California · Nonprofit
SOUND ORCHARD
SOUND ORCHARD (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,005 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($38,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $108k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $49k
- Net assets
- $25k
What Sound Orchard does
Mission
To build community through music education and collaborative music-making activities.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The choir scholarship program provided over 50 scholarships to low-income community members for participation in choral programs. The organization's largest program, West Marin Choir, engaged 130 singers with 115 hours of rehearsal and 7 performances and brought joyful music into the lives of more than 1,300 audience members.The Winter and Spring 2019 seasons both included performances of over 30 singers in Stinson Beach and Point Reyes, including a special session on Latino music with resident artist Jacob Leyva, a Latino musician.El Coro de los Muertos (The Choir of the Dead) performed at West Marins Day of the Dead ceremony and parade in the fall, creating the musical accompaniment for this important multicultural community gathering of hundreds of people to honor Latino culture and tradition.The choirs Holiday 2019 session engaged over 60 singers in two West Marin towns to study repertoire of traditional European holiday music, engaging resident artist Kristine Barrett. The group performed at two free community festivals, for hundreds of people, including Point Reyes Path of Lights. The Miwok Music Project provided online resources at miwokmusic.org that reached over 1,200…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $20k to $26k (+30%).
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.
71% of SOUND ORCHARD’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 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $8k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 SOUND ORCHARD’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
SOUND ORCHARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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
79% 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 SOUND ORCHARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 86% · 2019 94% · 2020 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
79% of SOUND ORCHARD's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $11k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k 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
SOUND ORCHARD receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $49k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,811 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2019
Organizations like SOUND ORCHARD
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
76%
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 SOUND ORCHARD: 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 SOUND ORCHARD?
- SOUND ORCHARD (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,005 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($38,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUND ORCHARD have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $49,005 in grants to SOUND ORCHARD, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUND ORCHARD?
- MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $38,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUND ORCHARD 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 4 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