Texas · Nonprofit
SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC
SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,260 to it, the largest being THELMA BRAUN & BOCKLETT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $234k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $149k
What Sherman Symphony Orchestra Association Inc does
Mission
Promotionofmusicalandeducationalactivitiesprimarilythroughconcert performancesandeducation opportunities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Promotionofmusicalandeducationalactivitiesprimarilythroughconcert performancesandeducational opportunities
$211,509 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $211,509.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $216k to $155k (−29%).
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: 2023 13% · 2024 3% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $10k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION 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
SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 96% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
58% of SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $260 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.
Government funding SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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.
Organizations like SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION 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 SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC?
- SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,260 to it, the largest being THELMA BRAUN & BOCKLETT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $43,260 in grants to SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC?
- THELMA BRAUN & BOCKLETT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2022–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing