Texas · Nonprofit
Richardson Area Orchestra Club
Richardson Area Orchestra Club (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $536 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($536). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $536
- Net assets
- $57k
What Richardson Area Orchestra Club does
Mission
The Richardson Area Orchestra Club (Club) is a parent led organization whosegoal is to cultivate growth of participating students in their appreciation for and performance of orchestral music, as individuals and with a group, before a variety of audiences. The Club has approximately 450 students in the program ranging from grades 6 through 12. These students attend the following public schools, all of which are part of the Richardson, Texas Independent School District: Richardson High School, Westwood Junior High School, Richardson West Junior High School and associated Elementary schools. While the Club serves the orchestra students of the public school district, it is independent of the school district and receives no public funding. It operates as a booster club in compliance with guidelines issued by the University Interscholastic League and Richardson Independent School District (RISD).
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Club pursues student musical development in several ways. The Club offersmusic tutors to students at set by RISD, and hires hiring music professionals to provide group clinics to all students several times each year. The Club offers financial aid to students who are unable to afford private lessons. The Club offers large orchestral instruments (i.e., cello and bass)for student use, because the purchase of such instruments by families is expensive in comparison to the smaller instruments. The Club maintains a uniform closet used to fit students for concerts, facilitates an annual field trip to visit the music school of a state university, supports the spring and fall orchestra concerts at each participating school, supports the students participation in an annual district-wide music festival and assists the students in preparing for University Interscholastic League competitions. The Club also supports the district wide string fling in which all 450 orchestra students play simultaneously for the community at large.
$60,986 spent70% of program spendingEach year the Club provides multiple opportunities for Junior and Senior High School students to perform in the local community. Several nearby Senior Living Communities, a local Mall, and a preschool have all enjoyed our having students play for them in recent years. Finally, the Club facilitate several team development and social bonding events during the school year, including outings like a trip to the symphony and ice skating and hosts an end of year awards banquet for our high school students.
$25,842 spent30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $86,828.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $66k to $51k (−23%).
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.
2% of Richardson Area Orchestra Club’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $18 → $123.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Richardson Area Orchestra Club’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Richardson Area Orchestra Club'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $536 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
Richardson Area Orchestra Club has grown faster than half of the 1,015 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,015 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
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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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Richardson Area Orchestra Club?
- Richardson Area Orchestra Club (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $536 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($536). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Richardson Area Orchestra Club have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $536 in grants to Richardson Area Orchestra Club, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Richardson Area Orchestra Club?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $536 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Richardson Area Orchestra Club find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2020–2026), and the filings of 1 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