Washington · Nonprofit
Olympia Symphony Orchestra
Olympia Symphony Orchestra (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $418,953 to it, the largest being The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound ($274,628). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $520k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $419k
- Net assets
- $916k
What Olympia Symphony Orchestra does
Mission
To provide the highest quality live music to enrich educate and entertain an expanding audience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In the 24-25 season the Olympia Symphony presented seven orchestral concerts for a combined audience of over 8,000 patrons. The ensemble of 65 musicians were joined by artists from around the nation. Smaller ensembles provided free concerts in retirement centers and at a regional summer festival to engage the community beyond the concert hall.
$397,130 spent$235,108 earned by the program85% of program spendingDuring the 24-25 season the Orchestra continued its commitment to education through the Carnegie Hall Link Up program providing over 800 fourth grade students recorders and and a curriculum to learn musical pieces as part of their public school curriculum. The students attended a free concert in which they performed these pieces with the Symphony and learned more about key elements of rhythm melody and music composition. Local music students also received masterclass instruction from visiting guest artists and the Orchestra continued its Young Artist Concerto Competition offering feedback to aspiring performers and the opportunity to take center stage to perform a work with the Olympia Symphony.
$68,262 spent$4,451 earned by the program15% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $465,392.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $434k to $1.1M (+149%).
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 5% · 2018 14% · 2019 34% · 2020 2% · 2022 5% · 2024 3% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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 5 funders, grant income rose $39k → $64k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 Olympia 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
Olympia Symphony Orchestra leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 Olympia Symphony Orchestra.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 73% · 2019 79% · 2020 42% · 2021 65% · 2022 53% · 2023 58% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of Olympia 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
69% of Olympia 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 $130k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $289k 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.
Organizations like Olympia 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 Olympia 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 Olympia Symphony Orchestra?
- Olympia Symphony Orchestra (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $418,953 to it, the largest being The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound ($274,628). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Olympia Symphony Orchestra have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $418,953 in grants to Olympia Symphony Orchestra, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Olympia Symphony Orchestra?
- The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound is the largest funder on record, with $274,628 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Olympia Symphony Orchestra find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 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