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Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc
Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc (Florida) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $747,478 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCALA MARION COUNTY INC ($232,138). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $747k
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc does
Mission
To create cultural experiences and educational opportunities for our community through music. This includes symphony orchestra performances and other live entertainment at the Reilly Arts Center and the Marion Theatre in Downtown Ocala.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Ocala Symphony Orchestra is one of Marion Countys most established, and longstanding, cultural organizations. We operate a performing arts venue, the Reilly Arts Center, the Marion Theatre, a historic 1941 theatre located in Downtown Ocala, and a music school. The organization offers a variety of ways for the community to experience live music and the performing arts. The Ocala Symphony Orchestra presented its 49th season in fiscal year 2024-2025 with 12 full orchestra subscription series concerts, several themed concerts and the 35th Annual Young Artist Competition in January. Student enrollment continues to grow at the Community Music Conservatory, with more than 125 active students of all ages. Through donor support, need based scholarships were awared for youth to take lessons offered by our professional teachers and musicians. As a year-round presenting venue, the Reilly Arts Center produced 125 concerts and events throughout the year, welcoming more than 50,000 patrons.
$2,818,376 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,818,376.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $6.2M to $11M (+81%).
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: 2021 15% · 2022 39% · 2023 5% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Natalie McComb
Executive Director
Board chair
Angie Lewis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $16k → $79k.
7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 Ocala 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
Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
76% 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 Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 50% · 2019 98% · 2020 80% · 2021 38% · 2022 36% · 2023 33% — 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
40% of Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
70% of Ocala 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 $224k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $524k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $607 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $607
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 Ocala 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.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Reilly Arts Center LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc: 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 Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc?
- Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc (Florida) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $747,478 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCALA MARION COUNTY INC ($232,138). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $747,478 in grants to Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCALA MARION COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $232,138 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 15 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