically informed performance on period instruments within the central North Carolina area. The Raleigh Camerata is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. To this end, the organization shall at all times be operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
This first concert of the season was at Westwood Baptist Church and featured the never before recorded Grande Symphonie de Salon No. 2 by Anton Reicha, that was only recently discovered in 2017, and only recently made available; and the Octet in F major by Franz Schubert, which is rarely performed on period instruments. The Reicha Grande Symphonie is orchestrated for woodwind and string quartet plus double bass, and the Schubert is orchestrated for string quartet, plus double bass, clarinet, horn, and bassoon. We held this concert on Sunday October 5th, and this concert is always completely free to the public. Our Holiday House Concert was held at the home of Steve and Kristen Hess in Raleigh on December 13th. This concert featured soprano Salome Sandoval and bass Gary Poster singing advent, Christmas, and New Year's cantatas by Telemann, Graupner, J.S. Bach, and others. "Symphonies of Paris" took place on March 15th, 2026 at Hayes Barton United Methodist Church in Raleigh. Raleigh Camerata performed Haydn's Symphony in A major No. 87, Sergii Leontiev's Little Bachiana, and end with Reicha's Symphony in E-flat major Op 41. This performance was also the culmination performance for…
$57,030 spentof which $26,464 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $57,030.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2025, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2025, 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 2025 to 2026, from $12k to $25k (+105%).
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.
82% of RALEIGH CAMERATA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $16k.
From the IRS filings of RALEIGH CAMERATA’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
RALEIGH CAMERATA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 94% · 2021 56% · 2022 67% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of RALEIGH CAMERATA's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
RALEIGH CAMERATA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 710 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 710 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Government funding RALEIGH CAMERATA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 RALEIGH CAMERATA
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 RALEIGH CAMERATA: 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 RALEIGH CAMERATA?
- RALEIGH CAMERATA (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,270 to it, the largest being JOHN WILLIAM POPE FOUNDATION ($31,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RALEIGH CAMERATA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $62,270 in grants to RALEIGH CAMERATA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RALEIGH CAMERATA?
- JOHN WILLIAM POPE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RALEIGH CAMERATA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2025–2026), and the filings of 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing