Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
DC CONCERT ORCHESTRA SOCIETY
DC CONCERT ORCHESTRA SOCIETY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,587 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($160,500). 2 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
- $104k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $163k
- Net assets
- $41k
What DC Concert Orchestra Society does
Mission
Mission Statement: The DC Concert Orchestra Society offers a full range of member support services and musical opportunities from casual play-ins to skilled chamber and orchestral performances for non-professional adult musicians. We advance and celebrate our diverse musical heritage through our programming, our people, and our audiences across the metropolitan region to share in a lifetime of music. Supplement: DCCO is our performance orchestra program, DCCM, our performance chamber music program and the Classical Musicians of Metropolitan DC serves as a community of interest to engage amateur musicians in chamber music on an informal basis. (NTEE A69 for DCCO, A6C for DCCM, and A99 for CM-MDC)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
DC Concert Orchestra (DCCO) -- 80 piece all volunteer orchestra presenting public concerts. Performed three public concerts serving a total audience of 600.
$34,702 spent34% of program spendingDC Chamber Musicians (DCCM) -- 100 member organization providing public concerts. Staged 5 public concerts with over 50 different performing musicians (20 ensembles), reaching audiences of 350+. Presented several outreach concerts to audiences with limited access to live classical music performances. In collaboration with CM-MDC, stages five open chamber music play-ins serving 100+ musicians.
$7,979 spent8% of program spendingClassical Musicians of Metro DC (CM-MDC) -- Social media network of hundreds of amateur musicians interested in chamber music. Social media platform facilitates introductions of musicians, hosting private rehearsals, and hosting large open chamber music gatherings. In cooperation with DCCM, hosted 5 open chamber music play-ins serving 120+ musicians and supported/coordinated additional musical events.
$358 spent0% of program spendingCommon organizational overhead in support of the three programs described in Part III. Some grants are designated for the entire organization, independent of specific program.
$58,163 spent57% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $101,202.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $27k to $40k (+45%).
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.
74% of DC CONCERT ORCHESTRA SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Robert Myers
Executive Director, Board Member ex officio
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $22k.
2 of 3 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 DC CONCERT ORCHESTRA SOCIETY’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
DC CONCERT ORCHESTRA SOCIETY 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 DC CONCERT ORCHESTRA SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 91% — 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
99% of DC CONCERT ORCHESTRA SOCIETY'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $161k 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
DC CONCERT ORCHESTRA SOCIETY 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
Organizations like DC CONCERT ORCHESTRA SOCIETY
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In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DC CONCERT ORCHESTRA SOCIETY?
- DC CONCERT ORCHESTRA SOCIETY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,587 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($160,500). 2 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 DC CONCERT ORCHESTRA SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $162,587 in grants to DC CONCERT ORCHESTRA SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DC CONCERT ORCHESTRA SOCIETY?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $160,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DC CONCERT ORCHESTRA SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 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