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SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER

SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,714 to it, the largest being HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC ($12,714). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$88k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$13k
Net assets
$299k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Society for Preservation & Encrgmnt of Barbershop Quartet Singing Amer does

Mission

Preserve Barbershop Harmony, an American Art Form

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Convention/contest District competition for Quartet and Chorus champions, Qualification for Quartet and Chorus BHS International convention. 400 registered

    $29,645 spentof which $12,632 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Harmony College Midwest. Quartet coaching and teaching of singing techniques for individuals. 95 registered

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,645.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($26k) Expenses 100 ($40k) Net assets 100 ($247k)2022 Revenue 140 ($37k) Expenses 91 ($37k) Net assets 86 ($212k)2023 Revenue 321 ($84k) Expenses 125 ($50k) Net assets 99 ($245k)2024 Revenue 287 ($75k) Expenses 118 ($48k) Net assets 111 ($273k)2025 Revenue 336 ($88k) Expenses 151 ($61k) Net assets 121 ($299k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (336)Expenses (151)Net assets (121)

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 $247k to $212k (−14%).

$247k
$212k
$245k
$273k
$299k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$14k
’21
−$112
’22
$34k
’23
$28k
’24
$27k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER’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

SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.

TN

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 SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER?
SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,714 to it, the largest being HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC ($12,714). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,714 in grants to SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER.
Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER?
HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,714 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 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