Ohio · Nonprofit
Greater Akron Musical Association Inc
Greater Akron Musical Association Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $958,241 to it, the largest being GAR FOUNDATION ($235,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $958k
- Net assets
- $117k
What Greater Akron Musical Association Inc does
Mission
The Akron Symphony enriches the lives of audiences, musicians, and our community through exceptional symphonic music, and meaningful, collaborative, and educational programming that welcomes, connects, and engages a broad and diverse regional community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Akron Symphony Orchestra presents seven classical concerts, one Holiday Pops concert, the annual Gospel Meets Symphony concert, four performances by the Akron Youth Symphony and Philharmonic, and three performances in the City of Akron's Summer Parks Concert series. For youth, the Akron Symphony Orchestra presents Concerts for Kids series, the Head Start Music Program, and the Carnegie Hall Link Up program each spring. Close to 100,000 individuals are served in a season - including approximately 8,000 young people. The Akron Symphony Orchestra prioritizes building meaningful relationships and community ties through music. The organization is passionate about collaborations with local artists and musicians and uses those relationships to broaden its reach and serve citizens across the greater Akron area.
$1,523,874 spent$398,405 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,523,874.
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 2022 to 2023, from $861k to $479k (−44%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 16% · 2022 21% · 2023 21% · 2024 12% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of Greater Akron Musical Association Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Paul Jarrett
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $17k → $147k.
5 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $3.5M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Akron Musical Association Founda). These are real filings, and they are not money Greater Akron Musical Association Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Greater Akron Musical Association Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
Greater Akron Musical Association Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 62% · 2019 68% · 2020 48% · 2021 40% · 2022 25% · 2023 20% — 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
53% of Greater Akron Musical Association Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
70% of Greater Akron Musical Association Inc's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Greater Akron Musical Association Inc's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Greater Akron Musical 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Greater Akron Musical Association Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Greater Akron Musical 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 Greater Akron Musical Association Inc?
- Greater Akron Musical Association Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $958,241 to it, the largest being GAR FOUNDATION ($235,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Greater Akron Musical Association Inc have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $958,241 in grants to Greater Akron Musical Association Inc, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Greater Akron Musical Association Inc?
- GAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Greater Akron Musical Association Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 31 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