Connecticut · Nonprofit
GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,088 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($123,050). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $730k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $439k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Greenwich Symphony Orchestra Inc does
Mission
The greenwich symphony orchestra presents the transformative power of music to a broad community audience, provides inspirational music education to thousands of students, and cultivates new works, artists, and audiences.the gso's educational outreach programs, including the popular young people's concerts, have inspired over 3,000 budding musicians each year, fostering a life-long interest in music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Production of 5 pairs of symphony orchestra concerts for the general public; average attendance is 400 per performance; includes program production costs, insurance and publicity.
$556,238 spent$327,010 earned by the program92% of program spendingProduction of one young people's concert, consisting of 2 performances, each offered free to school children as part of their music curriculum; total attendance exceeds 1,700.
$34,538 spent6% of program spendingGso in greenwich - grammar schools: production of 2 or 3 musicians providing educational demonstrations to the students.middle school: side by side concerts.high school: master classes.
$12,852 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $603,628.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.1M to $2.2M (+1%).
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: 2023 7% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 3 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
Suzanne Lio
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $19k → $57k.
4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 GREENWICH SYMPHONY 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
GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
60% 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 GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 85% · 2019 48% · 2020 26% · 2021 40% · 2022 53% · 2023 32% — 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
55% of GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
52% of GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $190k 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
GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $148k on record.
- State Aid Grants$114k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$34k
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 GREENWICH SYMPHONY 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
- GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,088 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($123,050). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $439,088 in grants to GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $123,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 23 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