Mississippi · Nonprofit
MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC
MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,206,909 to it, the largest being PHIL HARDIN FOUNDATION ($500,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $382k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $78k
What Meridian Symphony Association Inc does
Mission
To promote classical music
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Symphony orchestra-classical concerts, perppermint pops concert, free childrens concert
$306,743 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $306,743.
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 2023 to 2024, from $243k to $103k (−58%).
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 3% · 2022 10% · 2023 9% · 2024 6% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC’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. 6 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
Cara Purvis
Executive director
Board chair
Alanna Burns
Educationengagement chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $109k → $132k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION 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
MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 49% · 2019 33% · 2020 43% · 2021 58% · 2022 48% · 2023 41% — 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
60% of MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
92% of MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION 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 Mississippi
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
99%
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 MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: 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 MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC?
- MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,206,909 to it, the largest being PHIL HARDIN FOUNDATION ($500,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,206,909 in grants to MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC?
- PHIL HARDIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 13 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