Ohio · Nonprofit
Hamilton Symphony Orchestra Assoc
Hamilton Symphony Orchestra Assoc (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $376,942 to it, the largest being HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($316,144). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $309k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $377k
- Net assets
- $-4662
What Hamilton Symphony Orchestra Assoc does
Mission
The mission is to bring live, high quality, symphonic music to an underserved population, and to act as a facilitor of educational engagement in the region. engagementIn the facilitor role, the BPO encourages youth participation in music and the arts throughscholarships, the great Miami Youth Symphony and other youth activities and programming
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided both free and ticketed symphony orchestra music concerts to the Hamilton-Fairfield community and surrounding areas. Each concert, presented by professional paid musicians led by a professional conductor, exposes, educates, and encourages all people through various classical, pop anc chorale music art forms. We also actively reach beyond these events to promote musical education and community involvement with activites such as the Great Miami Youth Symphony Orchestra, The Hamilton Fairfield Symphony Orchestra Chorale and Scholarships.
$245,844 spent$309,223 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $245,844.
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 $30k to $86k (+192%).
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 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $27k → $51k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 Hamilton Symphony Orchestra Assoc’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
Hamilton Symphony Orchestra Assoc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 Hamilton Symphony Orchestra Assoc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 68% · 2019 82% · 2020 76% · 2021 100% · 2022 72% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
93% of Hamilton Symphony Orchestra Assoc'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 $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $352k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Hamilton Symphony Orchestra Assoc
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hamilton Symphony Orchestra Assoc: 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 Hamilton Symphony Orchestra Assoc?
- Hamilton Symphony Orchestra Assoc (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $376,942 to it, the largest being HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($316,144). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Hamilton Symphony Orchestra Assoc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $376,942 in grants to Hamilton Symphony Orchestra Assoc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hamilton Symphony Orchestra Assoc?
- HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $316,144 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hamilton Symphony Orchestra Assoc 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 6 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