Maryland · Nonprofit
MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Maryland) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,049,314 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND INC ($408,968). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Maryland Symphony Orchestra Inc does
Mission
None
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The purpose is to foster, promote, and increase the music knowledge of the public, exclusively by educational activities, by organizing and presenting performances of music chosen primarily from the literature of symphony and chamber music, opera, solo recital, and vocal chorus or dance. Since the maryland symphony orchestra (mso) was established in 1982, the orchestra's annual season has expanded from four concerts to more than 20 including a classical masterworks series, mso pops concerts, home for the holidays performances, the salute to independence, middle and high school coaching and ensembles, youth concerts for 4th graders from throughout washington county and the region, and several performances in neighboring communities. As the only fully professional orchestra based in western maryland the orchestra (see section o) features internationally renowned guest artists and soloists each season, along with principal players from the ranks of the mso's 70 member ensemble. Artists and soloists offer master classes. The mso presents educational programs involving small ensembles in partnership with washington county public schools and washington county free library impacting…
$1,043,371 spent$494,019 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,043,371.
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 $4.5M to $5.4M (+21%).
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: 2021 24% · 2022 33% · 2023 24% · 2024 7% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Kimberly Bowen
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $51k → $132k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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: $11k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Washington County Arts Council Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC’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
MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 64% · 2019 46% · 2020 43% · 2021 76% · 2022 51% · 2023 34% — 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
64% of MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
58% of MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $446k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $604k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Grant$1.3M
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 MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
- MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Maryland) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,049,314 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND INC ($408,968). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,049,314 in grants to MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND INC is the largest funder on record, with $408,968 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 21 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