Illinois · Nonprofit
WILLIAM FERRIS CHORALE
WILLIAM FERRIS CHORALE (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,500 to it, the largest being LAKESIDE SINGERS INC ($22,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $27k
What William Ferris Chorale does
Mission
Sing concerts of music of the 20th and 21st centuries
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Performed three concert series of music of the 20th and 21st centuries including many pieces by living composers and several world premiers. This year featured an Emerging Voices concert that featured students from Chicago Public Schools performing with the Chorale.
$91,898 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $91,898.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $169k to $121k (−28%).
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.
80% of WILLIAM FERRIS CHORALE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Justin Berkowitz
Executive Director
Board chair
Catherine Mascari
President of the Board of Directors
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $37k.
From the IRS filings of WILLIAM FERRIS 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
WILLIAM FERRIS CHORALE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 WILLIAM FERRIS CHORALE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 59% — 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
53% of WILLIAM FERRIS CHORALE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
WILLIAM FERRIS CHORALE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like WILLIAM FERRIS 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WILLIAM FERRIS CHORALE?
- WILLIAM FERRIS CHORALE (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,500 to it, the largest being LAKESIDE SINGERS INC ($22,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILLIAM FERRIS CHORALE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $41,500 in grants to WILLIAM FERRIS CHORALE.
- Who is the largest funder of WILLIAM FERRIS CHORALE?
- LAKESIDE SINGERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $22,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILLIAM FERRIS CHORALE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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