Washington · Nonprofit
Vancouver Master Chorale
Vancouver Master Chorale (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,818 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($11,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $83k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $74k
What Vancouver Master Chorale does
Mission
Vancouver Master Chorale VMC is an all-volunteer choir founded in 1949 that presents multiple choral concerts each year in Vancouver and throughout Southwest Washington. The organization brings together more than 100 singers of all ages to perform significant sacred and secular choral works. Its purpose is to promote the appreciation and enjoyment of choral music and to inspire and uplift audiences through quality performances of artistic excellence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The organization presented two performances of From Haydn to Basin Street reaching approximately 400 people. This concert weekend paired Haydns Lord Nelson Mass a major work of the classical sacred repertoire with Will Todds Mass in Blue a contemporary setting of the Mass text shaped by jazz and blues influences. The result was a bold and engaging program that highlighted both the depth of the choral tradition and its continued evolution in modern forms. The concert also featured a solo selection performed by the winner of the organizations youth vocal scholarship competition giving a promising young singer the opportunity to appear before a public audience in the context of a major concert program. As one of the organizations first major presentations under new director Philip Denton the weekend reflected both artistic continuity and a strong beginning to a new chapter in the choirs leadership.
$26,545 spent48% of program spendingThe organization presented two performances of Christmas Joy reaching approximately 630 people. This holiday concert weekend offered a rich and varied program that combined two contrasting settings of the Magnificat with seasonal repertoire jazz selections audience carol singing and Handels Hallelujah Chorus. By blending sacred and festive music with opportunities for audience participation the program created a concert experience that celebrated the season while inviting connection reflection and shared enjoyment through choral music. The weekend also marked the farewell of longtime director Jana Hart making these performances especially meaningful in the life of the organization and honoring a period of artistic leadership that helped shape the choirs identity and growth over many years.
$16,134 spent29% of program spendingThe organization presented two performances of Verdis Messa da Requiem reaching approximately 865 people. Performed in collaboration with the Southwest Washington Symphony in Longview and Vancouver this concert weekend was a major artistic undertaking for the organization bringing together chorus and orchestra to present a landmark masterwork. Through this large-scale regional collaboration the organization expanded community access to a work that is both musically demanding and deeply moving while demonstrating the capacity of local performing arts organizations to join forces in service of artistic excellence. The performances reflected the organizations commitment to presenting substantial choral literature at a high level and to enriching the cultural life of the broader community through ambitious live performance.
$12,760 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $55,439.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $133k to $74k (−44%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $130 → $14k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Vancouver Master Chorale’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
Vancouver Master Chorale leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
59% 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 Vancouver Master Chorale.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 2023 87% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Vancouver Master Chorale's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $456 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like Vancouver Master Chorale
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Vancouver Master Chorale: 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 Vancouver Master Chorale?
- Vancouver Master Chorale (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,818 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($11,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Vancouver Master Chorale have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,818 in grants to Vancouver Master Chorale, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Vancouver Master Chorale?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $11,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Vancouver Master Chorale find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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