California · Nonprofit
ORCHESTRA SANTA MONICA ASSOCIATION
ORCHESTRA SANTA MONICA ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,204 to it, the largest being BETH & KEN KARMIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $447k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $251k
What Orchestra Santa Monica Association does
Mission
To plan, produce, and perform concerts.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
This year osm produced and performed three free orchestra concerts at the broad stage in santa monica.additionally, osm presented three outreach performances:osm gave a free concert in the santa monica main library auditorium, with osm musicians partnering with adult music students from the non-profit organization, jazz hands for autism.osm woodwind quintet performed at linwood howe elementary school (culver city).osm woodwind quintet performed john marshall elementary school (glendale).at the end of this fiscal year (june 29, 2026), osm made a professional sound recording at sony studios. The recording was of a piece the orchestra commissioned, and which received its world premiere live performance by osm in feb 2025. Post-production work is underway with distribution to take place in fall 2026.
$267,501 spent$4,703 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $267,501.
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 2025 to 2026, from $87k to $251k (+188%).
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: 2023 32% · 2024 29% · 2025 10% · 2026 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ORCHESTRA SANTA MONICA ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 10 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
Cindy Bandel
Executive director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $1k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 SANTA MONICA ASSOCIATION’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 SANTA MONICA ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 93% · 2019 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 61% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ORCHESTRA SANTA MONICA ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $449 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 SANTA MONICA ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 630 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 630 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like ORCHESTRA SANTA MONICA ASSOCIATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ORCHESTRA SANTA MONICA ASSOCIATION?
- ORCHESTRA SANTA MONICA ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,204 to it, the largest being BETH & KEN KARMIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORCHESTRA SANTA MONICA ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $10,204 in grants to ORCHESTRA SANTA MONICA ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORCHESTRA SANTA MONICA ASSOCIATION?
- BETH & KEN KARMIN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORCHESTRA SANTA MONICA ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing