Nebraska · Nonprofit
LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,300,435 to it, the largest being Lincoln Symphony Orchestra Foundation ($1,123,333). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $153k
What Lincoln Orchestra Association does
Mission
Lincoln's symphony orchestra will present inspiring experiences that walcome all members to our community to discover and cultivate a profound, personal connection with live orchestral music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lincoln's symphony orchestra reaches more than 12,000 audience members each year with six classical concerts and two pops concerts at the lied center for performing arts. In these concerts, we offer symphonic repertoire played by our professional musicians alongside world-renowned soloists and in collaboration with local arts organizations. In an effort to be accessible to all segments of our community, we implemented affordable ticket prices of 15 and 35, with reduced-priced tickets available to young professionals and music educators. Lincoln symphony orchestra's 72 musicians also regularly volunteer their time at local nonprofits, schools, and churches. As a group, lincoln symphony orchestra's musicians and volunteers serve on more than 30 nonprofit boards in the community.
$833,272 spent$229,556 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $833,272.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $499k to $241k (−52%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 21% · 2022 15% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $176k → $340k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION’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
LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 55% · 2019 46% · 2020 50% · 2021 57% · 2022 47% · 2023 45% — 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
56% of LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
100% of LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $722k 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.
Against its field
LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $90k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$90k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: 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 LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION?
- LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,300,435 to it, the largest being Lincoln Symphony Orchestra Foundation ($1,123,333). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,300,435 in grants to LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION?
- Lincoln Symphony Orchestra Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,123,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 2021–2025), 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