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EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY

EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY (California) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,353,783 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($850,050). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.0M
Funders on record
45
Grants received
$4.4M
Net assets
$4.6M
26/45 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY does

Mission

(continued from previous page) perpetuation of the performing arts. Additional information is provided in Schedule O.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Symphonic performances and artistic collaborationsIn fostering development of the performing arts, Oakland Symphony collaborates with other arts organizations and showcases new American works and young artists. The Symphony has partnered with several organizations and performers to create a commissioning and performance program for new works by American composers.

    $1,480,964 spent$508,394 earned by the program
    60% of program spending

  2. EDUCATION AND OUTREACHUnder the legacy of Maestro Morgan, Oakland Symphony reaches over 75,000 adults and students each year, with significant resources dedicated to education and outreach. These programs include acclaimed education programs collectively known as MUSE (Music for excellence), comprised of young people's concerts, orchestra ensembles, in-school music lessons and mentoring, and regular school visits by musicians. Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra performs 4 concerts each season and practices weekly, Bridge program provides private lessons for students advancing from MUSE orchestra to YouthOrchestra. The Symphony's various education programs serve over 21,000 young people each year.

    $686,192 spent$205,700 earned by the program
    28% of program spending

  3. The symphony brings together the talents and resources of diverse artistic groups in the community in collaborative performances, joining together to promote a lively arts environment to serve a wide range of audiences.community service --the symphony serves a community with a rich mix of cultural, racial and economic groups and is an important vital force in oakland and the east bay, contributing to the creativity and cultural diversity of the community. It provides a forum for community involvement and nurtures an atmosphere of understanding and creativity, making music not only relevant, but essential to our society.

    $288,804 spent
    12% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,455,960.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.9M) Expenses 100 ($2.8M) Net assets 100 ($2.7M)2018 Revenue 91 ($2.7M) Expenses 101 ($2.8M) Net assets 92 ($2.5M)2019 Revenue 84 ($2.5M) Expenses 104 ($2.9M) Net assets 76 ($2.0M)2020 Revenue 105 ($3.1M) Expenses 112 ($3.2M) Net assets 71 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 61 ($1.8M) Expenses 55 ($1.5M) Net assets 93 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 183 ($5.4M) Expenses 115 ($3.2M) Net assets 157 ($4.2M)2023 Revenue 114 ($3.3M) Expenses 132 ($3.7M) Net assets 121 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 148 ($4.3M) Expenses 141 ($4.0M) Net assets 141 ($3.8M)2025 Revenue 135 ($4.0M) Expenses 123 ($3.4M) Net assets 172 ($4.6M)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (123)Net assets (172)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3.7M to $5.2M (+41%).

$3.1M
$2.9M
$3.0M
$2.6M
$3.5M
$4.5M
$3.7M
$5.2M
$5.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 1% · 2019 4% · 2020 2% · 2021 18% · 2022 16% · 2023 16% · 2024 30% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

76% of EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$128k
’17
−$164k
’18
−$451k
’19
−$71k
’20
$268k
’21
$2.1M
’22
−$372k
’23
$379k
’24
$524k
’25
0.9
months of
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.

Chief executive

Mieko Hatano

CEO

Board chair

Bette Epstein

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed292120242022272727
Joined·+3+5+7+2+7+5+3+0
No longer listed·116365030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $269k → $568k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
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'25*
total
San Francisco Symphonyunclassified
$10k
funders
15
13
15
19
15
19
17
14
10

14 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 funders by total. 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

EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

47% 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 EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY.

20%
largest funder
44%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 29% · 2019 30% · 2020 24% · 2021 45% · 2022 27% · 2023 31% — 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.

How long its funders stay

45% of EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

78% of EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
MD
DE
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.

Federal$50k
grants $50kcontracts $0
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19
23
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$50k

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 EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND 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 California

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra86%San Francisco Symphony85%California Symphony Orchestra Inc85%California Symphony Endowment Fund84%Long Beach Symphony Association83%Pacific Symphony83%The San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association83%Sequoia Symphony Orchestra83%

Nationally

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra86%San Francisco Symphony85%California Symphony Orchestra Inc85%Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra84%Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc84%Pittsburgh Symphony Inc84%Omaha Symphony Association84%California Symphony Endowment Fund84%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 15%Fundraising 14%

Governance

27
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

80%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY?
EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY (California) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,353,783 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($850,050). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY have?
IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $4,353,783 in grants to EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY?
THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $850,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 45 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