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LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD

LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD (South Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,775 to it, the largest being GAYLORD AND DOROTHY DONNELLEY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$721k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$242k
Net assets
$59k
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Long Bay Symphonic Society Ltd does

Mission

To provide the highest quality musical performances and programs that educate and entertain while enhancing the cultural environment of the region.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide public music performances and music education, and providing the highest quality musical performances and programs that educate and entertain while enhancing the cultural environment of the region.

    $694,550 spent$720,828 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $694,550.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($479k) Expenses 100 ($431k) Net assets 100 ($16k)2018 Revenue 100 ($477k) Expenses 112 ($483k) Net assets 62 ($10k)2019 Revenue 111 ($533k) Expenses 123 ($530k) Net assets 82 ($13k)2020 Revenue 104 ($499k) Expenses 111 ($479k) Net assets 200 ($33k)2021 Revenue 83 ($395k) Expenses 74 ($321k) Net assets 656 ($107k)2022 Revenue 142 ($680k) Expenses 148 ($637k) Net assets 920 ($150k)2023 Revenue 162 ($774k) Expenses 176 ($760k) Net assets 1003 ($163k)2024 Revenue 144 ($690k) Expenses 167 ($720k) Net assets 817 ($133k)2025 Revenue 151 ($721k) Expenses 184 ($794k) Net assets 365 ($59k)
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Revenue (151)Expenses (184)Net assets (365)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $269k to $193k (−28%).

$85k
$60k
$88k
$158k
$219k
$269k
$193k
$151k
$123k
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 17% · 2018 27% · 2019 27% · 2020 22% · 2021 37% · 2022 30% · 2023 27% · 2024 24% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
’17
−$6k
’18
$3k
’19
$19k
’20
$74k
’21
$43k
’22
$14k
’23
−$30k
’24
−$74k
’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.

Chief executive

Shannon Farro

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed9715151617221715
Joined·+1+12+0+4+1+6+1+6
No longer listed·34030168
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $28k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD’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

LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

45% 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 LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD.

41%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 39% · 2019 35% · 2020 64% · 2021 47% · 2022 50% · 2023 54% — 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 LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 4 states in all.

IL
NY
SC
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD

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 South Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 12%Fundraising 1%

Governance

15
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

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Questions and answers

Who funds LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD?
LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD (South Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,775 to it, the largest being GAYLORD AND DOROTHY DONNELLEY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $241,775 in grants to LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD?
GAYLORD AND DOROTHY DONNELLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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