California · Nonprofit
San Francisco Classical Voice
San Francisco Classical Voice (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,175 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($260,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $550k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $338k
- Net assets
- $567k
What San Francisco Classical Voice does
Mission
SFCV's mission is to engage audiences, artists, and arts organizations, and forge meaningful connections through music journalism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
San Francisco Classical Voice engages audiences for classical music primarily through our dynamic, multipurpose website (http:/sfcv.org). We convene a large audience throughout the entire San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles as well as national opinion leaders, experts, and fans.
$316,097 spent80% of program spendingIn-Kind Revenue and ExpensesDuring the fiscal year ended August 31, 2022, San Francisco Classical Voice was the recipient of a substantial amount of in-kind contributions. San Francisco Classical Voice has an agreement with Google, Inc. whereby the organization receives in-kind grants and ad usage from the Google Adwords program.
$78,167 spent$78,167 earned by the program20% of program spendingWe publish 400 separate pieces of original content on music (mainly, but not exclusively classical) by first-rank professional writers.Content is directed at the widest possible audience, ranging from newcomers, students, and casual listeners to experts and arts-focused readers. Founded in 1998, SFCV was one of the first, and remains one of the largest and most successful sites devoted to arts journalism.
SFCV maintains extensive searchable and sortable databases:* Event Calendar: This is an online database that lists almost every classical music event in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.* Composers Database: a multimedia database of composer biographies that is regularly accessed by students of all levels.* Music Teacher Database: a searchable, sortable database of music teachers.* Organizations Database: lists of music organizations and educational organizations.* Musicians Database: individual pages for musicians and local groups,and much more.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $394,264.
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 2019 to 2020, from $402k to $640k (+59%).
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: 2021 22% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of San Francisco Classical Voice’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. 3 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
Claudia Campazzo
Exec Director
Board chair
Kenneth DeJarnette
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $62.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 San Francisco Classical Voice’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
San Francisco Classical Voice leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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 San Francisco Classical Voice's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k 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
San Francisco Classical Voice holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like San Francisco Classical Voice
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 San Francisco Classical Voice: 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 San Francisco Classical Voice?
- San Francisco Classical Voice (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,175 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($260,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does San Francisco Classical Voice have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $338,175 in grants to San Francisco Classical Voice, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of San Francisco Classical Voice?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $260,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like San Francisco Classical Voice 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.
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 6 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