Washington · Nonprofit
Seattle Chamber Music Society Foundation
Seattle Chamber Music Society Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,400 to it, the largest being FRIDAY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Seattle Chamber Music Society Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Greater Seattle Chamber of Commercelocalportfolio match
- The Foster Foundationshared funders
- David and Amy Fulton Foundation % K & L Gatesportfolio match
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.
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.
84% of Seattle Chamber Music Society Foundation’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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $500.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 Seattle Chamber Music Society Foundation’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
Seattle Chamber Music Society Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 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 Seattle Chamber Music Society Foundation's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Greater Seattle Chamber of Commercelocalportfolio matchWA · funds 64 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Foster Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 29 organizations that share your funders
- David and Amy Fulton Foundation % K & L Gatesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ross McKee Foundation for the Musical Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neil Family Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Original Art Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scan Design Foundation by Inger & Jens Bruunportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Tyler Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Selinger-Shone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sage Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Artsfundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Janet Wright Ketcham Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Seattle Chamber Music Society Foundation
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Seattle Chamber Music Festival · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Seattle Chamber Music Society Foundation: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Seattle Chamber Music Society Foundation?
- Seattle Chamber Music Society Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,400 to it, the largest being FRIDAY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Seattle Chamber Music Society Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $128,400 in grants to Seattle Chamber Music Society Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Seattle Chamber Music Society Foundation?
- FRIDAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Seattle Chamber Music Society Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing