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OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM

OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $250,075 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($135,436). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$416k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$250k
Net assets
$358k
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Oregon Symphony Association in Salem does

Mission

The Oregon Symphony Association in Salem exists to enrich the cultural life of the mid-willamette valley by providing the world class music of the oregon symphony and by enhancing music appreciation and learning through youth programs and community engagement.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Since 1955, the Oregon Symphony Association in Salem has "existed to enrich the cultural life of the mid-willamette valley by providing the world class music of the oregon symphony and by enhancing music appreciation and learning through youth programs and community engagement.

    $290,762 spent$190,250 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $290,762.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($353k) Expenses 100 ($387k) Net assets 100 ($189k)2018 Revenue 129 ($454k) Expenses 119 ($460k) Net assets 104 ($196k)2019 Revenue 125 ($441k) Expenses 115 ($445k) Net assets 105 ($199k)2020 Revenue 96 ($340k) Expenses 101 ($390k) Net assets 78 ($148k)2021 Revenue 61 ($217k) Expenses 34 ($131k) Net assets 145 ($274k)2022 Revenue 174 ($616k) Expenses 125 ($482k) Net assets 209 ($395k)2023 Revenue 120 ($424k) Expenses 110 ($426k) Net assets 214 ($404k)2024 Revenue 111 ($392k) Expenses 129 ($501k) Net assets 164 ($309k)2025 Revenue 118 ($416k) Expenses 99 ($383k) Net assets 190 ($358k)
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Revenue (118)Expenses (99)Net assets (190)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $401k to $583k (+45%).

$296k
$296k
$311k
$255k
$385k
$489k
$497k
$401k
$583k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 12% · 2021 45% · 2022 37% · 2023 1% · 2024 5% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

44% of OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$34k
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−$6k
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−$4k
’19
−$50k
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$86k
’21
$134k
’22
−$1k
’23
−$109k
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$33k
’25
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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

Isaac Thompson

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed121418345355
Joined·+5+9+0+1+1+0+2+2
No longer listed·351500202
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $21k → $15k.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $21k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Oregon Symphony Association). These are real filings, and they are not money OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM raised.

From the IRS filings of OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM’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

OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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 OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM.

54%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 61% · 2019 74% · 2020 43% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 52% — 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

29% of OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

75% of OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM'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 $61k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Oregon funders.

OR

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $189k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve12.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $287k on record — $80k federal, $207k state.

Federal$80k
grants $80kcontracts $0
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  • National Endowment for the Arts$80k
State$207k
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Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$207k

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 OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 10%Fundraising 14%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

86%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OR

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Oregon Symphony Association · exempt
  • Oregon Symphony Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM?
OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $250,075 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($135,436). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $250,075 in grants to OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM?
THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $135,436 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION IN SALEM 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.

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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 8 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