California · Nonprofit
San Jose Symphonic Choir
San Jose Symphonic Choir (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,113 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($49,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $207k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $112k
- Net assets
- $218k
What San Jose Symphonic Choir does
Mission
To enrich, educate, and entertain audiences; preserve and promote choral music of the highest quality; recruit vocal talent, develop musicianship, and cultivate the next generation of choral singers in the san jose area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Many of the wonderful performances are as follows. November 30, 2024, live concert performance: Leroy Kromm, Artistic Director conducting, with San Jose Baroque Orchestra, Felix Mendelssohns, Elijah; Campbell United Methodist Church, Campbell. December 2, 2024: annual You-Sing-It Messiah, live, Leroy Kromm, Artistic Director leading audience in highlights of Handels Messiah, accompanied by the San Jose Baroque Orchestra; carols in the lobby performed by special guests Vivace Youth Chorus of San Jose; Hammer Theatre, San Jose. December 15, 2024 Community Outreach: Live caroling for residents of Merrill Gardens and Oakmont Assisted Living facilities, both in San Jose. December 16, 2024, live concert performance: Season of Hope benefit concert, Leroy Kromm, Artistic Director, conducting carols from around the world, Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph, San Jose. April 13, 2025 live concert performance: Leroy Kromm, Artistic Director conducting, with San Jose Baroque Orchestra, J.S. Bach B-Minor Mass; Campbell United Methodist Church, Campbell. June 6, 2025, live concert performance: Leroy Kromm, Artistic Director and Maestro Anthony Quartuccio conducting, Vaughan Williams, Serenade To…
$156,024 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $156,024.
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.
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 $160k to $218k (+36%).
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: 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $26k → $13k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 Jose Symphonic 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
San Jose Symphonic Choir leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 San Jose Symphonic Choir.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 83% · 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
90% of San Jose Symphonic 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 $11k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like San Jose Symphonic 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 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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for San Jose Symphonic 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 San Jose Symphonic Choir?
- San Jose Symphonic Choir (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,113 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($49,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does San Jose Symphonic Choir have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $112,113 in grants to San Jose Symphonic Choir, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of San Jose Symphonic Choir?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $49,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like San Jose Symphonic Choir 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 7 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