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San Antonio Symphony League

Preserve, advance and cultivate classical music by supporting and promoting live performances, providing financial assistance and service, and supporting and creating educational efforts/programs of nonprofit classical music organizations in bexar county, texas.

$106k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
83%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$245k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 83% of the organizations San Antonio Symphony League funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’23’24
Arts & CultureOther
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 arriving8$106k63%
FY20246$134k83%
FY20231$126k100%
FY20211$115k0%
FY20201$165k0%
FY20191$200kn/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$950k

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
Symphony Society of San Antonio$479,75033%
San Antonio Philharmonic$208,00023%
Alamo City Performing Arts Association$50,0001n/a
Agarita Chamber Players$25,00022%
Childrens Chorus of San Antonio$20,00022%
Olmos Ensemble$15,05027%
San Antonio Chamber Music Society$10,000117%
First Baptist Church of San Antonio Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a
Youth Orchestras of San Antonio$7,50010%
San Antonio Mastersingers$7,50018%
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All grantees of San Antonio Symphony League by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Symphony Society of San Antonio$479,75033%
San Antonio Philharmonic$208,00023%
Alamo City Performing Arts Association$50,0001n/a
Agarita Chamber Players$25,00022%
Childrens Chorus of San Antonio$20,00022%
Olmos Ensemble$15,05027%
San Antonio Chamber Music Society$10,000117%
First Baptist Church of San Antonio Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a
Youth Orchestras of San Antonio$7,50010%
San Antonio Mastersingers$7,50018%
Camerata San Antonio$7,50017%
Musical Bridges Around the World Inc$5,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget San Antonio Symphony League supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSymphony Society of San Antonio: $479,750 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetSan Antonio Philharmonic: $208,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetAgarita Chamber Players: $25,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetChildrens Chorus of San Antonio: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetOlmos Ensemble: $15,050 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetSan Antonio Chamber Music Society: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetYouth Orchestras of San Antonio: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Antonio Mastersingers: $7,500 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetCamerata San Antonio: $7,500 over 1y, 6.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

San Antonio Area FoundationTX23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Louis J & Millie Matcek Kocurek Charitable · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to San Antonio Symphony League?

Find your warmest path to San Antonio Symphony League through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About San Antonio Symphony League

How much does San Antonio Symphony League give?
San Antonio Symphony League reported 8 grants totaling $105,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does San Antonio Symphony League fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
Who are San Antonio Symphony League's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Symphony Society of San Antonio ($480k), San Antonio Philharmonic ($208k), Alamo City Performing Arts Association ($50k).
Does San Antonio Symphony League fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as San Antonio Symphony League?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts, Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992.
Where is San Antonio Symphony League based?
San Antonio Symphony League is based in TX.

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 13 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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