Illinois · Nonprofit
THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen
THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen (Illinois) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,054 to it, the largest being JULIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,274). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $194k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $218k
- Net assets
- $805k
What THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen does
Mission
The Solti Foundation U.S. was established after the 1997 death of Sir Georg Solti. Its mission is to assist talented young American musicians at the start of their professional careers. It has made annual grants to awardees since 2003. Solti also provides Opera residencies and development projects to musicians
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Congratulations to all 18 recipients of the 2025 Career Assistance Awards! The Solti Foundation U.S. Board Chair Penny Van Horn and Artistic and Awards Committee Chair Elizabeth Buccheri today announced the young conductors who will receive a 2025 Career Assistance Award (CAA) in this, the Foundations 25th anniversary year. Among the 18 American conductors, all 36 years of age or younger, are a music director designate of an American orchestra, a founder and Music Director of an American chamber orchestra, a chief conductor of an Austrian orchestra, two Assistant Conductors at German opera companies, multiple Assistant Conductorships, and more. The conductors hold positions throughout the United States, in Austria, France, and Germany, as well as enjoying guest engagements around the globe. Of the 18 awardees, six of the young conductors are receiving recognition by the Foundation for the first time, while others are being acknowledged once again.Ms. Van Horn stated, The recipients of the 2025 Career Assistance Awards are a truly motivated group! From opera companies to orchestras, chamber orchestras and posts with universities and other educational organizations, to fellowships…
$160,826 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $160,826.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.0M to $835k (−20%).
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.
76% of THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 8 funders, grant income rose $29k → $35k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen’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 SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 44% · 2019 40% · 2020 35% · 2021 19% · 2022 27% · 2023 21% — 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.
How long its funders stay
31% of THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
84% of THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen?
- THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen (Illinois) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,054 to it, the largest being JULIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,274). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $218,054 in grants to THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen?
- JULIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,274 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 24 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