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CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $478,671 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ($107,775). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$403k
Revenue FY2025
9
Funders on record
$479k
Grants received
$872k
Net assets
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($339k) Expenses 100 ($361k) Net assets 100 ($169k)2018 Revenue 122 ($414k) Expenses 102 ($367k) Net assets 131 ($221k)2019 Revenue 119 ($405k) Expenses 108 ($390k) Net assets 139 ($236k)2020 Revenue 129 ($438k) Expenses 85 ($305k) Net assets 220 ($372k)2021 Revenue 118 ($399k) Expenses 54 ($194k) Net assets 376 ($636k)2022 Revenue 137 ($464k) Expenses 96 ($347k) Net assets 391 ($662k)2023 Revenue 118 ($399k) Expenses 104 ($377k) Net assets 420 ($712k)2024 Revenue 134 ($455k) Expenses 98 ($355k) Net assets 507 ($860k)2025 Revenue 119 ($403k) Expenses 121 ($437k) Net assets 515 ($872k)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (121)Net assets (515)

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 0% · 2018 7% · 2019 7% · 2020 7% · 2021 20% · 2022 34% · 2023 3% · 2024 6% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
17
$47k
18
$15k
19
$133k
20
$205k
21
$117k
22
$21k
23
$100k
24
$33k
25
9.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $15k → $57k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)53% 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 CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’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

CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

74% 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 CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.

23%
largest funder
59%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 70% · 2019 77% · 2020 43% · 2021 39% · 2022 39% · 2023 30%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.

How long its funders stay

67% of CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

53% of CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'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 $226k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states.

IL
NY
NM
DC

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

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20
21
22
23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $252k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 19%Fundraising 17%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

85%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 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 CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $478,671 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ($107,775). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $478,671 in grants to CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS is the largest funder on record, with $107,775 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing