Minnesota · Nonprofit
HEARTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
HEARTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,500 to it, the largest being THE FIVE WINGS ARTS COUNCIL ($194,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $91k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $250k
- Net assets
- $13k
What Heartland Symphony Orchestra does
Mission
Provide central minnesota residents with cultural and musical enrichment through live symphony concerts and special programs; offering local musicians and students opportunities for symphonic performance training; and partnering with central minnesota education institutions in developing outstanding music education programs for area youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Heartland Symphony Orchestra presents three concert series to over 1524 people. This was their 48th anniversary season presenting quality live classical music entertainment to the central minnesota area. Heartland Symphony Orchestra is a 50-piece volunteer community orchestra from the central minnesota area.
$51,782 spent93% of program spendingGuest artists and local soloists and ensembles are brought in to perform at the concerts to make each concert unique and entertaining. Often times the special guest artists are made available for presentation of hands-on music education workshops in local schools while they are visiting the area. These music clinics are presented free to the schools and the students who attend them. Every other year, the orchestra hosts a youth competition that allows young musicians the opportunity to perform with the orchestra and receive a recording of the performance. For 2025, two receipients were selected as winners of the youth concerto competition.
$3,650 spentof which $1,000 as grants7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $55,432.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5k to $44k (+849%).
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. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $21k → $31k.
From the IRS filings of HEARTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’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
HEARTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 HEARTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 70% · 2022 62% · 2023 68% — 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
82% of HEARTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEARTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 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 HEARTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- HEARTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,500 to it, the largest being THE FIVE WINGS ARTS COUNCIL ($194,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEARTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $249,500 in grants to HEARTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEARTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- THE FIVE WINGS ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $194,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEARTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 3 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