Arkansas · Nonprofit
ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC
ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,287,625 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($2,052,671). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Society Inc does
Mission
The society's exempt purpose is to increase orchestral music appreciation and influence, broaden the base of public awareness of orchestral music, and to enhance cultural awareness within the state of arkansas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Concerts, performances, and activities held to increase orchestral music appreciation and influence, broaden the base of public awareness of orchestral music, and to enhance cultural awareness and potential within the state of arkansas.
$2,707,822 spent$1,154,214 earned by the program86% of program spendingEducation programs presented to influence orchestral music appreciation by community.
$200,947 spentof which $4,925 as grants$170,828 earned by the program6% of program spendingOutreach programs to community to increase appreciation of orchestral music.
$251,240 spent$351,309 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,160,009.
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 2022 to 2023, from $16M to $23M (+39%).
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 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 13% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Christina Littlejohn
Executive director
Board chair
Jan Hundley
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $143k → $1.8M.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.8M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC’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
ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 52% · 2019 49% · 2020 47% · 2021 36% · 2022 28% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“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
60% of ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
88% of ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $337k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$337k
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 ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC
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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Arkansas Orchestra Society Guild Inc · exempt
- Hot Springs-Hot Springs Village Symphony Guild Inc · exempt
- Russellville Symphony Orchestra Guild Inc · exempt
- Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC?
- ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,287,625 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($2,052,671). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $4,287,625 in grants to ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC?
- WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,052,671 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 16 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