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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S CHORAL ASSOCIATION
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S CHORAL ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,471 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY JUSTICE FOUNDATION ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $299k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $38k
- Net assets
- $706k
What Southern California Children's Choral Association does
Mission
The Southern California Children's Choral Association exists to enhance children's lives through distinguished music education and performance, while building a world class children's chorus.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Performances: a recipient of 3 emmy awards, sccc has gained international acclaim for the quality of its music education program. Our choruses are featured frequently at orange county's segerstrom hall and have thrilled audiences at carnegie hall, the sydney opera house, westminster abbey and the white house. The organization holds 21 large public performances and approximately 15 smaller group performances each year. Total student enrollment in the 6 chorus levels for the current fiscal year was 200.
$120,322 spent$190,005 earned by the program52% of program spendingRehearsals: choral rehearsals are held weekly for two hours each week throughout the academic year. The core music learning and character shaping activities take place in rehearsals, preparing children to perform at a world-class level and to bond together as an ensemble. Through a programstressing musical aptitude, teamwork, discipline, self-confidence and personal growth, sccc strives to develop the entire character of its young singers. Our sequential choral program consists of six choirsguided by a highly skilled and experienced faculty.
$90,487 spent39% of program spendingScholarships: sccc is tuition-based and is dedicated to making its programs available to children from all economic backgrounds, providing scholarships and other forms of assistance to families in need. A total of 45 music scholarships were awarded during the fiscal year ended august 31, 2025. The purpose and objective of scholarships is to ensure no child is unable to participate in the program for lack of funds.
$19,542 spentof which $19,542 as grants8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $230,351.
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 2017 to 2018, from $383k to $483k (+26%).
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: 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S CHORAL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
John Loftus
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $8k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S CHORAL ASSOCIATION’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
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S CHORAL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S CHORAL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2020 94% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — diversifying over time.
“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
98% of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S CHORAL ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S CHORAL ASSOCIATION receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $38k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S CHORAL ASSOCIATION?
- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S CHORAL ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,471 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY JUSTICE FOUNDATION ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S CHORAL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $38,471 in grants to SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S CHORAL ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S CHORAL ASSOCIATION?
- COMMUNITY JUSTICE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S CHORAL ASSOCIATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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