Texas · Nonprofit
SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $186,380 to it, the largest being RUSSELL HILL ROGERS FUND FOR THE ARTS ($90,610). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $177k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $186k
- Net assets
- $129k
What Soli Chamber Ensemble does
Mission
SOLI's mission is to cultivate and promote the awareness and appreciation of contemporary classical music through commissioning projects, high-caliber performances, cross-genre collaborations, and engaging educational and outreach programs. Through these initiatives, SOLI stretches the boundaries of classical chamber music into a new model of musical expression relevant to the 21st-century experience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
SOLI presented four live concerts at its home venue, Trinity University's Ruth Taylor Recital Hall, and one community engagement event at Texas Public Radio, for ca. 675 annual total attendees. In addition to the accomplishments below, the ensemble co-commissioned two new chamber compositions, conducted a multi-day residency at the University of Houston, and recorded two works for a future commercial release.
$68,677 spent$45,233 earned by the program44% of program spendingSOLI Chamber Ensemble presented the world premiere of Cancionero de luto by composer Armando Bayolo at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas, for an audience of over 200. Co-commissioned by SOLI Chamber Ensemble and Yale University, this poignant new work reflects on the 2022 Robb Elementary School tragedy and other acts of violence. Scored for small ensemble and chorus, the performance marked SOLI's second collaboration with the San Antonio Chamber Choir.
$31,733 spent$31,175 earned by the program20% of program spendingDuring the 2024-2025 season, SOLI's 30x30x30 30th Anniversary Project continued to flourish. SOLI performed and recorded 22 of 30 works selected for the project in partnership with national collaborators. The Ensemble also hosted eleven of the project composers in San Antonio for two public Showcase weekends that included workshops, Q&A sessions, recording sessions, and live performances, providing audiences direct access to the composers and the creative process behind new chamber music.
$53,716 spent$48,231 earned by the program34% of program spendingDepreciation, donated facilities, equipment rental, office and payroll expenses, credit card fees.
$1,861 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $155,987.
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 2022 to 2023, from $144k to $226k (+57%).
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: 2024 28% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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.
Board chair
David A Lopez
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $18k → $22k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE’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
SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 31% · 2022 45% · 2023 55% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 15% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
86% of SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE is better cushioned than half 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
Government funding SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE: 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 SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE?
- SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $186,380 to it, the largest being RUSSELL HILL ROGERS FUND FOR THE ARTS ($90,610). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $186,380 in grants to SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE?
- RUSSELL HILL ROGERS FUND FOR THE ARTS is the largest funder on record, with $90,610 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 13 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