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Virginia Chamber Music Foundation
Virginia Chamber Music Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $367,910 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH AND ROBERT CORNELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($125,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $337k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $368k
- Net assets
- $473k
What Virginia Chamber Music Foundation does
Mission
To increase the understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of chamber music in Virginia and beyond, through presentation of annual Festival and other concerts, outreach events and educational programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Presented the 24th Annual Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival with 10 live events in 11 days, including 4 series concerts in historic Paramount Theater and U. of Virginia's Old Cabell Hall, one collaborative event with Virginia Symphony Orchestra (see below), 2 special events showcasing artists at 2nd Street Gallery in downtown Charlottesville and at a local rural vineyard, plus 2 Free community programs (see below) and one public school concert. Programming incorporated traditional and newer repertoire. The 22 participating artists included musicians of international acclaim and a number of emerging talents. Pandemic recovery continued with growing audience.
$160,000 spent$43,764 earned by the program78% of program spendingPresented 3 Free outreach events benefiting different constituencies: All events were performed by internationally acclaimed musicians. - Free Community Concert at historic Paramount Theater and - Free Midday Concert at historic church near downtown. Printed programs with notes were provided to both audiences. - Free school program in collaboration with the Fine Arts Coordinator for Charlottesville Public Schools, for all the school system's 8th Grade students at city's Buford Middle School. Several of the artists had strong arts education experience and response was very positive. Also presented a dress rehearsal at a local senior community. Overall, approximately 880 served at the 4 events.
$35,000 spent17% of program spendingCollaborated with Virginia Symphony Orchestra and The Paramount Theater of Charlottesville to present a concert featuring Festival solo artists in Beethoven's Triple Concerto, and the Reich duet for 2 violins and orchestra, plus Beethoven's 7th Symphony.
$9,500 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $204,500.
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 $245k to $352k (+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.
77% of Virginia Chamber Music Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Linda C Monahan
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $6k → $46k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Virginia Chamber Music Foundation’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
Virginia Chamber Music Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 Virginia Chamber Music Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 47% · 2019 41% · 2020 51% · 2021 44% · 2022 54% · 2023 44% — 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
33% of Virginia Chamber Music Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
56% of Virginia Chamber Music Foundation's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140k 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.
Against its field
Virginia Chamber Music Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Virginia Chamber Music Foundation
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
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 Virginia Chamber Music Foundation: 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 Virginia Chamber Music Foundation?
- Virginia Chamber Music Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $367,910 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH AND ROBERT CORNELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($125,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Virginia Chamber Music Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $367,910 in grants to Virginia Chamber Music Foundation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Virginia Chamber Music Foundation?
- THE JOSEPH AND ROBERT CORNELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Virginia Chamber Music Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 9 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing