Washington · Nonprofit
FEDERAL WAY SYMPHONY
FEDERAL WAY SYMPHONY (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,478 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($39,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $184k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Federal Way Symphony does
Mission
Provide the finest in live symphonic music to entertain, educate, and enrich audiences of all ages to bring high-quality approachable music to the south sound region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Federal Way Symphony presented concerts and program activities supporting the Federal Way Symphony's mission.
$112,373 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $112,373.
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 2023 to 2024, from $54k to $18k (−67%).
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: 2017 28% · 2018 31% · 2019 8% · 2020 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of FEDERAL WAY SYMPHONY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $31k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 FEDERAL WAY SYMPHONY’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
FEDERAL WAY SYMPHONY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 FEDERAL WAY SYMPHONY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 46% — 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
60% of FEDERAL WAY SYMPHONY's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $429 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.
Against its field
FEDERAL WAY SYMPHONY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FEDERAL WAY 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
87%
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 FEDERAL WAY SYMPHONY: 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 FEDERAL WAY SYMPHONY?
- FEDERAL WAY SYMPHONY (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,478 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($39,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FEDERAL WAY SYMPHONY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $74,478 in grants to FEDERAL WAY SYMPHONY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FEDERAL WAY SYMPHONY?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $39,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FEDERAL WAY SYMPHONY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 4 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