Arizona · Nonprofit
PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION (Arizona) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,848,940 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($8,171,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $265k
What Phoenix Symphony Association does
Mission
To provide extraordinary musical experiences that inspire and advance our community, enriching the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The symphony aspires to perform live symphonic music of excellence, beauty, and vitality at a consistently high level and to address the needs of communities throughout the valley, meeting their needs through music-based programs. Concerts follow a selection of seasonal programs classics, pops, and special presentations; designed to attract a diverse audience.in addition to our mainstage concerts, the phoenix symphony learning institute operates a varied group of programs that reach over 125,000 students, adults, and families every year. Programs cover many other activities, including school-based concerts, and a professional development model to (continued on schedule o) teachers and symphony musicians in how to teach and assess stem concepts through music. Our health & wellness initiative provides live, interactive performances presented by symphony musicians in healthcare settings and homeless outreach centers.the orchestra participates in collaborative efforts with organizations such as ballet arizona, az science center, arizona theatre company, heard museum, phoenix art museum, phoenix bach choir and boys choir, and arizona state university.
$10,052,157 spent$5,097,574 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,052,157.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $9.8M (+617%).
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 3% · 2018 1% · 2019 3% · 2020 15% · 2021 33% · 2022 38% · 2023 26% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Peter Kjome
President/CEO
Board chair
Adam Goodman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 22 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $226k → $601k.
12 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $3.8M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Phoenix Symphony Support Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 funders by total. 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
PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 41% · 2019 17% · 2020 63% · 2021 36% · 2022 96% · 2023 25% — 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
33% of PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
92% of PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$55k
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 PHOENIX SYMPHONY 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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
- Phoenix Symphony Support Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: 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 PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION?
- PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION (Arizona) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,848,940 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($8,171,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $11,848,940 in grants to PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION?
- Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $8,171,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHOENIX SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 73 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