New Jersey · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF SUMMIT SYMPHONY INC
FRIENDS OF SUMMIT SYMPHONY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,050 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($15,050). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $30k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $0
What Friends of Summit Symphony Inc does
Mission
Friends of Summit Symphony Inc was established to provide outside support for the Summit Symphony Orchestra (EIN 26-4102781), a community orchestra which was a project of the City of Summit, NJ. The city has not provided any funding to the Symphony since the financial crisis of 2008, so rather than maintain duplicate organizations Friends of Summit Symphony took over the operation of the orchestra in 2022. The Friends' classification as a "supporting organization" by the IRS has interfered with our ability to raising funds, so an entirely new organization has been created: Summit Symphony Inc, EIN 93-4284197, effective August 2024. This is our final return.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Summit Symphony performed three free concerts in the 2022-2023 season, including a student soloists' competition.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2023 to 2024, from $40k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $5k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FRIENDS OF SUMMIT SYMPHONY 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.
Where its funders are
100% of FRIENDS OF SUMMIT SYMPHONY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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.
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In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SUMMIT SYMPHONY INC?
- FRIENDS OF SUMMIT SYMPHONY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,050 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($15,050). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF SUMMIT SYMPHONY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,050 in grants to FRIENDS OF SUMMIT SYMPHONY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF SUMMIT SYMPHONY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $15,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF SUMMIT SYMPHONY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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