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LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION INC

LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,402 to it, the largest being SARA & SOLOMAN HARTMAN FAMILY CHARITABLE ($53,902). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$12k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$81k
Net assets
$3.5M
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What Lafayette Symphony Foundation Inc does

Mission

Support of the lafayette symphony orchestra.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Distribution of allocated income from various funds held by the foundation, to the lafayette symphony orchestra, in accordance with instructions specified by donors and board of directors.

    $178,908 spentof which $178,908 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $178,908.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($326k) Expenses 100 ($282k) Net assets 100 ($2.7M)2018 Revenue 137 ($446k) Expenses 52 ($148k) Net assets 103 ($2.7M)2019 Revenue 7 ($22k) Expenses 54 ($153k) Net assets 101 ($2.7M)2020 Revenue 112 ($364k) Expenses 53 ($150k) Net assets 104 ($2.8M)2021 Revenue 68 ($220k) Expenses 55 ($155k) Net assets 133 ($3.5M)2022 Revenue 265 ($863k) Expenses 66 ($186k) Net assets 114 ($3.0M)2023 Revenue -6 ($-18070) Expenses 61 ($171k) Net assets 115 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 33 ($109k) Expenses 60 ($170k) Net assets 124 ($3.3M)2025 Revenue 4 ($12k) Expenses 71 ($201k) Net assets 131 ($3.5M)
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Revenue (4)Expenses (71)Net assets (131)Peer revenue range

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 $2.9M to $3.7M (+27%).

$2.8M
$2.9M
$2.8M
$2.9M
$3.7M
$3.2M
$3.2M
$3.5M
$3.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

35% of LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$43k
’17
$298k
’18
−$130k
’19
$214k
’20
$66k
’21
$677k
’22
−$189k
’23
−$61k
’24
−$189k
’25
1.3
months of
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.

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Listed19211717171610107
Joined·+2+1+6+0+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·05601604
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $4k.

Funder
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'21
'22
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'25*
total
funders
1
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 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

LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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

34% 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 LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION INC.

66%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 54% · 2019 55% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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

100% of LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

IN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Indiana out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 96% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−1513% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−33% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 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 Indiana

The Lafayette Symphony Inc89%Northwest Indiana Symphony Society Inc82%Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Foundation Inc81%Lafayette Christian School Foundation80%Orchestra Indiana Inc79%Anderson Symphony Orchestra Assoc79%Indiana Symphony Society Inc78%Terre Haute Symphony Association Inc78%

Nationally

The Lafayette Symphony Inc89%Shreveport Symphony Inc85%Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra Foundation Inc84%Waco Symphony Foundation84%Grand Rapids Symphony Foundation84%El Paso Symphony Foundation84%Foundation for the Long Beach Symphony84%Danville Symphony Orchestra Foundation Inc83%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Lafayette Symphony Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION INC: 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 LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION INC?
LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,402 to it, the largest being SARA & SOLOMAN HARTMAN FAMILY CHARITABLE ($53,902). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $81,402 in grants to LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION INC?
SARA & SOLOMAN HARTMAN FAMILY CHARITABLE is the largest funder on record, with $53,902 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAFAYETTE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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