Illinois · Nonprofit
DU PAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
DU PAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,740 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($100,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $302k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $176k
- Net assets
- $365k
What Du Page Symphony Orchestra does
Mission
Provide inspiration and cultural enrichment through musical excellence, educationalprograms, and community outreach. The dso performed 5 season concerts and 2 family concerts. We hosted/provided numerous educational outreach/community engagements.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Performances and community concert series-performed concerts in naperville, wheaton, carol stream, villa park, geneva and west chicago.
$160,925 spent$99,127 earned by the program73% of program spendingConnect with music-educational content created for schools, families, and seniors in the community.
$59,755 spent27% of program spendingYoung artists auditions- concerto competition
The 3 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $220,680.
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.
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 $251k to $321k (+27%).
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: 2019 18% · 2020 16% · 2022 36% · 2024 8% · 2025 17% · 2026 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $22k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 DU PAGE 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
DU PAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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
100% 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 DU PAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 50% · 2021 72% · 2022 71% · 2023 68% — 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
91% of DU PAGE 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 $15k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like DU PAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 DU PAGE 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 DU PAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- DU PAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,740 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($100,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DU PAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $175,740 in grants to DU PAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DU PAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DU PAGE 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2019–2026), and the filings of 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing