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BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC

BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,525 to it, the largest being BARTLESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($78,606). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$351k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$138k
Net assets
$77k
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Bartlesville Symphony Orchestra Inc does

Mission

Providing community enrichment through arts and entertainment

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The achievements of the symphony are to operate a community symphony orchestra perfoming concerts to educate the general public in the area of symphony music

    $198,662 spent$48,447 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $198,662.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($319k) Expenses 100 ($362k) Net assets 100 ($87k)2018 Revenue 79 ($254k) Expenses 76 ($276k) Net assets 74 ($65k)2019 Revenue 75 ($240k) Expenses 66 ($239k) Net assets 76 ($66k)2020 Revenue 63 ($202k) Expenses 58 ($211k) Net assets 66 ($58k)2021 Revenue 83 ($266k) Expenses 66 ($239k) Net assets 97 ($85k)2022 Revenue 106 ($339k) Expenses 106 ($384k) Net assets 45 ($39k)2023 Revenue 101 ($321k) Expenses 96 ($346k) Net assets 17 ($15k)2024 Revenue 110 ($350k) Expenses 97 ($350k) Net assets 16 ($14k)2025 Revenue 110 ($351k) Expenses 80 ($288k) Net assets 89 ($77k)
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Revenue (110)Expenses (80)Net assets (89)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $16k to $77k (+397%).

$87k
$65k
$66k
$58k
$85k
$37k
$16k
$16k
$77k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 10% · 2018 11% · 2019 14% · 2020 19% · 2021 17% · 2022 9% · 2023 17% · 2024 8% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$42k
’17
−$22k
’18
$1k
’19
−$9k
’20
$27k
’21
−$45k
’22
−$25k
’23
−$498
’24
$63k
’25
3.2
months of
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.

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Listed212116171813131313
Joined·+0+4+7+9+3+0+8+0
No longer listed·09688080
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $21k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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

BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

85% 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 BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC.

57%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 79% · 2023 81% — 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.

Where its funders are

57% of BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $59k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from Oklahoma funders.

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OK

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Oklahoma out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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 Oklahoma

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 28%Fundraising 3%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OK

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Bartlesville Symphony Orchestra Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,525 to it, the largest being BARTLESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($78,606). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $137,525 in grants to BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
BARTLESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $78,606 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BARTLESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 6 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