South Carolina · Nonprofit
Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra
Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $248,016 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($187,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $310k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $248k
- Net assets
- $324k
What Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra does
Mission
To inspire, engage, and enrich the lives of community members with the transformative power of symphonic music through excellence in live performance, educational programs, and community activities.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Performing professional symphony orchestra concerts for the general public. RHSO completed its second season in June of 2020. Each season RHSO provides Rock Hill and the surrounding communities with cultural enrichment by providing three Masterworks concerts. These concerts showcase worldrenowned soloists and many other talented musicians both locally and nationally. RHSO put on its first Holiday Concert in 2019 featuring a collaboration with the Rock Hill Ecumenical Choir and the York County Choral Society
$274,595 spent$49,755 earned by the program91% of program spendingOffering outreach concerts and programs at area elementary schools. In addition to live concerts, RHSO has a Symphony in Schools program servicing K-12. The program is curriculum-based education concerts that serve to introduce K-5 students in 20 schools to the various string instruments and how they are played, along with historical background on the music and composers, and extended curriculum connections. RHSO Musicians and local middle school orchestra teachers collaborate on ways to assist 6th grade beginning string students to achieve success in their initial year of learning to play their instrument. Workshops, sectional rehearsals and master classesat the local high schools can address such needs as experience in creative improvisation (a curriculum standard that is often neglected), advanced bowing and fingering techniques on all instruments, fine points of good ensemble playing, intonation and blend, as well as rhythmic accuracy within the ensemble. Additionally, individual attention and mentoring can be provided for those students who need it by having a team of RHSO musicians and orchestra teachers working together.
$28,260 spent9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $302,855.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $99k to $231k (+134%).
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.
84% of Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $35k → $51k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra’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
Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 84% · 2022 70% · 2023 59% — 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
83% of Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra'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 $41k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $207k 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.
Against its field
Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra has grown faster than three-quarters of the 630 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 630 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra: 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 Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra?
- Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $248,016 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($187,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $248,016 in grants to Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $187,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2021–2026), and the filings of 5 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing