Florida · Nonprofit
GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC
GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $409,200 to it, the largest being Doctorbird Foundation ($195,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $775k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $409k
- Net assets
- $579k
What Gainesville Chamber Orchestra Inc does
Mission
The gainesville chamber orchestra will provide to alachua county and surrounding areas quality programs through traditional and contemporary repertoire, which will entertain, enrich and educate a diverse and broad-based audience.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
The gainesville orchestra is gainesville's only professional orchestra. We have seven, typically sold out, concerts each year. We also have an annual children's concert where we bus in 1,500 area school children to see their first live orchestra concert. The orchestra performs by invitation in st. Augustine for the prestigious emma concert series. Every year we have broadway singers who perform with our orchestra for a very special audience experience. At our pops concert each year we invite the audience to walk throughout the orchestra while they are performing to immerse themselves in the performance on the stage. We also invite prominent local artists to paint a portrait on stage while the orchestra plays, completing the work of art before the performance is over. Disney chose gainesville orchestra to be the first orchestra in the world to perform the music from "frozen," which is proof of the high regard for our maestro and orchestra. We now operate a children's mentoring program where we teach violin lessons to approximately 150 students at two elementary schools. We provide 90 violins for student use and pay qualified instructors, with instructional costs exceeding $4,000…
$505,771 spent$129,555 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $505,771.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2025 to 2026, from $361k to $579k (+60%).
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: 2018 25% · 2019 19% · 2020 23% · 2021 22% · 2022 26% · 2023 23% · 2024 27% · 2025 14% · 2026 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $26k → $55k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 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
GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 100% · 2019 38% · 2020 57% · 2021 91% · 2022 91% · 2023 45% — 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.
Where its funders are
GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180k 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.
Against its field
GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 630 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 630 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$16k
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 GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC?
- GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $409,200 to it, the largest being Doctorbird Foundation ($195,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $409,200 in grants to GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC?
- Doctorbird Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $195,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GAINESVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2018–2026), and the filings of 5 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