Texas · Nonprofit
LONGVIEW SYMPHONY LEAGUE
LONGVIEW SYMPHONY LEAGUE (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,431 to it, the largest being THE CRAIN FOUNDATION ($154,350). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $357k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $157k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Longview Symphony League does
Mission
The Longview Symphony League was formed to promote and increase the musical knowledge of the public by promoting performances of music in programs chosen primarily from the literature of symphonic music, chamber music, opera, solo recitals, vocal chorus or the dance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization organized and produced live concerts to provide quality musical events for the public.
$220,554 spent$84,705 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $220,554.
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 2020 to 2021, from $35k to $118k (+233%).
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: 2020 17% · 2021 48% · 2022 53% · 2023 36% · 2024 40% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of LONGVIEW SYMPHONY LEAGUE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $22k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $87k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Longview Symphony Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LONGVIEW SYMPHONY LEAGUE raised.
From the IRS filings of LONGVIEW SYMPHONY LEAGUE’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
LONGVIEW SYMPHONY LEAGUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of LONGVIEW SYMPHONY LEAGUE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LONGVIEW SYMPHONY LEAGUE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LONGVIEW SYMPHONY LEAGUE
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 Texas
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.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Longview Symphony Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LONGVIEW SYMPHONY LEAGUE: 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 LONGVIEW SYMPHONY LEAGUE?
- LONGVIEW SYMPHONY LEAGUE (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,431 to it, the largest being THE CRAIN FOUNDATION ($154,350). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LONGVIEW SYMPHONY LEAGUE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $157,431 in grants to LONGVIEW SYMPHONY LEAGUE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LONGVIEW SYMPHONY LEAGUE?
- THE CRAIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $154,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LONGVIEW SYMPHONY LEAGUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 3 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