Ohio · Nonprofit
FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Ohio) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,316,463 to it, the largest being GEOTRAC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($372,466). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $669k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $628k
What Firelands Symphony Orchestra does
Mission
Enriching lives through music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
During the year ended may 31, 2025, the Firelands Symphony Orchestra presented live musical performances, including free orchestra concerts and free ensemble concerts.
$721,205 spent$248,772 earned by the program100% of program spendingDuring the year ended may 31, 2025, the Firelands Symphony Orchestra provided private music instruction to students on varying instruments.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $721,205.
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.
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 $833k to $1.3M (+55%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 6% · 2021 18% · 2022 23% · 2023 5% · 2024 4% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Ron Brooker
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $93k → $219k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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: $253k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Erie County Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA raised.
From the IRS filings of FIRELANDS 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
FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 56% · 2019 41% · 2020 39% · 2021 43% · 2022 35% · 2023 37% — 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
55% of FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
100% of FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 FIRELANDS 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
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 FIRELANDS 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 FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Ohio) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,316,463 to it, the largest being GEOTRAC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($372,466). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,316,463 in grants to FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- GEOTRAC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $372,466 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 14 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