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PACIFIC CHORALE

EIN 95-2585505 COSTA MESA, CA

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Revenue 2023
$2,868,793
Expenses 2023
$2,513,315

Program services were 79.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A6B0
Classification
1200
Street
3303 HARBOR BLVD STE E5

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 · 2023

Mission

WE INSPIRE OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH ARTISTRY AND INNOVATION IN CHORAL PERFORMANCES AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

WE INSPIRE OUR COMMUNITY THROUGHARTISTRY & INNOVATION IN CHORAL PERFORMANCES & EDUCATION PROGRAMS.

  • SEE SCHEDULE OPACIFIC CHORALE IS COMPRISED OF 200 STAFF AND VOLUNTEER SINGERS. IN ADDITION TO ITS LONG-STANDING PARTNERSHIP WITH PACIFIC SYMPHONY, THE CHORALE HAS PERFORMED WITH SUCH RENOWNED AMERICAN ENSEMBLES AS THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC, THE BOSTON SYMPHONY, THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY, SANDIEGO SYMPHONY, LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA, AND MUSICA ANGELICA. OTHER NOTED COLLABORATIONS WITHIN THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY INCLUDE THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA, LONG BEACH SYMPHONY, PASADENA SYMPHONY, AND RIVERSIDE SYMPHONY. THE GRAMMY-AWARD-WINNING PACIFIC CHORALE CAN ALSO BE HEARD ON NUMEROUS RECORDINGS. CHORALE HAS PERFORMED WITH SUCH RENOWNED AMERICAN ENSEMBLES AS THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC, THE BOSTON SYMPHONY, THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY, SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY, LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA, AND MUSICA ANGELICA. OTHER NOTED COLLABORATIONS WITHIN THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY INCLUDE THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA, LONGBEACH SYMPHONY, PASADENA SYMPHONY, AND RIVERSIDE SYMPHONY. PACIFIC CHORALE CAN ALSO BE HEARD ON NUMEROUS RECORDINGS.

    Expenses $1,356,028 · Revenue $327,800

  • SEE SCHEDULE OEDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE CENTRAL TO THE CHORALE'S VISION OF INSPIRING A LOVE OF CHORALE MUSIC AND LIFELONG LEARNING. PACIFIC CHORALE'S INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES HAVE OPENED THE DOOR TO THE ART OF CHORAL MUSIC AND THE MAGIC OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS FOR THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS AND ADULTS ANNUALLY, INCLUDING A CHORAL ACADEMY FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS MODELED ON THE EL SISTEMA MOVEMENT; A CHORAL CAMP PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON PROVIDING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH TRAINING IN MUSIC THEORY AND VOCAL PRODUCTION; A CHORAL FESTIVAL UNITING 400 SINGERS EACH SUMMER IN A FREE COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE; INTRO TO THE ARTS AND PASSAGE TO THE ARTS, PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS AND HIGH SCHOOL CHORAL DIRECTORS THAT ALLOW STUDENTS, AT-RISK YOUTH, AND LOW-INCOME FAMILIES TO ATTEND PACIFIC CHORALE PERFORMANCES FREE OF CHARGE; COMPETITIONS AND MASTER CLASSES TO NURTURE THE TALENT OF YOUNG COMPOSERS; AND CONCERT PREVIEWS THAT PROVIDE DEEPER INSIGHT INTO THE CHORALE'S PERFORMANCE REPERTOIRE.

    Expenses $636,110 · Revenue $206,470

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Robert Istad

    ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $155,900
    From this org
    $155,900
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,900
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $155,900
  • Thomas A Pridonoff

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marcia O'Hern

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Vantrease

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Bunker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Lindley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Susan Lindley

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mary A Lyons

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stephane Quinn

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Craig Springer

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Amanda Whiting

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Richard J McNeil

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ryan Ratcliff

    ARTISTS' COUNCIL PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Li Hong Wang

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brian Bates

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Maria Hall-Brown

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Julie Virjee

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rhett Del Campo

    PRESIDENT / CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    50
  • Abby Manaye

    CONTROLLER

    Total calculated
    $134,875
    From this org
    $126,255
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,620
    Hours/week
    50
  • Christopher A Brown

    PRESIDENT / CEO-FORMER

    Total calculated
    $156,820
    From this org
    $154,094
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,726
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,094
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,726
    Filer's total
    $156,820

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,868,793
    Expenses
    $2,513,315
    Contributions
    $1,661,143
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,732,702
    Expenses
    $3,038,607
    Contributions
    $1,622,838
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,737,500
    Expenses
    $2,285,457
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,030,620
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,054,612
    Expenses
    $1,263,662
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,169,114
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,940,771
    Expenses
    $1,580,812
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,166,324
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,955,283
    Expenses
    $2,036,341
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,971,310
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,679,517
    Expenses
    $1,915,244
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,034,571
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,742,672
    Expenses
    $1,915,244
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,034,571
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,948,084
    Expenses
    $1,773,542
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,289,464
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,679,334
    Expenses
    $1,694,786
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,901,272

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.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.