South Carolina · Nonprofit
LOWCOUNTRY WIND SYMPHONY
LOWCOUNTRY WIND SYMPHONY (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,400 to it, the largest being FLOWERS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $58k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $100k
What Lowcountry Wind Symphony does
Mission
The Lowcountry Wind Symphony is an all-volunteer band whose mission is to provide a quality musical experience for it members while educating and entertaining audiences in our area communities The Symphony is dedicated to providing an opportunity for life-long musical expression and enjoyment for its members promoting artistic enrichment in our communities providing scholarship opportunities for students and preserving the rich repertoire and cultural history of the wind band
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Performed 7 concerts during the fiscal year approximate attendance averaged 350 per concert
$34,403 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $34,403.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $53k to $108k (+103%).
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.
92% of LOWCOUNTRY WIND SYMPHONY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 LOWCOUNTRY WIND SYMPHONY’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
LOWCOUNTRY WIND SYMPHONY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
“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
LOWCOUNTRY WIND SYMPHONY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
LOWCOUNTRY WIND SYMPHONY has grown faster than half of the 435 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 435 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like LOWCOUNTRY WIND SYMPHONY
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOWCOUNTRY WIND SYMPHONY: 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 LOWCOUNTRY WIND SYMPHONY?
- LOWCOUNTRY WIND SYMPHONY (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,400 to it, the largest being FLOWERS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOWCOUNTRY WIND SYMPHONY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $32,400 in grants to LOWCOUNTRY WIND SYMPHONY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOWCOUNTRY WIND SYMPHONY?
- FLOWERS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOWCOUNTRY WIND SYMPHONY 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 FY2026 (financials across 2024–2026), 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