Washington · Nonprofit
Second City Chamber Series
Second City Chamber Series (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,758 to it, the largest being ELLIOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($40,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $63k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $104k
- Net assets
- $98k
What Second City Chamber Series does
Mission
The promotion and encouragement of chamber music in and around the city of Tacoma Washington
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Second City Chamber Series presented five 5 concerts thisseason. Venues included a public garden a local craft brewery,and university performing halls the latter in the two privateuniversities in the tacoma area. The music that was performedincluded baroque classical romantic and contempory styles.the programs celebrated composers who had anniversies of theirbirth during this season. One of the programs celebrated thegreat violinist jascha heifetz. The combinations of musiciansincluded piano trios string trios and violin and piano duos. In oneof the concerts the players were the best of the participants inthe second city young chambers players program and the seattlechamber music societys academy of chamber music. Our concertticket sales show that 280 people attended these concerts.
$0 spentThis seasons young chamber players program occurred duringthe first full week of july. It provides 5 full days of intensivestudy for advanced high school and middle school students. Atthe end of this week the students presented a concert for theirparents and community members. These students were coached bya resident ensemble of professional musicians who presenteddaily mini-concerts for the students. The other coaches werecollege students majoring in music covering the instrumentsthat were played by the young chamber players. The high schooland middle school students were accepted into the programafter they had applied to be in the program and completedqualifying auditions. Each student was placed in an appropriateensemble that was coached by its own advanced college studentsand members of the professional ensemble. The program served28 students from 15 different schools. The final concert waswell-attended. The best of the students formed a string quartetthat performed at the Second City Chamber Series fund-raiser the following spring.
$0 spentWe produced one special event for fund-raising that occurred atan elegant golf and county club in a small neighboring city thatis adjacent to tacoma. The event featured a string quartet thatincluded the best of students from our young chamber playersprogram. The golf club provided an appropiate event space,catered the event with delicious food and drink. The eventincluded a silent auction with a variety of items that ranged invalue from $150 to $500. All of the auction items were sold. Weused a raise-the-paddle process for cash gifts. The fund-raisereach year supports not only the concerts we produce but alsothe young chamber players program. Support comes throughticket sales auction item sales and cash donations. Fifty-fourpeople attended including the student musicians and fourstudent volunteers.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $36k to $87k (+139%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $6k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Second City Chamber Series’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
Second City Chamber Series leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 43% · 2019 59% · 2020 32% · 2021 49% · 2022 50% · 2023 72% — 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
Second City Chamber Series draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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.
Organizations like Second City Chamber Series
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Second City Chamber Series: 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 Second City Chamber Series?
- Second City Chamber Series (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,758 to it, the largest being ELLIOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($40,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Second City Chamber Series have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $103,758 in grants to Second City Chamber Series, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Second City Chamber Series?
- ELLIOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Second City Chamber Series 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.
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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 2022–2025), 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