Texas · Nonprofit
EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,428,102 to it, the largest being Womens Symphony League of Tyler Inc ($949,975). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What East Texas Symphony Orchestra Association Inc does
Mission
Providing the highest possible quality of symphonic entertainment through the presentation of classical and contemporary music in diverse settings. Educating, enriching and enlightening audiences, individuals, organizations, and groups about classical and contemporary music. Providing a diverse musical fabric to East Texans through the commissioning of compositions, recording performances and presentation of a variety of musical works and musicians. Becoming a premier orchestra association within our American Symphony Orchestra league peer group.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of the east texas symphony orchestra is to engage and inspire our community through exceptional music education and performance. The 2024-2025 season activities included the following:a. A full five-concert subscription series at the ut tyler cowan center, serving a cummulative audience of approximately 5,000 people.b. Continuation of annual etso/carnegie hall education program link up, culminating in four particapatory concerts presented at tyler high school and serving over 3,000 4th and 5th-grade students from tyler and surrounding communities.c. Presentation of the third annual labor day weekend symphony in the park at bergfeld park in tyler, tx. This free family concert was offered in partnership with the city of tyler and drew an audience of over 1,700 residents.d. Presentation of a concert celebrating the total eclipse of the sun, totality. The concert was presented in collaboration with tyler junior college in its new rogers palmer performing arts center. Two performances were presented, serving approximately 1,600 patrons.e. Etso continued its free summer free small ensemble programs at true vine brewing co, focusing on latin beats and honoring the local law…
$920,478 spent$355,288 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $920,478.
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.
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 $3.2M to $4.2M (+32%).
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: 2018 4% · 2019 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 22% · 2022 9% · 2023 5% · 2024 5% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
David Stein
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $126k → $191k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $1.7M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest East Texas Communities Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION 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
EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 87% · 2019 47% · 2020 99% · 2021 65% · 2022 64% · 2023 52% — 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.
How long its funders stay
71% of EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 92% give in more than one year at all.
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
98% of EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k 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.
Against its field
EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
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 Texas
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
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- East Texas Symphony Orchestra Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC?
- EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,428,102 to it, the largest being Womens Symphony League of Tyler Inc ($949,975). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,428,102 in grants to EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC?
- Womens Symphony League of Tyler Inc is the largest funder on record, with $949,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 13 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