California · Nonprofit
Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra
Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,437 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($163,646). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $604k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $185k
- Net assets
- $412k
What Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra does
Mission
To provide world-class choral orchestral music for the people of the Greater Sacramento region and beyond.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
KITCHEN MART HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS Dec. 14, 2024 Memorial Auditorium, 1515 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95814Donald Kendrick, ConductorHeidi Moss Soprano HeadlinerThis annual Christmas program has become an amazing downtown family holiday tradition in Sacramento in the Grande Dame of performing arts venues Memorial Auditorium in the heart of Sacramento.Approximate 1800 enthusiastic attendees joined us to celebrate the season. The 2.5 hour concert featured a candlelit procession, and audience singalong and new and familiar choral orchestral holiday songs. Attendees also purchased about 100 of our Christmas CDs and enjoyed the Christmas crafts featured in the lobby. A female barbershop quartet regaled the attendees as they arrived and at intermission too.We offered 20 comp tickets for Veterans as Memorial Auditorium was dedicated to Veterans of all wars back in 1926.Kitchen Mart (Dave Hollars, CEO) had naming rights for this amazing performance and supported us to make this downtown December adventure happen.
$135,000 spent$72,828 earned by the program28% of program spendingA Lerner & Loewe Celebration May 3, 2025 SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center 1301 L Street, Sacramento, CA 95814While the SCSOs mission is to provide world-class choral orchestral music to families in the Sacramento region and beyond, we are, now and then, delighted to feature broadway music in our concerts.The delightful matinee brough back a tone of memories for the approximate 1700 people who attended the concert. The concert saluted the immortal shows of Camelot, Paint Your Wagon, Gigi, Brigadoon and My Fair Lady.The audience even got to sing along on My Fair Ladys I Could Have Danced All NightDonald Kendrick once again conducted our chorus and orchestra. This lively performance featured soloists: Leslie Katter, Soprano Deborah Rosengaus, Mezzo, Noel Anthony Escobar, Tenor and Eugene Brancoveanu (a last-minute replacement) We had a well-attended (approximately 250) post-concert reception in the lobby to meet the artists. Lots of fun photos and a chance to continue connecting with our constituents.
$121,540 spent$46,753 earned by the program25% of program spendingOther programs
$89,080 spent$41,921 earned by the program19% of program spendingEuropean Masterworks Creation Mass (Haydn) March 1, 2025 Donald Kendrick conducted this performance for our large SCSO Chorus & Orchestra, featuring classical music by Franz Josef Haydn, Samuel Barber and Morten Lauridsen.The concert was held at the recently renovated SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center, 1301 L Street, in Sacramento, 95814.The performance drew some 1400 people who were stirred by the matinees powerful repertoire. Projected supertitle translations and great program notes enhanced the audiences enjoyment of this event. A free post-concert reception in the lobby gave our attendees the opportunity to meet our performers, breaking down barriers to classical music. The performance featured 4 professional soloists with our chorus & orchestra:Jana McIntyre Soprano Sarah Couden, Mezzo, Salvatore Atti, Tenor, David Soar, BassThe SCSO was delighted to offer 100 free tickets for Veterans and their families via Vettix. Its an amazing program.
$87,131 spent$38,527 earned by the program18% of program spending"Stained Glass" concert - "The French School".Saturday, October 19, 2024. This opening concert of the SCSO's 24th Season featured the following music:Te Deum - Jean-Baptiste LullyRequiem - Gabriel FaurRomance - Camille Saint-Sans Some 500 concert attendees enjoyed a complete evening of French Music with soloists:Sarah Sy - SopranoJulie MIller - MezzoSalvatore Atti - TenorJoshua Simka - TenorChris Mackey - Bass Organist Ryan Enright, Harpist Beverly Wesner-Hoehn and the SCSO Chamber Ensemble accompanied the large SCSO Chorus on the SCSO's inaugural concert of Season 24.
$48,434 spent$18,894 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $481,185.
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 2020 to 2021, from $294k to $455k (+55%).
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 4% · 2021 19% · 2022 1% · 2023 3% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
James McCormick
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $40k → $33k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra’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
Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
96% 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 Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 73% · 2023 83% — 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
96% of Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $178k 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
Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra's revenue fell 38% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra: 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 Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra?
- Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,437 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($163,646). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $185,437 in grants to Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra?
- Sacramento Region Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $163,646 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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