New York · Nonprofit
AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,612,231 to it, the largest being BARD COLLEGE ($11,131,291). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $-818751
What American Symphony Orchestra does
Mission
The mission of the aso is to renew live orchestra music as a vital force in contemporary american culture. To this end, the aso presents thematic programming, in which musical works are curated around ideas drawn from a variety of disciplines such as history, visual arts, science, politics, and literature. Aso pursues innovation in concert presentation and is devoted to the promotion of musical education. In its efforts to increase the constituency for orchestral music by making it once again a relevant and essential experience for a modern, diverse society, the aso considers itself an organization in the public's service, and a model for the survival and growth of orchestras in the twenty-first century.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Self presented - a series of concerts open to the public by purchase of individual season tickets.
$1,386,508 spent$46,806 earned by the program51% of program spendingService contracts - concerts performed by the symphony at various locations for various organizations for a fee at estimated cost.
$1,336,376 spent$1,555,312 earned by the program49% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,722,884.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.2M to $2.4M (+10%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 14% · 2022 45% · 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Oliver Inteeworn
Executive director
Board chair
Dimitri B Papadimitriou
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $2.2M → $1.2M.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 97% · 2020 95% · 2021 95% · 2022 93% · 2023 85% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
57% of AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $12M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$55k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,612,231 to it, the largest being BARD COLLEGE ($11,131,291). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $11,612,231 in grants to AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- BARD COLLEGE is the largest funder on record, with $11,131,291 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing