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Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

The mission of the st. Louis symphony orchestra (slso) is to enrich lives through the power of music. The slso provides orchestra concerts, community programs, and educational resources for the st. Louis community and beyond.

$6.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,852,526
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,852,526
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$232M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$6.9M0%
FY20241$689k0%
FY20231$139k0%
FY20221$1.3M0%
FY20211$11M0%
FY20201$265k0%
FY20191$167kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$21M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Saint Louis Symphony Endowment Trust$20,756,006760%

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About Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

How much does Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra give?
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra reported 1 grants totaling $6,852,526 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
Who are Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Saint Louis Symphony Endowment Trust ($21M).
Does Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra based?
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra is based in MO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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