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LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC

LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,982 to it, the largest being THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND ($250,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$532k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$812k
Net assets
$811k
11/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What Laporte County Symphony Orchestra Inc does

Mission

The organization's purpose is to promote the appreciation of instrumental music in laporte county, indiana and the immediate surrounding area.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The organization performs various concerts throughout the year including classical, children's and pop's instrumental musical performances. They reach over 10,000 people annually.

    $559,722 spentof which $130,325 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. The organization performs various concerts throughout the year including classical, children's and pop's instrumental musical performances. They reach over 10,000 people annually.

The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $559,722.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($219k) Expenses 100 ($184k) Net assets 100 ($134k)2021 Revenue 169 ($370k) Expenses 181 ($333k) Net assets 128 ($171k)2022 Revenue 303 ($663k) Expenses 190 ($350k) Net assets 406 ($544k)2023 Revenue 333 ($729k) Expenses 359 ($660k) Net assets 457 ($614k)2024 Revenue 346 ($757k) Expenses 295 ($543k) Net assets 616 ($827k)2025 Revenue 243 ($532k) Expenses 298 ($548k) Net assets 604 ($811k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (243)Expenses (298)Net assets (604)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 2021 to 2022, from $241k to $546k (+127%).

$144k
$241k
$546k
$615k
$829k
$813k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

62% of LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$35k
’20
$37k
’21
$313k
’22
$69k
’23
$213k
’24
−$16k
’25
1.9
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed202222181616
Joined·+6+0+1+3+0
No longer listed·40550
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $20k → $302k.

5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 LAPORTE COUNTY 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

LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

82% 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 LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC.

31%
largest funder
75%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 100% · 2019 66% · 2020 39% · 2021 44% · 2022 47% · 2023 66% — 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

60% of LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

77% of LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC'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 $188k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Indiana funders.

NY
IN
OH

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $624k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 32%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

85%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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 LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,982 to it, the largest being THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND ($250,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $811,982 in grants to LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 14 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