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Santa Cruz Chamber Players

Santa Cruz Chamber Players (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,500 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($10,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$1.1M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$1.1M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Santa Cruz Chamber Players does

Mission

To promote live chamber music and to provide performance opportunities for area musicians. To provide opportunities to young musicians through coaching and workshops, and to expose them to world-class chamber ensembles.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promoted art of chamber music through live performances by musicians of local community.

    $41,094 spent$19,791 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $41,094.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($47k) Expenses 100 ($35k) Net assets 100 ($51k)2023 Revenue 103 ($48k) Expenses 116 ($41k) Net assets 114 ($58k)2024 Revenue 146 ($68k) Expenses 105 ($37k) Net assets 169 ($86k)2025 Revenue 85 ($40k) Expenses 123 ($43k) Net assets 162 ($83k)2026 Revenue 2310 ($1.1M) Expenses 117 ($41k) Net assets 2189 ($1.1M)
20222023202420252026
Revenue (2310)Expenses (117)Net assets (2189)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $83k to $1.1M (+1253%).

$54k
$58k
$86k
$83k
$1.1M
20222023202420252026
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’22
$7k
’23
$31k
’24
−$4k
’25
$1.0M
’26
321
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.

Funder
'21
'22
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Santa Cruz Chamber Players’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.

Where its funders are

100% of Santa Cruz Chamber Players's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like Santa Cruz Chamber Players

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Santa Cruz Chamber Players: 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 Santa Cruz Chamber Players?
Santa Cruz Chamber Players (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,500 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($10,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Santa Cruz Chamber Players have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,500 in grants to Santa Cruz Chamber Players, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Santa Cruz Chamber Players?
ARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $10,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Santa Cruz Chamber Players 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 FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), and the filings of 1 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