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NEWARK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC

NEWARK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Delaware) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,230 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($16,650). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$168k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$47k
Net assets
$294k
4/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Newark Symphony Orchestra Inc does

Mission

Promotion of music awareness and education via several performances and community outreach

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Symphony series and chamber series: a series of musical performances for the newark area community featuring local orchestra musicians and soloists. The program calls for seven live performances over the course of a fiscal year.

    $135,271 spentof which $25,218 as grants
    99% of program spending
  2. Youth concert competition: local college and high school students must learn a difficult music solo and perform before a panel of professional music judges. The competition winners perform in concert with the newark symphony

    $1,300 spent
    1% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $136,571.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($128k) Expenses 100 ($76k) Net assets 100 ($260k)2022 Revenue 82 ($105k) Expenses 132 ($100k) Net assets 93 ($242k)2023 Revenue 85 ($109k) Expenses 144 ($109k) Net assets 98 ($253k)2024 Revenue 115 ($148k) Expenses 181 ($137k) Net assets 102 ($264k)2025 Revenue 131 ($168k) Expenses 182 ($137k) Net assets 113 ($294k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (131)Expenses (182)Net assets (113)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $265k to $294k (+11%).

$261k
$243k
$255k
$265k
$294k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

61% of NEWARK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$53k
’21
$5k
’22
$291
’23
$11k
’24
$31k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $12k → $7k.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 NEWARK 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

NEWARK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

91% 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 NEWARK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC.

35%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 86% · 2022 49% · 2023 85% — 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

17% of NEWARK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

91% of NEWARK 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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Delaware, across 3 states.

NY
CA
CO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Delaware out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NEWARK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding NEWARK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $104k on record.

State$104k
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Top programs
  • GRANTS$103k
  • GRANTS IN AID$2k

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 NEWARK 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds NEWARK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
NEWARK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Delaware) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,230 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($16,650). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NEWARK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $47,230 in grants to NEWARK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEWARK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $16,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEWARK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 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