Texas · Nonprofit
FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,111,861 to it, the largest being Kleinheinz Family Foundation For The Arts And Education ($1,895,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association does
Mission
See schedule o-to perform great symphonic music at the highest level of artistic excellence to educate, entertain, and enhance cultural life.-to present engaging music education programs for young people to foster early interest in and inspire lifelong enjoyment of music. -to achieve ever-greater levels of artistic accomplishment and leadership in fort worth and across the nation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Orchestral productions- we performed a 46-week concert season featuring 79 unique orchestral productions, reaching an audience of 66,000 locals and tourists. Performances included a symphonic series, a pops series, special events, and family-friendly concerts featuring an array of both national and international guest artists and conductors. Community members of all walks of life were brought together by our diverse array of programming, serving as a reminder of the unifying power of music.
$9,027,995 spent$3,402,797 earned by the program73% of program spendingEducation concerts - we performed 21 education concerts across north texas, reaching an audience of 14,500 students and families. School districts engaged include fort worth isd, weatherford isd, birdville isd, h-e-b isd, northwest isd, arlington isd, frisco isd, and keller isd. Performances provided students with interactive musical experiences that foster community connection and artistic appreciation. Community concerts and events - we produced 8 community performances and events across tarrant county that engaged approximately 4,300 adults and children, including community members from historically under-represented groups. Providing the community with meaningful outreach events helped to uplift, educate, and (cont. On sch. O) inspire people of various backgrounds while enriching the county's broader arts and culture sector.
$3,339,121 spent$340,337 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,367,116.
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 $29M to $39M (+35%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 22% · 2022 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Keith Cerny
President & CEO
Board chair
Mercedes T Bass
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $182k → $1.2M.
8 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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: $13M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mercedes T Bass Charitable Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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
FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 30% · 2019 20% · 2020 42% · 2021 33% · 2022 25% · 2023 30% — 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
64% of FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
79% of FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 30 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$85k
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 FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION?
- FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,111,861 to it, the largest being Kleinheinz Family Foundation For The Arts And Education ($1,895,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $11,111,861 in grants to FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION?
- Kleinheinz Family Foundation For The Arts And Education is the largest funder on record, with $1,895,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION 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 65 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing