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TONALITY

TONALITY (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,586 to it, the largest being Tejemos Foundation ($100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$657k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$339k
Net assets
$83k
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Tonality does

Mission

Tonality was created to produce choral concerts that focus on issues rarely presented in choral music. Concerts themes have included gun violence, homelessness, refugees, climate change, mental health, womens rights, and exercising democratic rights.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. JUNE 21, 2025: Ruth Naomi Floyd Collaboration on 'Are we yet somehow alive?' MAY 24, 2025: Put Your Guns Down - The Wallis, Beverly Hills, CA MAY 22, 2025: Mancini at 100 Concert: Scott Dunn Orchestra The Wallis, Beverly Hills, CAMAY 8,2025: Ricky Kej Recording of "Gandhi Mantras of Compassion"APRIL 1, 2025: Carla Patullo RecordingMARCH 22, 2025: HRC Performance with David ArchuletaMARCH 18, 2025: Corvallis Showcase The Wallis, Beverly Hills, CAFEBRUARY 15, 2025: At War With Ourselves - 400 Years of You - The Wallis, Beverly Hills, CA JANUARY 20, 2025: America Will Be - Wake Forest University, NC JANUARY 18, 2025: America Will Be - Duke University, NC NOVEMBER 16, 2024: HomeCare: A Concert on Climate Change - Caltech, Pasadena, CA OCTOBER 2, 2024: You Are Not Alone - Morrison Center, Boise, ID SEPTEMBER 29, 2024: Randy Newmans FAUST: The Concert - The Soraya, Northridge, CA SEPTEMBER 28, 2024: Randy Newmans FAUST: The Concert - The Soraya, Northridge, CA SEPTEMBER 13, 2024: America Will Be - Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at Illinois, IL JULY 23, 2024: America Will Be - Iowa Choral Directors Association Summer Symposium, IA

    $471,437 spent$234,507 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $471,437.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($72k) Expenses 100 ($66k) Net assets 100 ($25k)2020 Revenue 107 ($77k) Expenses 78 ($51k) Net assets 201 ($51k)2021 Revenue 347 ($248k) Expenses 199 ($131k) Net assets 662 ($169k)2022 Revenue 295 ($211k) Expenses 295 ($193k) Net assets 700 ($178k)2023 Revenue 599 ($429k) Expenses 723 ($474k) Net assets 522 ($133k)2024 Revenue 480 ($344k) Expenses 681 ($447k) Net assets 71 ($18k)2025 Revenue 917 ($657k) Expenses 903 ($592k) Net assets 325 ($83k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (917)Expenses (903)Net assets (325)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 2024 to 2025, from $31k to $205k (+551%).

$25k
$51k
$169k
$178k
$142k
$31k
$205k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

64% of TONALITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’19
$26k
’20
$118k
’21
$18k
’22
−$45k
’23
−$103k
’24
$65k
’25
2.0
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.

Board chair

Dr David Connors

board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed912101313
Joined·+3+2+3+3
No longer listed·0403
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $9k → $47k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 TONALITY’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

TONALITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47% 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 TONALITY.

30%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 38% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 64% — 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

25% of TONALITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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

TONALITY draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.

NY
PA
CA
TX

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

’17
’18
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TONALITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)45% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding TONALITY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.

Federal$25k
grants $25kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$25k

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 TONALITY

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 13%Fundraising 7%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TONALITY: 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 TONALITY?
TONALITY (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,586 to it, the largest being Tejemos Foundation ($100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TONALITY have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $338,586 in grants to TONALITY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TONALITY?
Tejemos Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TONALITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 11 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