Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc
Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,338,591 to it, the largest being BRILLEMBOURG OCHOA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,487,035). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $771k
What Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc does
Mission
For more than two decades, The Orchestra of the Americas Group has supported thousands of musicians and arts leaders as artists, innovators, and institutional builders. Through its flagship initiatives, OAcademy and The Global Leaders Institute for Arts Innovation, the organization equips creatives with the artistic mastery, strategic insight, and global networks required to lead meaningful transformation across the cultural sector.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
OAcademy is a globally accessible conservatory designed for today's music profession. Combining online instruction with in-person residencies, it brings together 80 selected musicians from around the world for a six-month experience focused on artistic excellence, adaptability, and career sustainability. In collaboration with partners including The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Canada's National Arts Centre, and Bard College Conservatory, OAcademy expands access to elite mentorship while reducing geographic and economic barriers to entry. OAcademy's advanced tracks include the Carlos Miguel Prieto Conducting Fellowship, the Gabriela Ortiz Composing Studio, and the Gabriela Montero Piano Lab. These provide specialized, career-defining development for conductors, composers, and pianists preparing for international leadership.
$862,997 spent$217,866 earned by the program43% of program spendingThe Global Leaders Institute for Arts Innovation delivers The Global Arts MBA, an innovation-focused graduate degree for artists and cultural entrepreneurs building scalable, market-responsive enterprises. Co-curated with leading universities and think tanks including Harvard, Georgetown, Stanford, Duke, and the University of Oxford, the MBA connects fellows to a global faculty of distinguished practitioners and field partners across more than 40 nations. The Global Leaders Institute also offers Lideres, a Spanish-language executive fellowship for arts leaders from the Ibero Americas, providing strategic, cross-disciplinary training tailored to cultural innovators operating in Spanish-speaking contexts.
$885,273 spent$680,815 earned by the program44% of program spendingThe Montero at Prager concert series brings world-class musicians, mentorship, and community engagement to Maryland's Eastern Shore through performances at the Prager Family Center for the Arts on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
$198,424 spent10% of program spendingThe OA Group additionally oversees Sinfonica Azteca, a collaborative project with Fundacion Azteca in Mexico that connects music education with international performance pathways.
$71,601 spent$67,320 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,018,295.
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 2022 to 2023, from $711k to $1.1M (+61%).
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 5% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Mark Gillespie
CEO
Board chair
Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $521k → $137k.
10 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 Orchestra of the Americas Group 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
Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% 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 Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 88% · 2019 73% · 2020 37% · 2021 40% · 2022 37% · 2023 36% — 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
28% of Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $512k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $32k on record.
- Department of State$32k
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 Orchestra of the Americas Group 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc?
- Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,338,591 to it, the largest being BRILLEMBOURG OCHOA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,487,035). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,338,591 in grants to Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc?
- BRILLEMBOURG OCHOA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,487,035 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 29 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