California · Nonprofit
SAN LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE
SAN LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,592 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($150,650). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $300k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $202k
- Net assets
- $556k
What San Luis Obispo Master Chorale does
Mission
San Luis Obispo Master Chorale is dedicated to the presentation of major works for chorus and orchestra through public performances and educational programs
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The group produced three (3) large-scale concert series showcasing a choir of 100+ voices and a 40 to 50-piece orchestra. The fall 2023 concert series featured the music of mozart and contemporary composer arvo part. A december 2023 holiday concert featured selections from handel's messiah as well as seasonal short works and showcased the forbes pipe organ. The spring 2024 concert was a voices-only production of composer sergei rachmaninoff's all-night vigil in russian. Free-to-the-public educational events conducted by national experts accompanied the fall & spring concerts.
$163,979 spent$51,692 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $163,979.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $298k to $409k (+37%).
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: 2022 2% · 2023 26% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of SAN LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Katelyn Schiavone
Executive director (non-voting)
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 $3k → $43k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE’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 LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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
75% 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 LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 76% · 2020 79% · 2021 79% · 2022 80% · 2023 94% — 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
75% of SAN LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE'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 $51k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $151k 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
SAN LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE runs a healthier operating margin 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 LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE: 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 LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE?
- SAN LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,592 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($150,650). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAN LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $201,592 in grants to SAN LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 4 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