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CHORUS AMERICA ASSOCIATION

EIN 23-2062595 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$1,841,623
Expenses 2024
$2,624,576

Program services were 75.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A99
Classification
1000
Street
650 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

CHORUS AMERICA STRENGTHENS SINGING COMMUNITIES WITH THE ADVOCACY, CONNECTIONS, AND RESOURCES THEY NEED TO BE A VITAL PART OF SOCIETY.

  • MEMBERSHIP AND PUBLICATIONS - CHORUS AMERICA SUPPORTS AND SERVES CHORUSES AND CHORAL LEADERS WITH TRAINING, PEER NETWORKING, AND ACCESS TO RESOURCES SO THAT CHORUSES ARE BETTER ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR COMMUNITIES. CHORUS AMERICA'S APPROXIMATELY 6,000 MEMBERS INCLUDE CHORAL ORGANIZATIONS, CONDUCTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, BOARD MEMBERS, AND SINGERS, PRIMARILY LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. CHORUS AMERICA PUBLISHES ARTICLES AND RESOURCES FOR THE CHORAL FIELD THROUGH ITS WEBSITE, E-NEWSLETTERS, AND THE MEMBER MAGAZINE THE VOICE, AS WELL AS RESEARCH INCLUDING THE CHORUS OPERATIONS SURVEY AND THE CHORUS IMPACT STUDY REPORT. MEMBERSHIP INCLUDES ACCESS TO A SECURE ONLINE COMMUNITY WHOSE ALMOST 5,000 MEMBERS CAN CONNECT DIRECTLY WITH EACH OTHER TO SHARE EXPERTISE AND COLLABORATE.

    Expenses $518,567

  • PROJECTS - CHORUS AMERICA'S PROJECTS PROVIDE HANDS-ON, COLLABORATIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR MEMBERS IN BOTH MANAGEMENT AND ARTISTIC ROLES. IN JUNE 2025, CHORUS AMERICA HELD AN ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN ST. LOUIS, MO, GATHERING 300 ATTENDEES FOR 3 DAYS OF NETWORKING, LEARNING FROM OVER 25 SPEAKERS, AND WATCHING LOCAL CHOIRS PERFORM. AT THAT CONFERENCE AND CONTINUING VIRTUALLY UNTIL AUGUST 13TH, CHORUS AMERICA LAUNCHED THE CHORAL EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY. 5 EXPERT FACULTY WORKED WITH A COHORT OF 9 LEADERS TO AMPLIFY THEIR ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP SKILLS. SEE SCHEDULE O FOR ADDITIONAL PROGRAM.CHORUS AMERICA OFFERED THE CHORAL-ORCHESTRAL CONDUCTING ACADEMY JULY 7-13 IN FULLERTON, CA, FOR CHORAL CONDUCTORS LOOKING TO EXPAND THEIR SKILLS CONDUCTING ORCHESTRA. 24 PARTICIPANTS PARTICIPATED IN WEBINARS, CONDUCTING WORKSHOPS, PRIVATE LESSONS, AND NETWORKING LED BY A 5-MEMBER FACULTY. CHORUS AMERICA ALSO GATHERED AN AFFINITY GROUP OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS OF THEIR LARGEST BUDGET CHORUSES, WHICH DOUBLED IN SIZE FROM 30 TO 60 PARTICIPANTS, FOR VIRTUAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN JANUARY 2025 AND IN-PERSON AT CONFERENCE IN JUNE 2025.

    Expenses $939,476

  • MUSIC EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROGRAM - CHORUS AMERICA'S MUSIC EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP GRANTS ARE DESIGNED TO SUPPORT COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS DEDICATED TO CHORAL SINGING AND SCHOOLS SERVING EARLY CHILDHOOD-12TH GRADE. 23 PARTNERS LOCATED ACROSS THE PROGRAM'S FOUR REGIONS BRITISH COLUMBIA/NORTHWEST U.S., CENTRAL APPALACHIA, SOUTHWEST U.S., AND UPPER MIDWEST WERE SUPPORTED WITH GRANTS RANGING FROM $20,000-25,000 DURING THE 2024-25 SCHOOL YEAR. GRANT PARTNERS ALSO PARTICIPATED IN ONLINE PEER LEARNING AND ATTENDED CHORUS AMERICA'S ANNUAL CONFERENCE.RELATED TO THIS PROGRAM, THE REPORTED DEFICIT REFLECTS TIMING DIFFERENCES FROM A MULTI-YEAR GRANT RECOGNIZED PRIOR TO THE CURRENT REPORTING YEAR, WITH EXPENSES CONTINUING THROUGH AUGUST 2026.

    Expenses $509,500 · Grants $509,500

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • ALYSIA LEE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STEVEN SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STEVEN NEIFFER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROLLO DILWORTH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROBERT ISTAD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MOLLY BUZICK PONTIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARY DOUGHTY MAUCH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARK LAWSON

    CHAIR ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARCELA MOLINA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHN NUECHTERLEIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JEFFREY BARNETT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • IRIS DERKE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • EUGENE ROGERS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ELIZABETH NUNEZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANDREA RAMSEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANNE B KEISER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANTHONY TRECEK-KING

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANTON ARMSTRONG

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LAURA ADLERS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ERIC OLIVER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHARLES BERARDESCO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DASHON BURTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID HAYES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID MORROW

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DIANA SAEZ

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,841,623
    Expenses
    $2,624,576
    Contributions
    $1,422,314
    Grants paid
    $509,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,841,756
    Expenses
    $2,295,016
    Contributions
    $1,462,606
    Grants paid
    $479,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,817,865
    Expenses
    $2,383,374
    Contributions
    $3,498,614
    Grants paid
    $352,083

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,205,440
    Expenses
    $2,149,653
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,563,365

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,530,946
    Expenses
    $1,325,466
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,662,005

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,447,053
    Expenses
    $1,208,367
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,345,775

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,401,253
    Expenses
    $1,414,849
    Assets (EOY)
    $987,321

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,543,521
    Expenses
    $1,441,234
    Assets (EOY)
    $964,478

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.