Indiana · Nonprofit
BLOOMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
BLOOMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,715 to it, the largest being BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($11,668). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $102k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $111k
What Bloomington Symphony Orchestra Inc does
Mission
Musical performance and community education about music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provide opportunities for community members to participate in full orchestra and small ensemble experience including about 35 rehearsals and performances five to seven times per year.
$13,501 spentof which $6,117 as grants46% of program spendingProvide educational opportunities for children to learn about the different instruments and music. Petting Zoo with instruments attracts 100-150 participants per year. Maintain a selection of donated instruments to be loaned to students in local schools music programs providing about 70 instruments per year. Make repairs to keep the instruments in working condition. Conduct a Competition for young musicians to perform a solo with the orchestra with awards and opportunities to be the soloist at an orchestra concert. Out of five applicants, three received a cash prize and two performed with the orchestra.
$1,640 spentof which $1,675 as grants6% of program spendingPerformances allow community members to attend concerts and learn about the music. Full orchestra concerts typically draw and audience of 300-350, while chamber concerts draw between 40-50.
$14,220 spentof which $5,004 as grants48% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,361.
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 2019 to 2020, from $93k to $112k (+20%).
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.
62% of BLOOMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Donna Lafferty
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $250 → $1k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 BLOOMINGTON 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
BLOOMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 BLOOMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 57% · 2020 75% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — 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
94% of BLOOMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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
BLOOMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
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 BLOOMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
- BLOOMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,715 to it, the largest being BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($11,668). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLOOMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $27,715 in grants to BLOOMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLOOMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
- BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,668 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLOOMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing