Tennessee · Nonprofit
Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association
Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,435 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($127,545). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $268k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $128k
- Net assets
- $708k
What Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association does
Mission
The Bryan Symphony Orchestra's mission is to engage, educate, and enrich our community through the performance of live music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To provide an orchestra of the highest artistic standards, to perform regularly a broad range of repertoire for a wide and diverse audience. To serve as a leader in the community cultural life of the Upper Cumberland area of Tennessee. And to provide quality experiences for all ages.
$68,978 spent$91,045 earned by the program60% of program spendingThis is an annual community event that is held at Dogwood Park. Patrons of the symphony underwrite the majority of the expenses with an endowment which was set up about a decade ago to be used for expenses for this event. For this event, the orchestra puton a free concert where attendees could watch in the park. Artists were invited to set up booths where they could display and sell their art. The estimated number of attendees is 2,500-3,000 individuals. We received a $5,500 Tennessee Arts Commission grant for this event.
$18,600 spentof which $5,500 as grants16% of program spendingThis is the first subscription concert of our fiscal year. We welcome patrons in for an orchestra concert where they pay for their concert tickets. This year, we hosted the Summit Piano Trio who performed a solo with the orchestra. We pay our musicians, the guest artists, and our conductor, and we supply breakfast and lunch for our musicians, and lodging for our guest musicians. After the concert, we provide beverages and snacks for patrons and musiciansto mingle.
$14,592 spent$1,545 earned by the program13% of program spendingAnnually for the past 15+ years, the Bryan Symphony hosts thousands of 4th-grade students for multiple education concerts. This year, we welcomed 2,300 students and put on three different concerts. All expenses are paid for students, including free attendance, transportation, and a pre-created education packet for teachers. Musicians are paid for their performances, and we often receive some form of grant funds to put on this program.
$12,982 spentof which $2,300 as grants11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $115,152.
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 $512k to $716k (+40%).
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 7% · 2021 12% · 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Rachel Wingo
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $39k → $42.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association’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
Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 84% · 2021 67% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
99% of Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association'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 $725 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $128k 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
Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 850 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association?
- Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,435 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($127,545). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $128,435 in grants to Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $127,545 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bryan Symphony Orchestra Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 4 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