Minnesota · Nonprofit
SHOW CHOIRS OF BEMIDJI INC
SHOW CHOIRS OF BEMIDJI INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,737 to it, the largest being SANFORD GROUP RETURN ($6,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $70k
What Show Choirs of Bemidji Inc does
Mission
Continue to provide educational opportunities in vocal music and dance. Through projects like bemidji boychoir, the bemidji youth honors choir, and summer voice lesson programs, show choirs of bemidji, inc. Will continue to bring more artistic opportunities to young people in our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The first show choir was developed as an extra curricular activity at bemidji high school. The group was made up of a small number of singer/dancers and a back up band. The show competitive choir;putting a set of songs together with dance and instrumentation to entertain and communicate an artistic message to their audience. Along with local performances, the group also participates in 3 to 5 cometitions per year, providing the students with another educational opportunity through professional adjudication and critiques.
$103,672 spent100% of program spendingA second show choir, "la voce ballo", has been established providing an intensive learning experience for students in the art of singing, dancing, & performing. This event provides our students a unique opportunity to not only participate as a group, but to develop and present solo acts as well. Our primary fundraising activity is our annual dinner show. While providing a stage for our young people to grow as performers, the dinner show has become a cooperative effort; bringing our community together through volunteer work and donations to create three nights of exceptional entertainment.
$0 spent0% of program spendingThe bemidji area summer show choir camp provides an introductory experience in singing and dancing for young students in grades 5 through 8. Mentorship opportunities are also provided to high school students who volunteer to be camp counselors.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $103,672.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $20k to $61k (+201%).
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.
62% of SHOW CHOIRS OF BEMIDJI INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $77.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 SHOW CHOIRS OF BEMIDJI INC’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
SHOW CHOIRS OF BEMIDJI INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 SHOW CHOIRS OF BEMIDJI INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 70% · 2022 98% · 2023 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
SHOW CHOIRS OF BEMIDJI INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $237 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.
Against its field
SHOW CHOIRS OF BEMIDJI INC 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 SHOW CHOIRS OF BEMIDJI INC
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 Minnesota
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 SHOW CHOIRS OF BEMIDJI INC: 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 SHOW CHOIRS OF BEMIDJI INC?
- SHOW CHOIRS OF BEMIDJI INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,737 to it, the largest being SANFORD GROUP RETURN ($6,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHOW CHOIRS OF BEMIDJI INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $12,737 in grants to SHOW CHOIRS OF BEMIDJI INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHOW CHOIRS OF BEMIDJI INC?
- SANFORD GROUP RETURN is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHOW CHOIRS OF BEMIDJI INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 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