Minnesota · Nonprofit
TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS
TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS (Minnesota) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $630,829 to it, the largest being THE BRAUN FOUNDATION ($220,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $536k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $631k
- Net assets
- $428k
What Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus does
Mission
None
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus is a volunteer community chorus with the mission: "building community through music." traditionally the chorus can include up to 180 singers for each of three mainstage performances during the season, and also includes two small ensembles; outloud!, performing popular contemporary repertoire, and borealis, performing more traditional choral repertoire, both featuring up to 16 singers. In the 2023-2024 season, tcgmc presented three mainstage concerts. The holiday concert at the westwood lutheran church, the spring concert at ted mann concert hall and the pride concert at st. Andrews in mohntemedi. Additionally, tcgmc presented outreach performances and collaborations throughout the season and additionally shared content digitally via social media. Collaborations included a cabaret to recognize world aids day with clare housing and performing the national anthem at local major league sporting events.
$334,476 spent$150,443 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $334,476.
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 2020 to 2021, from $269k to $488k (+82%).
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: 2017 12% · 2018 10% · 2019 12% · 2020 11% · 2021 36% · 2022 26% · 2023 19% · 2024 17% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $17k → $85k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S 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
TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 53% · 2019 46% · 2020 38% · 2021 39% · 2022 53% · 2023 26% — 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
69% of TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
67% of TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $169k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS: 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 TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS?
- TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS (Minnesota) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $630,829 to it, the largest being THE BRAUN FOUNDATION ($220,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $630,829 in grants to TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS?
- THE BRAUN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 22 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