Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC
ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,359 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($269,410). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $187k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $458k
- Net assets
- $159k
What Zamir Chorale of Boston Inc does
Mission
Performances, lectures and writings to educate and perform israeli and hebrew music along with music from other cultures
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Performances and lectures regarding multi-cultural music but primarily israeli and hebrew choral music
$120,962 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $120,962.
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 2017 to 2018, from $185k to $157k (−15%).
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 2% · 2018 9% · 2019 10% · 2020 11% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC’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. 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.
Board chair
Gilbert Schiffer
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $85k → $48k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 funders by total. 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
ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 79% · 2019 46% · 2020 84% · 2021 53% · 2022 46% · 2023 66% — broadly stable.
“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
45% of ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
82% of ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC'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 $81k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $377k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $196k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$196k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC
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In Massachusetts
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC?
- ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,359 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($269,410). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $458,359 in grants to ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC?
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc is the largest funder on record, with $269,410 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 16 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