Oregon · Nonprofit
NEWPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
NEWPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $530,062 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($417,952). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $484k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $530k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Newport Symphony Orchestra does
Mission
To enhance the quality of life in oregon's coastal communities with diverse, inspiring performances and engaging educational activities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Orchestral concerts:the nso sponsored the annual education salem youth philharmonic concert for 300 lincoln county school district third graders to attend their first orchestral performance for free.the nso performed five symphonic masterwork concerts to over 2500 patrons from lincoln county, salem, corvallis and a few patrons who drive from portland to attend our performances.the nso hosteed solo violin soloist, benjamin baker, to visit schools in lincoln county during november, 2024.the nso featured three to four musicians at chamber ensembles recitals at the doerfler family theater located at the pacific maritime heritage center during october, 2024 and april, 2025 and may, 2025 to near capacity audiences (100).the nso featured oregon's own miss america, katie harmon ebner, as the soloist at the annual free community concert on the 4th of july, 2025 to an audience of approximately 500.the nso sponsored the newport youth symphony of the oregon coast (nysoc) with 24 student participants and 120 audience members in attendance for both the fall, 2024 and spring, 2025 concerts at the newport high school.
$304,283 spent$123,781 earned by the program90% of program spendingFree music lessons:the nso provided free weekly music lessons and instruments to 19 students for the 2024-2025 school year.
$32,778 spent$2,535 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $337,061.
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 2018 to 2019, from $234k to $804k (+243%).
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 9% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 14% · 2022 34% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of NEWPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’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. 4 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 broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $37k → $55k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 NEWPORT 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
NEWPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 NEWPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 82% · 2019 54% · 2020 81% · 2021 84% · 2022 100% · 2023 63% — 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
38% of NEWPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
79% of NEWPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'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 $112k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $418k 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
NEWPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding NEWPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $157k on record — $10k federal, $147k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
- DISTRIBUTION TO FOR-PROFIT SUBRECIPIENT$119k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$29k
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 NEWPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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 Oregon
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
93%
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 NEWPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 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 NEWPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- NEWPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $530,062 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($417,952). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEWPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $530,062 in grants to NEWPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEWPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $417,952 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEWPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 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