New York · Nonprofit
HUDSON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
HUDSON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,645 to it, the largest being T BACKER FUND INC ($23,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $168k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $89k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Hudson Festival Orchestra does
Mission
Hudson Festival Orchestra, a professional orchestra, formed in 2019 and based in the city of hudson, ny presents an annual concert for full orchestra on the hudson waterfront. Called "hudson in concert: a community celebration", it is free and open to the public. Believing that music and culture can bridge divides and build community, hfo brings diverse are residents together through live musical celebration of our shared american and diverse cultural heritages.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In september 2025 our fourth annual "hudson in concert: a community celebration" was held offering free-to-the-public performances of music and dance on the hudson riverfront. A "community sing" hosted at the city of hudson's "winter walk" was also part of the annual program.
$65,149 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $65,149.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $2k to $16k (+949%).
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.
100% of HUDSON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $8k → $18k.
From the IRS filings of HUDSON FESTIVAL 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
HUDSON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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: 2020 69% · 2021 90% · 2022 38% · 2023 31% — 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
50% of HUDSON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 42% 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
59% of HUDSON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA's grant income comes from New York 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.
Against its field
HUDSON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HUDSON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA?
- HUDSON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,645 to it, the largest being T BACKER FUND INC ($23,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUDSON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $88,645 in grants to HUDSON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUDSON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA?
- T BACKER FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUDSON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 12 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