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LOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
LOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Louisiana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $815,020 to it, the largest being IRENE W & CB PENNINGTON PRIVATE FOUNDATION ($527,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $815k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Louisiana Symphony Association Dba Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra does
Mission
The mission of the baton rouge symphony is to enhance the quality of life in our community through music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To provide a symphony orchestra and cultural enrichment for the greater baton rouge area.
$896,293 spent$458,431 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe louisiana youth orchestras (lyo) seek to supplement and enhance music education in the schools and promote the highest standards of orchestral performance. Lyo is a program of four different ensembles that provide orchestral training through weekly rehearsals. This program services over 150 students ranging in age from 5 to 21.
$37,017 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $896,293.
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.
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 $1.0M to $1.2M (+20%).
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 9% · 2019 9% · 2020 10% · 2021 11% · 2022 27% · 2023 8% · 2024 7% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Victor Sachse
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $23k → $47k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 LOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE 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
LOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
33% 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 LOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 86% · 2019 85% · 2020 76% · 2021 78% · 2022 86% · 2023 90% — 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
63% of LOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
97% of LOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding LOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $36k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$36k
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 LOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE 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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- LOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Louisiana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $815,020 to it, the largest being IRENE W & CB PENNINGTON PRIVATE FOUNDATION ($527,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $815,020 in grants to LOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- IRENE W & CB PENNINGTON PRIVATE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $527,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 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