California · Nonprofit
SAN LUIS OBISPO WIND ORCHESTRA INC
SAN LUIS OBISPO WIND ORCHESTRA INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,553 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO ($63,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $73k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $99k
What San Luis Obispo Wind Orchestra Inc does
Mission
The mission of the San Luis Obispo Wind Orchestra is to perform symphonic wind band music in a variety of styles at a professional level. We seek to captivate our audience while providing an opportunity for volunteer musicians to improve, grow and play for the joy of it. We hope to enhance the cultural landscape of our community through our concerts, education and outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The San Luis Obispo Wind Orchestra (also know as SLO Winds) captivated audiences by performing a variety of styles at a professional level, while simultaneously providing an opportunity for volunteer musicians to improve, grow and play.
$53,032 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $53,032.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $36k to $73k (+105%).
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.
72% of SAN LUIS OBISPO WIND ORCHESTRA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jen Bittick
Executive Director
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 $3k → $10k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 LUIS OBISPO WIND 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
SAN LUIS OBISPO WIND ORCHESTRA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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
70% 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 SAN LUIS OBISPO WIND ORCHESTRA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 60% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
70% of SAN LUIS OBISPO WIND ORCHESTRA INC'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 $28k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SAN LUIS OBISPO WIND ORCHESTRA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SAN LUIS OBISPO WIND 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 California
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAN LUIS OBISPO WIND ORCHESTRA INC: 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 SAN LUIS OBISPO WIND ORCHESTRA INC?
- SAN LUIS OBISPO WIND ORCHESTRA INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,553 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO ($63,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAN LUIS OBISPO WIND ORCHESTRA INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $90,553 in grants to SAN LUIS OBISPO WIND ORCHESTRA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN LUIS OBISPO WIND ORCHESTRA INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO is the largest funder on record, with $63,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN LUIS OBISPO WIND ORCHESTRA INC 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 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