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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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$245k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION$50,000
AGARITA CHAMBER PLAYERS$10,000
CHILDRENS CHORUS OF SAN ANTONIO$10,000
OLMOS ENSEMBLE$8,000
CAMERATA SAN ANTONIO$7,500
SAN ANTONIO MASTER SINGERS$7,500
YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF SAN ANTONIO$7,500
MUSICAL BRIDGES$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%AGARITA CHAMBER PLAYERS: $15k → 16%AGARITA CHAMBER PLAYERS: $10k → 16%MUSICAL BRIDGES: $5k → 16%SAN ANTONIO SYMPHONY: $200k → 16%SAN ANTONIO SYMPHONY: $165k → 16%SAN ANTONIO SYMPHONY: $115k → 16%CHILDRENS CHORUS OF SAN ANTONIO: $10k → 16%SAN ANTONIO CHAMBER CHOIR: $10k → 16%CHILDRENS CHORUS OF SAN ANTONIO: $10k → 16%YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF SAN ANTONIO: $8k → 16%SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $104k → 16%SAN ANTONIO PHILHARMONIC: $126k → 16%FIRST FINE ARTS FBCSA: $10k → 16%SAN ANTONIO PHILHARMONIC: $82k → 16%ALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION: $50k → 16%CAMERATA SAN ANTONIO: $8k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$748k · 5 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$748k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+104%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO PHILHARMONIC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $208k · revenue +132%
  • CC
    CHILDRENS CHORUS OF SAN ANTONIO
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +85%
  • OE
    Olmos Ensemble
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • SA
    San Antonio Chamber Music Societygraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +104%
  • FB
    FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SAN ANTONIO FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Chamber Choir of San Antonio

Professional Choir

Arts & Culture
2
San Bernardino Valley Concert Association
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3
San Jose Chamber Music Society

To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…

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4
Classical Music Institute Cmi

CMI's mission is to cultivate classical music education and performance as a gateway to the arts.

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5
Harmonia Stellarum Houston

Harmonia Stellarum is an ensemble of professional vocalists and instrumentalists specialized in historically informed performance practice who seek to inspire, entertain, and enlighten audiences with meaningful, historically informed…

Arts & Culture
6
North East Texas Symphony Assc

A symphony orchestra for community

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7
The Laredo Philharmonic

Primary exempt purpose is to provide the highest musical performances to engage, enrich and entertain the community with a special emphasis for children and students.

Arts & Culture
8
San Antonio Choral Society Inc

Public performance of choral music.

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9
Mozart Festival Texas

Education and arts

Arts & Culture
10
Operativo Houston

Providing paid opportunities for Houston based singers.

Arts & Culture
11
Symphonic Music for San Antonio

The corporation is organized and operated for the promotion of musical and educational activities and the organization, management, maintenance, operation and control of a symphony orchestra and of allied or kindred activities, so as to…

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12
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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Orchestras of San Antonio; the most unlike its peers is Alamo City Performing Arts Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO: $479,750 · OtherSYMPHONY SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO+3 more: $27,500 · Other+3 moreSAN ANTONIO PHILHARMONIC: $208,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO PHILHARMONICALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureALAMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATIONAGARITA CHAMBER PLAYERS: $25,000 · Arts & CultureAGARITA CHAMBER PLAYERSCHILDRENS CHORUS OF SAN ANTONIO: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENS CHORUS OF SAN ANTONIOOlmos Ensemble: $15,050 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $104,300 · PhilanthropySAN ANTONIO …
Other$507,250Arts & Culture$338,050Philanthropy$104,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee 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 budgetSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $104,300 over 1y, 0.1% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Foun…Russell Hill Rogers F…Elizabeth Huth Coates…Louis J & Millie Matc…Marcia & Otto Koehler…Betty Stieren Kelso F…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization San Antonio Symphony League funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from San Antonio Symphony League. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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.

    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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