California · Nonprofit
Long Beach Symphony Association
Long Beach Symphony Association (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,126,491 to it, the largest being PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH ($952,213). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Long Beach Symphony Association does
Mission
The mission of the Long Beach Symphony Association is to engage audiences of all ages and cultures through exceptional orchestral performances, community partnerships and meaningful educational experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Long Beach Symphony Association (the association) is a california nonprofit corporation. Its mission is to enrich the community by providing high quality traditional and contemporary symphonic music and educational experiences. Its primary purpose is to support and promote the activities of the long beach symphony orchestra. These activities include a classical series, a pops! Series, and outreach concerts which cumulatively reach 70,500 patrons annually. The association also offers comprehensive education programs in collaboration with the long beach unified school district and other educational institutions, created in alignment with state visual and performing arts standards, and through these programs presents over 80 free educational performances serving more than 28,000 students in the schools each year.
$2,859,801 spentof which $18,941 as grants$927,547 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,859,801.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $4.4M to $5.6M (+26%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 4% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 22% · 2022 25% · 2023 32% · 2024 12% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of Long Beach Symphony 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. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Cindy Costello
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $52k → $587k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation for the Long Beach Symphony). These are real filings, and they are not money Long Beach Symphony Association raised.
From the IRS filings of Long Beach Symphony 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
Long Beach Symphony Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 Beach Symphony Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 44% · 2019 43% · 2020 35% · 2021 63% · 2022 23% · 2023 41% — 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
54% of Long Beach Symphony Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
94% of Long Beach Symphony Association's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $586k 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.
Against its field
Long Beach Symphony Association runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Long Beach Symphony Association receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $305k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$305k
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 Long Beach Symphony 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Foundation for the Long Beach Symphony · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Long Beach Symphony 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 Long Beach Symphony Association?
- Long Beach Symphony Association (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,126,491 to it, the largest being PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH ($952,213). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Long Beach Symphony Association have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $3,126,491 in grants to Long Beach Symphony Association, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Long Beach Symphony Association?
- PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH is the largest funder on record, with $952,213 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Long Beach Symphony Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 22 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing