New Jersey · Nonprofit
LIVINGSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
LIVINGSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,338 to it, the largest being BHARGAVA FOUNDATION ($5,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $25k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Livingston Symphony Orchestra does
Mission
The mission of the Livingston Symphony Orchestra (lso) is to foster and maintain a community focused organization dedicated to achieve the highest aspirations of musical art; to maintain and foster an interest in and enjoyment of music; to instill in its community an interest in symphonic music by providing local concerts and education programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The mission of the Livingston Symphony Orchestra (lso) is to foster and maintain a community focused organization dedicated to achieve the highest aspirations of musical art; to maintain and foster an interest in and enjoyment of music; to instill in its community an interest in symphonic music by providing local concerts and education programs.
$26,906 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,906.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $14k to $913 (−94%).
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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of LIVINGSTON 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
LIVINGSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 43% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
51% of LIVINGSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's grant income comes from New Jersey 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.
Organizations like LIVINGSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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 New Jersey
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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIVINGSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- LIVINGSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,338 to it, the largest being BHARGAVA FOUNDATION ($5,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIVINGSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $10,338 in grants to LIVINGSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVINGSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- BHARGAVA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVINGSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 5 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