Michigan · Nonprofit
THE LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CHORUS
THE LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CHORUS (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,871 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($5,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $42k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $22k
What The Lakeshore Community Chorus does
Mission
Program Service Accomplishments - The Lakeshore Community Chorus' (LCC) stated mission is, "The Lakeshore Community Chorus fosters community engagement by performing diverse choral music and sponsoring related programs for the education and enjoyment of members and audiences in our surrounding lakeshore communities." We achieve this primarily through performing two signature concerts each year, one in the Fall (holiday concert) and one in the Spring. Our concerts often involve collaboration with area high schools and other guest choral groups. We also perform at senior centers, local community events and 'pop-up' vocal performances in and around the Saugatuck-Douglas area. Our 2024 Holiday concert, "I'll Be Seeing You: Holiday Homecomings" was presented on December 7th and 8th at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts. The concert included a variety of Christmas and holiday songs interspersed with readings related to going home for the holidays. The 49 singers ranged in age from 17 to 80+. There were 480 adults and 17 students in attendance at the two performances. Our Spring concert, "Bosom Buddies of Broadway" was presented on May 31st and June 1st at the First Congregational Church…
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Develop the concept, program and decorations for, purchase music for, rehearse for and present LCC's Spring concert, "Route 66 Road Trip" at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts.
$17,400 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $17,400.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $16k to $21k (+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.
59% of THE LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CHORUS’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. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $93 → $2k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CHORUS’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 LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CHORUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
59% 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 LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CHORUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 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
59% of THE LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CHORUS'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
THE LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CHORUS has grown faster 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 THE LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CHORUS
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CHORUS?
- THE LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CHORUS (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,871 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($5,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CHORUS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $8,871 in grants to THE LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CHORUS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CHORUS?
- RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CHORUS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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