Utah · Nonprofit
SALT LAKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
SALT LAKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,425 to it, the largest being GEORGE S AND DOLORES DORE ECCLES FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $125k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $208k
What Salt Lake Symphony Orchestra Inc does
Mission
The salt lake symphony is a non-profit organization dedicated to performing quality classical music concerts for the wasatch front community. The symphony performs around 15 concerts per year. The approximately seventy-five hard-working musicians of the sls volunteer roughly 10,000 hours annually to accomplish this goal. Althought the members of the salt lake symphony come from all walks of life and frequently work full-time in other professions, they hold one thing in common: they play for the love and passion of music. Their dedication as volunteers sets them apart and creates a unique bond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In fy23 the salt lake symphony staged five regular-season concerts (which includes a family concert) and a christmas concert. We also provided services for the university of utah opera program's annual staging of "amahl and the night visitors and a christmas carol the university of utah piano department's summerarts piano concerto competition winners; and the days of 47 pops concerts.
$107,785 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $107,785.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $179k to $208k (+16%).
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: 2019 19% · 2022 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Board chair
Richard Fox
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $10k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 SALT LAKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC’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
SALT LAKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 SALT LAKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SALT LAKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $425 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.
Organizations like SALT LAKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SALT LAKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
- SALT LAKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,425 to it, the largest being GEORGE S AND DOLORES DORE ECCLES FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SALT LAKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $20,425 in grants to SALT LAKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SALT LAKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
- GEORGE S AND DOLORES DORE ECCLES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SALT LAKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 4 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