Michigan · Nonprofit
DEARBORN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY INC
DEARBORN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY INC (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,925 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($62,735). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
DEARBORN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY INC has grown faster than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Houston Arts Alliancelocal
- Bruckner Society of Americaportfolio match
- American Symphony Orchestra League D/B/A League of American Orchestrasportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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: 2020 11% · 2021 25% · 2022 12% · 2023 11% · 2024 5% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of DEARBORN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY 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 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $13k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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: $275k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dearborn Orchestral Society Endowment Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money DEARBORN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of DEARBORN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY 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
DEARBORN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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
68% 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 DEARBORN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 56% · 2020 100% · 2021 63% · 2022 95% · 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
68% of DEARBORN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY INC'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 $29k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k 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.
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.
- Houston Arts AlliancelocalTX · funds 261 organizations near you
- Bruckner Society of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Symphony Orchestra League D/B/A League of American Orchestrasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peter & Julie Fisher Cummings Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Culturesourceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James and Lynelle Holden Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Burton a Zipser and Sandra D Zipser Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E Nakamichi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Karen & Drew Peslar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Donald and Mary Kosch Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Taca Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James and Cleo Hamilton Family Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 DEARBORN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY INC
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 DEARBORN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DEARBORN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY INC?
- DEARBORN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY INC (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,925 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($62,735). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DEARBORN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $91,925 in grants to DEARBORN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEARBORN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $62,735 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEARBORN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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