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The Boston Camerata Inc

The Boston Camerata Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,124 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & LIA G POORVU FAMILY FOUNDATION ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$214k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$245k
Net assets
$22k
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What The Boston Camerata Inc does

Mission

The Boston Camerata preserves and reawakens human memory as expressed through the art of music. It accomplishes this mission through live, historically informed, professional performances and recordings

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Vocal and instrumental Performances of Early European and American Music were performed to entertain and educate audiences, and foster a greater understanding and appreciation of this music.

    $176,058 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $176,058.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($278k) Expenses 100 ($264k) Net assets 100 ($29k)2018 Revenue 103 ($285k) Expenses 111 ($294k) Net assets 71 ($21k)2019 Revenue 94 ($262k) Expenses 91 ($240k) Net assets 146 ($43k)2020 Revenue 116 ($322k) Expenses 114 ($300k) Net assets 222 ($65k)2021 Revenue 67 ($187k) Expenses 64 ($168k) Net assets 288 ($84k)2022 Revenue 82 ($227k) Expenses 83 ($220k) Net assets 313 ($92k)2023 Revenue 110 ($306k) Expenses 123 ($324k) Net assets 253 ($74k)2024 Revenue 77 ($214k) Expenses 101 ($266k) Net assets 74 ($22k)
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Revenue (77)Expenses (101)Net assets (74)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $76k to $22k (−72%).

$31k
$23k
$45k
$83k
$98k
$94k
$76k
$22k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 32% · 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 12% · 2022 9% · 2023 10% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

58% of The Boston Camerata Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’17
−$9k
’18
$22k
’19
$22k
’20
$19k
’21
$7k
’22
−$18k
’23
−$52k
’24
1.0
months of
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.

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Listed1210111110131313
Joined·+0+3+1+0+5+0+0
No longer listed·2211200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $31k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 The Boston Camerata 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

The Boston Camerata Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

32% 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 The Boston Camerata Inc.

61%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2020 62% · 2021 61% · 2022 54% · 2023 81% — 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

67% of The Boston Camerata Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

95% of The Boston Camerata Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

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MA
MD
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Boston Camerata Inc's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−25% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding The Boston Camerata Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.

State$75k
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  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$75k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 32%Fundraising 2%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Boston Camerata Inc?
The Boston Camerata Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,124 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & LIA G POORVU FAMILY FOUNDATION ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Boston Camerata Inc have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $245,124 in grants to The Boston Camerata Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Boston Camerata Inc?
THE WILLIAM & LIA G POORVU FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Boston Camerata Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 9 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