Washington · Nonprofit
Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival
Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,922 to it, the largest being BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($200,522). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $368k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $440k
- Net assets
- $470k
What Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival does
Mission
The mission and purpose of the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival (WWCMF) is to promote excellence in the performance of chamber music throughout the greater Walla Walla Valley area, to embody these qualities as members of a greater community, and to raise the general level of interest in classical music, especially chamber music, in the Walla Walla Valley area. WWCMF strives to serve audiences through the following measures: Performance of chamber music works across the entire aesthetic spectrum of classical music. WWCMF also actively seeks to partner with other artists and art media to create multi-faceted performances that promote additional fine arts media. Promotion of new works by partnering with present-day composers in the commissioning and creation of new works to expand the contemporary music repertoire. Presentation of educational programs to expand the means for understanding and appreciating classical music.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The purpose of the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival is to further the accessibility, performance, and awareness of the art of chamber music in the Walla Walla Valley. In January 2025, the Winter Festival was attended by 717 individuals at four ticketed concerts. In June of 2025, there were 2603 audience members at sixteen ticketed concerts. In addition, during the June Festival, once again, outreach concerts were provided for 1830 attendees, none of whom paid admission. These free community concerts included a concert at each of the five Walla Walla elementary schools (total attendance 1327), four childrens concerts, one in the outlying community of Dayton and three in Walla Walla, two concerts at the VA Medical Center, and open rehearsals at three local businesses: the Odd Fellows home, Mercer Wine Estates, and Green Valley Garden.
$296,823 spent$289,862 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $296,823.
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 $237k to $387k (+63%).
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 5% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 4% · 2021 5% · 2022 5% · 2023 8% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival’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. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $28k → $80k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival’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
Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 89% · 2019 88% · 2020 50% · 2021 65% · 2022 61% · 2023 43% — 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
40% of Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 100% 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
52% of Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $209k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $231k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival?
- Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,922 to it, the largest being BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($200,522). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $439,922 in grants to Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival?
- BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,522 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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