Minnesota · Nonprofit
SINGERS MINNESOTA CHORAL ARTISTS
SINGERS MINNESOTA CHORAL ARTISTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,460 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($170,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $283k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $320k
- Net assets
- $600k
What Singers Minnesota Choral Artists does
Mission
The Singers serve as artists educators and ambassadors of the choral art. Primary activities are performances educational outreach and recording.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Singers celebrated their 20th Anniversary season with subscription concerts in October 2023 Singers Choice December 2023 What Sweeter Music March 2024 My Souls Repose and May 2024 Windows and Mirrors. Two Community Sing events included Considering Matthew Shepard October 2023 and the Justice Choir Songbook January 2024. The choir also performed world premiere works by composers Isaac Lovdahl Matthew Culloton John Muehleisen Remel Derrick Roger Zare and Aaron David Miller. Lovdahl Derrick and Zare were winners in a global call for scores meant to celebrate the choirs dedication to new music for 20 years. In February 2024 the choir teamed for a collaborative concert with the Concordia Choir. In June 2024 The Singers headlined for the national conference of the Anglican Association of Musicians.
$254,150 spent100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $254,150.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $613k to $547k (−11%).
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: 2021 3% · 2022 7% · 2023 12% · 2024 13% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of SINGERS MINNESOTA CHORAL ARTISTS’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. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $123k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 SINGERS MINNESOTA CHORAL ARTISTS’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
SINGERS MINNESOTA CHORAL ARTISTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 SINGERS MINNESOTA CHORAL ARTISTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 59% · 2021 62% · 2022 64% · 2023 63% — 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
90% of SINGERS MINNESOTA CHORAL ARTISTS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k 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
SINGERS MINNESOTA CHORAL ARTISTS holds deeper cash reserves 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 SINGERS MINNESOTA CHORAL ARTISTS
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.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 SINGERS MINNESOTA CHORAL ARTISTS: 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 SINGERS MINNESOTA CHORAL ARTISTS?
- SINGERS MINNESOTA CHORAL ARTISTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,460 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($170,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SINGERS MINNESOTA CHORAL ARTISTS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $320,460 in grants to SINGERS MINNESOTA CHORAL ARTISTS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SINGERS MINNESOTA CHORAL ARTISTS?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SINGERS MINNESOTA CHORAL ARTISTS 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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