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Symphonic Band of the Palm Beaches Inc

To perform public concerts, provide opportunities for musical expression and growth among its membership, strive to elevate the standards of symphonic band performance and create scholarship opportunities for dedicated and talented students while providing a musical outlet for their growth and development.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$65kArts & Culture$3k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $37,615, the rows itemized in this filing. The $65,974 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $28,359 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$360k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE$8,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$5,500
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY$4,550
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA$4,000
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY$3,000
JEAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL$2,627
PALM BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOL ORCHESTRAL STRINGS FOUNDATION$2,500
BREVARD SAX INSTITUTE$1,950
DONORSCHOOSEORG$1,488
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE SOUTHEAST: $3k → 9%DONORSCHOOSEORG: $3k → 17%H2 QUARTET: $1k → 13%PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE: $8k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $5k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $4k → 13%FLORIDA BANDMASTERS ASSOCIATION: $420 → 13%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%BREVARD SAX INSTITUTE: $2k → 13%DONORSCHOOSEORG: $1k → 17%PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE: $6k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $4k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $4k → 13%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 19%PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE: $6k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $4k → 13%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 19%LAKE WORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL: $750 → 11%PALM BEACH COUNTY BAND CAMP: $2k → 11%JEAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL: $3k → 11%JEAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL: $2k → 11%FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%PALM BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOL ORCHESTRAL STRINGS FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%LAKE WORTH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 11%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$91k · 8 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$91k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+31%

Still filing today

25%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • PB
    PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +67%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $18k
  • FS
    FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k

Funded once

  • DS
    Dreyfoos School of the Arts
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • MS
    MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE SOUTHEAST FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +204%
  • PB
    PALM BEACH COUNTY BAND CAMP
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -99%
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
The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc

To educate and to nurture the local community in classical symphonic music through the utilization of its symphonic orchestra.

Arts & Culture
2
Florida Orchestra Association Inc

To promote and improve florida orchestras in both school and community; to foster professional growth of its members; and to encourage talented music students to enter the profession of music education, particularly in the area of string…

Arts & Culture
3
Palm Beach Day Academy Inc

The foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.

Education
4
Florida College Inc

Florida college, as a private, independent liberal arts college, provides a comprehensive undergraduate experience designed to develop students spiritually, mentally, physically, and socially; to integrate into the students' lives the…

Education
5
Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra Inc

See schedule o for the description of the organization's primary mission.florida symphony youth orchestras continues to educate and inspire over 300 of central florida's top young musicians that come from 10 different florida counties.…

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6
Florida School Music Association Inc

The mission of the florida school music association is to provide leadership, advocacy, and services for school music programs in support of quality music education experiences for students. the purpose of the association is to provide…

Education
7
Palm Springs Community Concert Assoc

Provide concerts for the general public

Arts & Culture
8
The Bolles School

The bolles school prepares students for college and life by inspiring excellence, courage, integrity and compassion in an academic community dedicated to nurturing mind, body and soul.

Education
9
Florida's Singing Sons Inc

Choir education

Arts & Culture
10
Education Foundation of Palm Beach County Inc

The foundation is the nexus of palm beach county's public schools, the private sector, and the community. it facilitates student achievement by supporting high quality public education through partnership, grants, events and public…

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11
Southwest Florida Concert Band Inc

To promote and develop music appreciation: band members, students and audience

Arts & Culture
12
Bonita Springs Concert Band Inc

The purpose of the Bonita Springs Concert Band is to (1) provide an opportunity for area musicians to express and develop their skills; (2) to present concerts for the people of the Bonita Springs/Lee County area to enhance their enjoyment…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Palm Beach State College Fdn Inc; the most unlike its peers is Minnesota State College Southeast Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $17,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $15,494 · OtherFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $12,600 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDAFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: $9,325 · OtherFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $8,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDASCHOOL BOARD OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $4,127 · OtherSCHOOL BOARD OF PALM BEACH COUNTYDreyfoos School of the Arts: $3,800 · Other+5 more: $6,145 · Other+5 morePALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC: $20,000 · EducationPALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN IN…DONORSCHOOSEORG: $4,104 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGMINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE SOUTHEAST FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationMINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE SOUTHEA…PALM BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOL ORCHESTRAL STRINGS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · EducationPALM BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOL ORCHES…
Other$76,991Education$29,104

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $4,104 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE SOUTHEAST FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTY BAND CAMP: $2,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLAKE WORTH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA BANDMASTERS ASSOCIATION INC: $420 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Symphonic Band of the Palm Beaches Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Symphonic Band of the Palm Beaches Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Symphonic Band of the Palm Beaches Inc 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 16 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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