North Carolina · Nonprofit
GREENSBORO SYMPHONY GUILD
GREENSBORO SYMPHONY GUILD (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,025 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,450). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $90k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $37k
What Greensboro Symphony Guild does
Mission
The Greensboro Symphony Guild serves as an advocate for music education and appreciation in the community, primarily by supporting the greensboro symphony orchestra, inc. Through financial, educational and promotional activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Support of the greensboro symphony orchestra and its educational programs by presenting programs to various groups in the surrounding community. Each year the 250 or so members of the guild help reach over 50,000 school children and adults through their education programs and fundraising events.
$61,884 spentof which $65,690 as grants67% of program spendingThe guild supports the greensboro symphony youth orchestra with scholarships, assistance with concerts, sectionals and mentoring programs in the schools.
$30,941 spentof which $1,000 as grants33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $92,825.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $127k to $85k (−33%).
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. 5 of the last 6 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $10k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 GREENSBORO SYMPHONY GUILD’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
GREENSBORO SYMPHONY GUILD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 GREENSBORO SYMPHONY GUILD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 83% · 2020 88% · 2021 98% · 2022 92% · 2023 87% — 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.
Where its funders are
64% of GREENSBORO SYMPHONY GUILD'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. Of the $14k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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.
Organizations like GREENSBORO SYMPHONY GUILD
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 GREENSBORO SYMPHONY GUILD?
- GREENSBORO SYMPHONY GUILD (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,025 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,450). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREENSBORO SYMPHONY GUILD have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $40,025 in grants to GREENSBORO SYMPHONY GUILD, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREENSBORO SYMPHONY GUILD?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $25,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREENSBORO SYMPHONY GUILD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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