Washington · Nonprofit
CASCADE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
CASCADE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,300 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $219k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $494k
What Cascade Symphony Orchestra Inc does
Mission
Cascade Symphony Orchestra exists to nourish its musicians and the community by providing inspiring performances of outstanding music, educational outreach to children, opportunities for young musicians to play with the Orchestra, college scholarships for high school musicians and tuition assistance for summer music school.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cascade Symphony provides a series of high-quality music concerts for the public. The concerts are high-energy, engaging, and affordable and regularly attract a large and supportive crowd of community members. Each concert has a capacity of 700 attendees, and in non-Covid seasons, regularly are sold out. Cascade Symphony concerts feature an educational pre-concert lecture, a performance by a well-regarded soloist or soloists, and a post-concert reception.
$126,986 spentof which $17,200 as grants$55,998 earned by the program68% of program spendingProvides opportunities for more than 80 volunteer, amateur musicians to rehearse together in a nurturing, supportive environment. Cascade Symphony Orchestra provides its musicians the opportunity to continually develop and deepen their musicianship while preparing and presenting inspiring concerts of outstanding music.
$36,189 spent19% of program spendingCascade Symphony Orchestra provides educational outreach to youth and support for young musicians. An annual Children's Concert with music specifically tailored for young children is presented. The concert features a young Rising Star instrumental soloist(s) accompanied by the Orchestra. Included in the Children's Concert is the opportunity to learn about music in a fun teaching session featuring Cascade Symphony musicians. During Covid times the Children's Concert was offered online, available to all at no charge. Cascade Symphony also provides college scholarships to high school seniors intending to continue their musical studies in college.
$22,598 spent$4,775 earned by the program12% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $185,773.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $563k to $495k (−12%).
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: 2021 31% · 2022 16% · 2023 19% · 2024 16% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of CASCADE 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. 4 of the last 5 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
Edward Benyas
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $181 → $184.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 CASCADE 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
CASCADE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
61% 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 CASCADE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 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
96% of CASCADE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's grant income comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $800 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CASCADE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CASCADE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CASCADE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
- CASCADE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,300 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CASCADE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $58,300 in grants to CASCADE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CASCADE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CASCADE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2021–2025), 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