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SAN BERNARDINO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION

SAN BERNARDINO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,503 to it, the largest being BLUEBIRD LEGACY INC ($220,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$610k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$428k
Net assets
$1.4M
9/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What San Bernardino Symphony Association does

Mission

The mission of the san bernardino symphony orchestra is to foster a love of music, excite the spirit, and enrich our diverse community and region through live orchestral performances and music education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. In line with the symphonys mission, a full concert series featuring a variety of artists is produced each year. The symphony also offers a number of music education programs, provides tickets to school groups, and operates a youth symphony orchestra dedicated to the performance of works by underrepresented composers. The symphony also offers a certificated teen program to support college and career readiness, and runs the james k guthrie music rental library, which offers economically priced music rentals for orchestras and schools nationwide.

    $718,007 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $718,007.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($515k) Expenses 100 ($575k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 81 ($415k) Expenses 124 ($712k) Net assets 84 ($864k)2019 Revenue 96 ($494k) Expenses 144 ($827k) Net assets 52 ($537k)2020 Revenue 396 ($2.0M) Expenses 121 ($698k) Net assets 180 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 247 ($1.3M) Expenses 80 ($460k) Net assets 271 ($2.8M)2022 Revenue 156 ($805k) Expenses 121 ($697k) Net assets 246 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 69 ($354k) Expenses 147 ($847k) Net assets 197 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 84 ($432k) Expenses 138 ($792k) Net assets 161 ($1.7M)2025 Revenue 119 ($610k) Expenses 154 ($887k) Net assets 137 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (154)Net assets (137)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $737k to $2.0M (+176%).

$1.2M
$1.1M
$737k
$2.0M
$2.9M
$2.6M
$2.1M
$1.7M
$1.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 9% · 2018 10% · 2019 0% · 2020 4% · 2021 13% · 2022 37% · 2023 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$60k
’17
−$296k
’18
−$333k
’19
$1.3M
’20
$809k
’21
$107k
’22
−$493k
’23
−$360k
’24
−$277k
’25
0.3
months of
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

Dr Anne Viricel

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed272730373537202122
Joined·+0+13+15+7+7+5+5+3
No longer listed·0108952242
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $43k → $75k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 SAN BERNARDINO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION’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

SAN BERNARDINO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

51%
largest funder
80%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 48% · 2021 62% · 2022 61% · 2023 53% — 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.

How long its funders stay

67% of SAN BERNARDINO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

95% of SAN BERNARDINO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
NE
LA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding SAN BERNARDINO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.

Federal$45k
grants $45kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$45k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 14%Fundraising 5%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

75%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SAN BERNARDINO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION?
SAN BERNARDINO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $427,503 to it, the largest being BLUEBIRD LEGACY INC ($220,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SAN BERNARDINO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $427,503 in grants to SAN BERNARDINO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAN BERNARDINO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION?
BLUEBIRD LEGACY INC is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAN BERNARDINO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 12 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