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SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC

SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,103 to it, the largest being FRANK G & FRIEDA K BROTZ FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($317,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$327k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$685k
Net assets
$456k
17/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra Inc does

Mission

To engage our community through extraordinary musical experiences.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The orchestra performed seven concerts, including two education concerts.

    $271,761 spent$76,359 earned by the program
    90% of program spending
  2. The sheboygan symphony youth orchestra is an education-focused program of the sheboygan symphony orchestra, providing instrumental music training and performance opportunities for over 40 elementary, middle-, and high-school students. This includes rehearsals in support of three public concerts, plus a spring tour to regional schools.

    $21,634 spentof which $1,500 as grants$10,782 earned by the program
    7% of program spending
  3. The sheboygan symphony chorus is a performance-focused extension of the sheboygan symphony orchestra that provides a chorus of over 60 adults to perform symphonic works that include the use of chorus such as handel's messiah or mahler's symphony no. 2: typically, two to three concerts per season.

    $8,329 spent
    3% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $301,724.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($355k) Expenses 100 ($319k) Net assets 100 ($272k)2018 Revenue 143 ($508k) Expenses 125 ($400k) Net assets 140 ($380k)2019 Revenue 142 ($504k) Expenses 128 ($409k) Net assets 175 ($474k)2020 Revenue 77 ($274k) Expenses 121 ($384k) Net assets 134 ($364k)2021 Revenue 71 ($253k) Expenses 72 ($229k) Net assets 143 ($389k)2022 Revenue 200 ($708k) Expenses 114 ($363k) Net assets 269 ($731k)2023 Revenue 92 ($328k) Expenses 130 ($415k) Net assets 237 ($644k)2024 Revenue 97 ($345k) Expenses 139 ($444k) Net assets 200 ($545k)2025 Revenue 92 ($327k) Expenses 130 ($415k) Net assets 168 ($456k)
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Revenue (92)Expenses (130)Net assets (168)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $434k to $742k (+71%).

$294k
$422k
$482k
$391k
$434k
$742k
$652k
$550k
$460k
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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: 2021 7% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

74% of SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$36k
’17
$108k
’18
$94k
’19
−$110k
’20
$25k
’21
$345k
’22
−$87k
’23
−$99k
’24
−$89k
’25
11
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.

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Listed201720171917191624
Joined·+1+8+5+3+0+13+1+16
No longer listed·458121148
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $41k → $96k.

3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 SHEBOYGAN 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

SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

46%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 47% · 2019 48% · 2020 34% · 2021 39% · 2022 70% · 2023 42% — 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

73% of SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

96% of SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

MN
WI
CO

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

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−27% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 17%Fundraising 10%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,103 to it, the largest being FRANK G & FRIEDA K BROTZ FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($317,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $685,103 in grants to SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
FRANK G & FRIEDA K BROTZ FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $317,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 19 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