Iowa · Nonprofit
QUAD CITY SYMPHONY TRUST
QUAD CITY SYMPHONY TRUST (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,440 to it, the largest being SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AUTHORITY ($20,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $17M
What Quad City Symphony Trust does
Mission
To further the tax exempt charitable works of the quad city symphony orchestra association.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Quad City Symphony Trust is in existence to support the needs of the quad city symphony orchestra. It helps the orchestra reach over 400,000 area residents, both adults and children, with the highest quality symphonic music and music education available. The Quad City Symphony Trust allocates 5% of its value as support to the association as income on an annual basis.
$683,758 spentof which $683,758 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $683,758.
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 2020 to 2021, from $12M to $15M (+29%).
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.
82% of QUAD CITY SYMPHONY TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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.
Board chair
Tom Spitzfaden
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income held at $5k.
From the IRS filings of QUAD CITY SYMPHONY TRUST’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
QUAD CITY SYMPHONY TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 74% · 2022 51% · 2023 50% — 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
56% of QUAD CITY SYMPHONY TRUST's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Organizations like QUAD CITY SYMPHONY TRUST
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Quad City Symphony Orchestra · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for QUAD CITY SYMPHONY TRUST: 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 TRUST?
- QUAD CITY SYMPHONY TRUST (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,440 to it, the largest being SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AUTHORITY ($20,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does QUAD CITY SYMPHONY TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $53,440 in grants to QUAD CITY SYMPHONY TRUST, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of QUAD CITY SYMPHONY TRUST?
- SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AUTHORITY is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like QUAD CITY SYMPHONY TRUST 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.
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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing