Iowa · Nonprofit
QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,567,319 to it, the largest being QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,432,400). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Quad City Symphony Orchestra Association does
Mission
To inspire, entertain, and engage the quad city community through superb symphonic music, music education, and cultural leadership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The association reaches over 400,000 area residents with the highest quality of symphonic music and music education available.
$2,230,526 spentof which $20,998 as grants$1,531,972 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,230,526.
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 $1.5M to $2.1M (+40%).
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 11% · 2022 25% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION’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. 3 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
Brian Baxter
Executive director-ex offi
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $375k → $602k.
8 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $4.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Quad City Symphony Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 38% · 2019 40% · 2020 34% · 2021 32% · 2022 40% · 2023 46% — 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
67% of QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% 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
QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION is better cushioned 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 QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $65k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$65k
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 QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Qc Symphony Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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 QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION?
- QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,567,319 to it, the largest being QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,432,400). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $7,567,319 in grants to QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION?
- QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,432,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 36 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