Alabama · Nonprofit
MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,200 to it, the largest being THE J K LOWDER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $975k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $134k
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Montgomery Symphony Association does
Mission
The Montgomery Symphony Association is a nonprofit organization which supports the montgomery symphony orchestra. The orchestra performs concerts throughout the area in and around montgomery, alabama. The association is also dedicated to the education of young musicians of central alabama.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The symphony provides several concerts during the year featuring various musicians as well as a local symphony in montgomery. The concerts are open to the public for a charge. Additionally, the symphony promotes the musicianship of youth in the community by providing music scholarships, lessons, and the opportunity to play with a youth orchestra.
$908,516 spentof which $3,350 as grants$376,633 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $908,516.
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 $5.1M to $5.9M (+18%).
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 1% · 2018 5% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 11% · 2022 2% · 2023 5% · 2024 1% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $16k → $11k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $9k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Central Alabama Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION’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
MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 63% · 2019 64% · 2020 48% · 2021 91% · 2022 91% · 2023 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $134k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
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 MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION?
- MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,200 to it, the largest being THE J K LOWDER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $134,200 in grants to MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION?
- THE J K LOWDER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 4 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