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TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC

TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $946,618 to it, the largest being BLACK TIE DINNER INC ($351,235). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$947k
Net assets
$505k
11/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Turtle Creek Chorale Inc does

Mission

The Turtle Creek Chorale seeks to move hearts, minds and souls with the power of choral singing. We do so with public performances, education programming and community involvement. There are three pillars of our mission: Empower to unite people through music by identifying and building bridges, promoting dialogue between the LGBT community and others and bringing communities, families and individuals together. Educate to advance male choral music within the community through educational outreach and programming, to commission existing and emerging composers, to expand choral literature and to provide music and social education programs. Entertain to present diverse and exciting programming, visually intriguing performance, unique and compelling stories and innovative themes.THE MISSION OF Turtle Creek Chorale IS TO ENTERTAIN, EDUCATE, UNITE AND INSPIRE.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Turtle creek chorale(tcc) consists of over 200 dues-paying members who contribute over 100,000 hours annually to rehearsals, performances and community outreach services. Tcc has provided musical journeys to audiences in dallas, tx for over 40 years and annually offers a dynamic mainstage concert series at the dallas city performance hall in the arts district. Tcc also features three smaller ensembles-chamber chorus, camerata and sound bytes. Each group delivers a unique performance that highlights the members wealth of talent. While primarily a gay men's chorus, the tcc welcomes all men and those who identify as male, regardless of sexual orientation.

    $651,561 spentof which $4,103 as grants$223,433 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $651,561.

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 ($769k) Expenses 100 ($821k) Net assets 100 ($307k)2018 Revenue 102 ($786k) Expenses 106 ($870k) Net assets 76 ($232k)2019 Revenue 104 ($797k) Expenses 98 ($806k) Net assets 82 ($251k)2020 Revenue 102 ($784k) Expenses 90 ($739k) Net assets 132 ($406k)2021 Revenue 109 ($840k) Expenses 65 ($534k) Net assets 205 ($630k)2022 Revenue 185 ($1.4M) Expenses 196 ($1.6M) Net assets 127 ($389k)2023 Revenue 134 ($1.0M) Expenses 160 ($1.3M) Net assets 76 ($232k)2024 Revenue 173 ($1.3M) Expenses 146 ($1.2M) Net assets 164 ($505k)
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Revenue (173)Expenses (146)Net assets (164)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 2019 to 2020, from $503k to $827k (+64%).

$434k
$502k
$503k
$827k
$862k
$795k
$692k
$785k
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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 9% · 2018 9% · 2019 5% · 2021 7% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

128% of TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$52k
’17
−$84k
’18
−$8k
’19
$45k
’20
$306k
’21
−$191k
’22
−$283k
’23
$134k
’24
1.8
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

whitney strauss

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1616171415121215
Joined·+5+4+4+3+6+1+8
No longer listed·5372915
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $29k → $132k.

5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 TURTLE CREEK CHORALE 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

TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

67% 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 TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC.

37%
largest funder
71%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 52% · 2019 53% · 2020 67% · 2021 41% · 2022 42% · 2023 46% — 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

63% of TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

94% of TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

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

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve1.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

54% of spending goes to programs.

Program 54%Management 33%Fundraising 13%

Governance

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

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC?
TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $946,618 to it, the largest being BLACK TIE DINNER INC ($351,235). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $946,618 in grants to TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC?
BLACK TIE DINNER INC is the largest funder on record, with $351,235 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 23 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