Montana · Nonprofit
MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS
MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $52k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras does
Mission
The purpose of the Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras (maso)is to encourage, promote and assist in the maintenance and development of musical programs of quality throughout the state of montana. Maso is a state-wide membership organization that shares resources, encourages networking, and supports members symphonies, staff, volunteers, and board members.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The outreach program is in place to encourage, promote and assist in the maintenance and development of musical programs of quality throughout the state of montana by sharing resources, encouraging networking and supporting member symphonies staff, volunteers and board members.
Every two years montana music students are invited to compete for opportunities to perform with montana's symphony orchestras and win cash prizes in the Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras (maso) young artist competition. The maso young artist competition is open to montana musicians ages 13 to 22 to perform a work for solo instrument with orchestral accompaniment.
$41,519 spent88% of program spendingMaso obtains music compositions and maintains an extensive library for the seven member symphonies to use as needed.
$5,671 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,190.
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 2022 to 2023, from $71k to $53k (−25%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
From the IRS filings of MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS’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
MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS?
- MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,000 in grants to MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS?
- DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 2 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