Minnesota · Nonprofit
STAPLES AREA MEN'S CHORUS INC
STAPLES AREA MEN'S CHORUS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,805 to it, the largest being THE FIVE WINGS ARTS COUNCIL ($106,700). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $39k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $107k
- Net assets
- $33k
What Staples Area Men's Chorus Inc does
Mission
The purpose of this corporation shall be to study, promote and participate in men's chorus music, to provide entertainment for the public and to recognize and advance the power of music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
During the year, the staples area men's chorus (samc) had 32 members. Our year started with the little red caboose variety show on august 17, 2023 in which we performed and assisted back stage, 19 members participated and there were 210 in attendance. We performed a music on the farm venue on september 23, 2023 in which 21 participants set up and sang on a rural farm with 79 attendees. On october 14, 2023 our music festival "real men sing" returned to staples motley high school with 125 participants including the samc a college choir and area high school students. We had 215 attendees at the finale concert and are still considering a rotating venue for future festivals. This would be a way for the samc to expand our boundaries as part of our community outreach goals. Another goal of the festival is to help high school and college music programs attract and retain male singers for their choral ensembles and to help them remain strong and vibrant organizations. Real men sing aims to help young men find the joy and richness that singing brings to life. We participated as part of our outreach and virtual delivery in the empty stocking fund raiser in december of 2023, which included a…
$37,283 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,283.
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 2024 to 2025, from $23k to $33k (+46%).
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.
63% of STAPLES AREA MEN'S CHORUS 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 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $10k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 STAPLES AREA MEN'S CHORUS 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
STAPLES AREA MEN'S CHORUS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 STAPLES AREA MEN'S CHORUS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
100% of STAPLES AREA MEN'S CHORUS INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105 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
STAPLES AREA MEN'S CHORUS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like STAPLES AREA MEN'S CHORUS 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 Minnesota
Nationally
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STAPLES AREA MEN'S CHORUS 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 STAPLES AREA MEN'S CHORUS INC?
- STAPLES AREA MEN'S CHORUS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,805 to it, the largest being THE FIVE WINGS ARTS COUNCIL ($106,700). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STAPLES AREA MEN'S CHORUS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $106,805 in grants to STAPLES AREA MEN'S CHORUS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STAPLES AREA MEN'S CHORUS INC?
- THE FIVE WINGS ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $106,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STAPLES AREA MEN'S CHORUS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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