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SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER

SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26,496 to it, the largest being HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC ($26,496). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$97k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$26k
Net assets
$43k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

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

Mission

CHARITY TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE SINGING. Our mission is to preserve and advance the Barbershop art form while providing and encouraging an inclusive community for youth in Southern California and around the world to engage in lifelong singing music and artistic expression.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Remained an active chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society an organization that provides the opportunity to experience the joy of four-part acapella singing and sustains music in the lives of people everywhere

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

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 ($25k) Expenses 100 ($20k) Net assets 100 ($30k)2022 Revenue 102 ($26k) Expenses 153 ($31k) Net assets 83 ($25k)2023 Revenue 135 ($34k) Expenses 190 ($38k) Net assets 69 ($21k)2024 Revenue 247 ($63k) Expenses 295 ($60k) Net assets 78 ($24k)2025 Revenue 384 ($97k) Expenses 385 ($78k) Net assets 142 ($43k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (384)Expenses (385)Net assets (142)

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $24k to $43k (+82%).

$30k
$25k
$21k
$24k
$43k
20212022202320242025
Total assets

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.

$5k
’21
−$5k
’22
−$4k
’23
$3k
’24
$19k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $6k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
total
funders
1
1
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 California, across 1 state in all.

TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
California out of state home

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

CA

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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 (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26,496 to it, the largest being HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC ($26,496). 1 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 $26,496 in grants to SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
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 $26,496 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 California. 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