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NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,233 to it, the largest being DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ENDOWMENT INC ($39,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $86k
- Net assets
- $63k
What New Texas Symphony Orchestra does
Mission
The New Texas Symphony Orchestra is a community arts group of all-volunteer dues-free musicians that performs free concerts for the general public. NTSO performed three free formal in-person concerts and four free in-person community events this season.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
October 20, 2024 - Coming of Age: Hope presented works by three post-Romantic composers who honor their beginnings in their unique ways. Smetana's "Moldau" lead the 315 attendees along the Czech river, from its source through the countryside and mountains to Prague. Faure's "Ballade" models the form and grace of Chopin's works but with harmonies distinctly French. The featured pianist was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and, as the Artistic Director of the Blue Candlelight Music Series in Dallas, Texas, she continues to make a significant impact as a chamber music artist and concerto soloist. Finally, the 67-member Orchestra played Florence Price's Third Symphony, which revealed African American and modernist elements and received a well deserved standing ovation.
$8,632 spentof which $4,500 as grants30% of program spendingMarch 9, 2025 - Coming of Age: Adventure started off with the seaworthy quest of Swedish composer, Helena Munktell's, Breaking Waves. From the surf to the streets, we followed with NTSO's commissioned work, Zeeskyzii, by local artist, Zion Pullman. The creator of the storyline, along with the artwork and music, Mr. Pullman took us through a journey with his team of heroes: a boy and his loyal animal friends, as they struggle to balance hero life with real life. Mr. Pullman attended the performance and received a standing ovation for his work and AV presentation from the 364-member audience. Our final work for the day, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2, took us through the countryside of Tchaikovsky's sister's county home in Ukraine. Incorporating melodies of the region's folksongs, the symphony is a tribute to the unique offerings of this independent country.
$6,892 spent24% of program spendingMay 11, 2025 - Coming of Age: Wisdom. We had our third concert on Mother's Day began with Rimsky-Korsakov's Cortege and his orchestration blending different instruments in the most exciting ways. Next up, we had Skinny Cooks, who brought a fresh and innovative approach to symphonic music. And finally, we had Dvorak's Symphony No. 8 incorporating folk music into the Romantic Period. We partnered with Skinny Cooks again on May 23rd with a small combo playing with them at the South Dallas Cultural Center. On May 24th a string quartet composed of members from the orchestra played at Bonton Farms Market Café. All these events allowed the Orchestra to reach audiences that are under-served by the symphonic community.
$12,976 spentof which $8,665 as grants46% of program spendingThe NTSO brought a free 1-hour concert full of holiday joy to over 200 shoppers at NorthPark Center (Dallas) on December 6, 2024. And, repeated it for over 100 shoppers at The Shops at RedBird (Dallas) on December 7, 2024.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $30k to $51k (+69%).
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.
100% of NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Aida Boyce
Executive Director
Board chair
Alec Horton
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100 → $144.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’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
NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Texas
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,233 to it, the largest being DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ENDOWMENT INC ($39,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $86,233 in grants to NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $39,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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