Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE THIRTEEN
THE THIRTEEN (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $451,604 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($255,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $663k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $452k
- Net assets
- $353k
What The Thirteen does
Mission
The Thirteen is a professional choir and orchestra with a mission to inspire the soul to sing, move the heart to empathy, and build community, all through groundbreaking musical performance: through concerts, workshops, education outreach, recordings, and music commissions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Concerts & Workshops: The Thirteen's 2024-25 Season presented five choral programs for nearly 3000 audience members in 14 concerts. We also organized 6 workshops for students reaching 167 participants. Besides performing live in DC, Virginia, and Maryland, we offered online access to our performances to a growing worldwide audience. October featured Bach's Complete Motets, featuring choir, soloists, and Baroque orchestra. The December program, Handel's Messiah, also featured choir, soloists, and Baroque orchestra. In February we performed a program titled To the Field of Stars, featuring David Lang's Little Match Girl Passion paired with Gabriel Jackson's To the Field of Stars, accompanied by immersive projection designs by Camilla Tassi. March's program featured J.S. Bach's Early Masses, accompanied by Baroque orchestra. Our season culminated in May with a program titled The New American Songbook, which included works by contemporary American composers and a world premiere commission by composer Juhi Bansal. The May program included our 2025 class of Vocal Fellows who performed side by side with our rostered artists.
$433,822 spent$127,757 earned by the program89% of program spendingVocal Fellows Program: The Thirteen's Vocal Fellows Program is a semester-long career training and coaching program for early-career singers who have experienced obstacles in their pursuit of education or careers in the choral oratorio field. The Fellowship's mentorship activities focus on strategies for professional development, preparing for auditions and rehearsals, entrepreneurship, finding success as a classically trained singer and developing an authentic artistic voice. The Fellowship culminates in rehearsals, solo recitals, and participation alongside the fully rostered artists of the Thirteen in one of our season programs. Note that our Vocal Fellowship Program activity also benefits from expenses associated above and below with concerts and commissions.
$49,220 spent10% of program spendingCommissioning and New Works: The Thirteen is committed to expanding the canon of choral music. Several performances highlighted The Thirteen's championing of recent works, in particular our May program which featured our world premiere commission from Juhi Bansal, We Came Searching for a Home. Note that our commissioning and new works activity also benefits from expenses associated above with concerts and the Vocal Fellows Program.
$6,000 spent1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $489,042.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $85k to $358k (+324%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 4% · 2022 13% · 2023 27% · 2024 19% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of THE THIRTEEN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Julia Penny Clark
Chair, Board of Trustees
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $28k → $32k.
7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 THIRTEEN’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 THIRTEEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 THIRTEEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 71% · 2020 74% · 2021 74% · 2022 85% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.
“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
75% of THE THIRTEEN's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 53% 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
97% of THE THIRTEEN'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 $11k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $440k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 THIRTEEN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 850 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE THIRTEEN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $70k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$70k
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.
Organizations like THE THIRTEEN
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE THIRTEEN: 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 THE THIRTEEN?
- THE THIRTEEN (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $451,604 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($255,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE THIRTEEN have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $451,604 in grants to THE THIRTEEN, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE THIRTEEN?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $255,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE THIRTEEN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 15 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