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FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC

FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,782,396 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($2,192,569). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$792k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$3.8M
Net assets
$817k
10/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 87%
01What it does

What Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra Association Inc does

Mission

We are a regional professional orchestra that enriches and nurtures the human spirit through inclusive symphonic music and education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Subscription and ticketed orchestral concerts in a hall with 2,000 seats.

    $483,578 spent$210,614 earned by the program
    78% of program spending

  2. Maintain youth orchestra program with 3 student orchestras.

    $67,616 spent$40,390 earned by the program
    11% of program spending

  3. Outreach programming for elementary school students, special needs students and adults, and assisted living facilities to encourage music and movement to enhance communication and connection.

    $9,889 spent
    2% of program spending

  4. Perform outreach concerts in the community in other venues to increase access and reduce ticket cost to reach more community members.

    $55,096 spent$7,400 earned by the program
    9% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $616,179.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($961k) Expenses 100 ($891k) Net assets 100 ($956k)2018 Revenue 93 ($894k) Expenses 98 ($876k) Net assets 105 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 89 ($859k) Expenses 101 ($899k) Net assets 102 ($976k)2020 Revenue 68 ($652k) Expenses 89 ($791k) Net assets 87 ($832k)2021 Revenue 82 ($787k) Expenses 45 ($404k) Net assets 141 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 68 ($656k) Expenses 85 ($759k) Net assets 124 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 71 ($687k) Expenses 99 ($885k) Net assets 91 ($867k)2025 Revenue 82 ($792k) Expenses 102 ($910k) Net assets 85 ($817k)
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Revenue (82)Expenses (102)Net assets (85)

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 $1.0M to $1.4M (+42%).

$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.2M
$1.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2021 14% · 2022 13% · 2024 2%. 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$70k
’17
$18k
’18
−$40k
’19
−$140k
’20
$383k
’21
−$102k
’22
−$199k
’24
−$118k
’25
4.8
months of
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

Jamie La Freniere

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed2020172421252119
Joined·+1+4+8+2+6·+1
No longer listed·17152·3
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $292k → $215k.

Funder
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total
The Boldt Family Fund Incunclassified
$540k
funders
5
6
6
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7
6
6
7
3

7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 FOX VALLEY 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

FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC.

58%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 64% · 2019 71% · 2020 73% · 2021 49% · 2022 84% · 2023 54% — growing more concentrated.

“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

56% of FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 4 states in all.

MN
WI
NY
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $966k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k

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 FOX VALLEY 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 Wisconsin

Manitowoc Symphony Orchestra Assoc85%La Crosse Symphony Orchestra Inc85%Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra Inc84%Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc83%Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc83%Racine Symphony Orchestra Association Inc83%The Grand Oshkosh Inc83%Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Inc82%

Nationally

American Symphony Orchestra87%Fox Valley Music Consortium87%Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc87%Firelands Symphony Orchestra87%Florence Symphony Orchestra86%Springfield Symphony Orchestra Association86%Rogue Valley Symphony Association86%Phoenix Symphony Association86%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 23%Fundraising 9%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

78%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: 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 FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC?
FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,782,396 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($2,192,569). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $3,782,396 in grants to FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC?
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is the largest funder on record, with $2,192,569 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 16 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