Georgia · Nonprofit
DEKALB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
DEKALB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,827 to it, the largest being THE ARTHUR M BLANK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DEKALB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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.
- The Zeist Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Frisco Association for the Artsportfolio match
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio match
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.
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.
53% of DEKALB 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. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $16k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 DEKALB 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
DEKALB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 91% · 2020 97% · 2021 46% · 2022 69% · 2023 96% — growing more concentrated.
“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
98% of DEKALB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $819 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.
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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Zeist Foundation Incshared funderslocalGA · backs 51 organizations that share your funders · funds 109 organizations near you
- Frisco Association for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Norman Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Shore Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arthur Judson Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Huntington Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jackson Fenner Foundation Community Bank Na Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Symphony Orchestra League D/B/A League of American Orchestrasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Action Alliance Foundation Dba Clackamas County Arts Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oak Park Area Arts Councilportfolio 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 DEKALB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEKALB 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 DEKALB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
- DEKALB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,827 to it, the largest being THE ARTHUR M BLANK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEKALB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $44,827 in grants to DEKALB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEKALB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
- THE ARTHUR M BLANK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEKALB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 6funders 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