Minnesota · Nonprofit
SAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR
SAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,879 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($342,245). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $299k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $501k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Saint Johns Boys Choir does
Mission
The st. John's boys' choir offers an enriching experience in music education with an emphasis in vocal music, as well as the socializing experiences of shared enterprise, fellowship, cultural awareness, and touring for boys ages 8-15. The choir promotes vocal music education in central minnesota and offers the unique experience of a well-trained boys' choir to its audiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The st. John's boys' choir was founded in 1981 by brother paul richards and the monks of st. John's abbey. The choir was formed to give boys of central minnesota the opportunity to sing with a well trained boys' choir and to experience touring and the benefits of learning about music with other boys who share a common interest. Since that time the choir has grown to include four divisions: the varsity choir, junior varsity choir, the training choir, and the nova voce choir. On may 12, 1993, the choir became self-incorporated and formed a board of directors which serves as the governing body. At the present time the organization has 6 employees, 1 full-time and 5 part-time. The st. John's boys' choir offers an enriching experience in music education with an emphasis in vocal music, as well as the socializing experience of shared enterprise, cultural awareness, and touring for boys ages 8-15. The choir promotes vocal music education in central minnesota and offers the unique experience of a well trained boys' choir to its audience. The st. John's boys' choir admits boys of all races, color, creed, and economic background.at the present time there are seventy-eight choir members…
$232,149 spent$27,501 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $232,149.
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 2023 to 2024, from $271k to $125k (−54%).
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: 2017 11% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 17% · 2021 30% · 2022 8% · 2023 13% · 2024 13% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of SAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Denise Fandel
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $91k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 SAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR’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
SAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 SAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 86% · 2023 78% — 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
68% of SAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR'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 $158k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $343k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $501k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 SAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR: 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 SAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR?
- SAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,879 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($342,245). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $500,879 in grants to SAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR?
- COMMUNITYGIVING is the largest funder on record, with $342,245 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 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