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Sacramento Master Singers

Sacramento Master Singers (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,845 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($53,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$148k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$94k
Net assets
$181k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Sacramento Master Singers does

Mission

To provide audiences with world-class concerts that engage and inspire to offer and opportunity to accomplished choral singers for musical growth personal fulfillment and fellowship and to ensure the advancement of the choral arts through outreach activities for youth.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. During the FY 2024-25 Sacramento Master Singers presented several concerts including: A Master Singers Christmas during the holiday season attended by 1,270 audience members; one concert of Christmas music called Jingle All the Way at McClatchy High School attended by 193 individuals: in March they presented Romantasy! attended by 394 individuals; and in May they presented Where the Light Begins attended by 395 individuals. In June and July 24 members of the Sacramento Master Singers embarked on a tour of Wales and England and gave 4 concerts while on the tour.

    $141,255 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $141,255.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($122k) Expenses 100 ($124k) Net assets 100 ($119)2018 Revenue 110 ($135k) Expenses 92 ($114k) Net assets 18149 ($22k)2019 Revenue 108 ($132k) Expenses 87 ($108k) Net assets 39439 ($47k)2020 Revenue 99 ($121k) Expenses 89 ($110k) Net assets 49642 ($59k)2021 Revenue 80 ($97k) Expenses 32 ($39k) Net assets 98540 ($117k)2022 Revenue 86 ($105k) Expenses 76 ($95k) Net assets 107392 ($128k)2023 Revenue 204 ($250k) Expenses 147 ($182k) Net assets 170636 ($203k)2024 Revenue 131 ($160k) Expenses 124 ($154k) Net assets 175548 ($209k)2025 Revenue 121 ($148k) Expenses 143 ($177k) Net assets 152217 ($181k)
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Revenue (121)Expenses (143)Net assets (152217)Peer revenue range

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 $140k to $390k (+178%).

$29k
$22k
$47k
$129k
$183k
$140k
$390k
$404k
$187k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

47% of Sacramento Master Singers’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1k
’17
$21k
’18
$24k
’19
$11k
’20
$58k
’21
$11k
’22
$69k
’23
$6k
’24
−$28k
’25
15
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $15k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
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total
funders
1
1
2
2
1
1
2
1

3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Master Singers’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 Master Singers leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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

100% 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 Master Singers.

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 55% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“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 Sacramento Master Singers'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Sacramento Master Singers's revenue grew 21% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sacramento Master Singers: 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 Master Singers?
Sacramento Master Singers (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,845 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($53,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Sacramento Master Singers have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $93,845 in grants to Sacramento Master Singers, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sacramento Master Singers?
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $53,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sacramento Master Singers 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 3 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