Texas · Nonprofit
DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY
DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,278,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($569,882). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $987k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $499k
What Dallas Wind Symphony does
Mission
The Dallas Winds, a Grammy-nominated wind ensemble, stands as a cultural cornerstone of Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1985, the Dallas Winds has grown into one of the worlds premier wind bands, renowned for its extraordinary artistry and dedication to music education. The Dallas Winds mission is to brings extraordinary musicians and enthusiastic audiences together to celebrate American band music. The Vision of the Dallas Winds is to be a distinguished role model, whose artistry serves as the preeminent benchmark for instrumental ensembles worldwide by creating joyous, shared musical experiences for audiences and performers. While their performances dazzle audiences worldwide, their impact on the local community is profound and transformative.In addition to the nine concerts the Dallas Winds presents at the Meyerson each year, the Dallas Winds hosts special concerts tailored to fifth-grade students within DISD, offering many of these young individuals their first exposure to live, high-cal
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Youth and adult education is woven into every aspect of the Dallas Wind Symphonys live performances, reaching thousands of concert attendees each year. Its youth and adult education programs impact tens of thousands of youth and adults locally and regionally, while its media content in the form of audio recordings, livestreamed events, and video recordings educate and inspire millions of listeners and viewers comprised of all ages and cultures locally, nationally and around the world.
$805,941 spent$537,887 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $805,941.
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 2021 to 2022, from $422k to $728k (+72%).
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 6% · 2021 14% · 2022 5% · 2024 11% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY’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. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $52k → $160k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Halperin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY raised.
From the IRS filings of DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY’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
DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 49% · 2019 61% · 2020 48% · 2021 37% · 2022 52% · 2023 51% — 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
41% of DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
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
59% of DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY'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 $529k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $750k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.3M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY: 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 DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY?
- DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,278,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($569,882). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,278,500 in grants to DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $569,882 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 23 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