Arizona · Nonprofit
SONORAN DESERT CHORALE INC
SONORAN DESERT CHORALE INC (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,334 to it, the largest being Otto & Edna Neely Foundation ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $96k
What Sonoran Desert Chorale Inc does
Mission
Choral music performance
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Arts, Culture & Humanities Programs, General/Other: Performance of four major concert programs during the 2025-2026 concert season; attendance totaling approx 2500 people.
$63,474 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $63,474.
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 2025 to 2026, from $71k to $96k (+35%).
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.
54% of SONORAN DESERT CHORALE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
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
John Page
Board President
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $362 → $5k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 SONORAN DESERT CHORALE 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
SONORAN DESERT CHORALE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 72% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — growing more concentrated.
“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
99% of SONORAN DESERT CHORALE INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k 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
SONORAN DESERT CHORALE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 710 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 710 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like SONORAN DESERT CHORALE 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
88%
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 SONORAN DESERT CHORALE 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 SONORAN DESERT CHORALE INC?
- SONORAN DESERT CHORALE INC (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,334 to it, the largest being Otto & Edna Neely Foundation ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SONORAN DESERT CHORALE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $11,334 in grants to SONORAN DESERT CHORALE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SONORAN DESERT CHORALE INC?
- Otto & Edna Neely Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SONORAN DESERT CHORALE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 3 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing