Ohio · Nonprofit
Summit Choral Society Inc
Summit Choral Society Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $479,467 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($192,295). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $381k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $479k
- Net assets
- $184k
What Summit Choral Society Inc does
Mission
To provide a continuum of musical training for young children through senior adults, produce exceptional choral performances and preserve the art of choral music for the enrichment and enjoyment of the greater akron community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The children's choir program consists of approximately 120 youth participants in grades k-12 and exists to provide classical vocal/choral training to the community's youth, performing 10 to 25 concerts each year.
$156,838 spent78% of program spendingThe metropolitan chorus is comprised of approximately 100 adult volunteer singers. Each season they perform 3 to 5 concerts.
$19,605 spent10% of program spendingSing with me is an early childhood (from birth to age 5) music program serving about 40 children and their families each year.
$13,723 spent7% of program spendingSummer music camps explore music, theatre and dance in a themed musical show for about 25 school aged children annually.
$5,881 spent3% of program spendingThe choral scholars program provides college students with opportunities for unique choral experiences and leadership while learning arts administration and management skills in this paid internship.
$4,000 spent2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $200,047.
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 2021 to 2022, from $124k to $211k (+71%).
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: 2021 30% · 2022 21% · 2023 6% · 2024 19% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of Summit Choral Society Inc’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. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 9 funders, grant income rose $47k → $67k.
3 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 Summit Choral Society 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
Summit Choral Society Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 Summit Choral Society Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 61% · 2019 49% · 2020 41% · 2021 60% · 2022 30% · 2023 31% — 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
38% of Summit Choral Society Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
100% of Summit Choral Society Inc's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $211k 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
Summit Choral Society Inc has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Summit Choral Society 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Summit Choral Society 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 Summit Choral Society Inc?
- Summit Choral Society Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $479,467 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($192,295). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Summit Choral Society Inc have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $479,467 in grants to Summit Choral Society Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Summit Choral Society Inc?
- AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $192,295 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Summit Choral Society Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 22 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