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Texas · Nonprofit
FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Texas) is funded by 67 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $17,068,218 in grants to it, the largest being MERCEDES T BASS CHARITABLE CORPORATION ($7,703,692). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA is funded by 67 grantmakers reporting $17.1M in grants to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 552 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
70% of FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
$121k from 7 funders in 2025, up from $223k and 12 in 2017.
10 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 funders by total. Association, not causation.
FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 61%; 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 65% · 2018 48% · 2019 40% · 2020 35% · 2021 58% · 2022 34% · 2023 48% · 2024 57% · 2025 61% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
66% of FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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.
FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA is locally rooted: 84% of its grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 67 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85k on record.
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.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
82% of spending goes to programs.
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 67funders 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. view filing