Florida · Nonprofit
SINFONIA GULF COAST INC
SINFONIA GULF COAST INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,526,493 to it, the largest being THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION ($520,184). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $-265193
What Sinfonia Gulf Coast Inc does
Mission
Sinfonia gulf coast's primary purpose is to entertain, educate and inspire the community through imaginative and innovative musical performing. Our goal is to enrich and expand the traditional orchestral experience through unique artistic desciplines and collaborations, enhancing our region's vitality.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
All musical programs are designed to entertain, educate and enhance our region's cultural vitality. The sinfonia dedicated education fund was created to maintain funds for the organization's educational initiatives, which include, but are not limited to musicians in the classroom, musicians provided outside of the classroom environment, musicians used in conjunction with the arts in medicine program with a local hospital, and costs associated with providing live symphonic music to the students of the region that sinfonia serves.
$1,093,487 spent$262,049 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,093,487.
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.
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 $432k to $213k (−51%).
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: 2017 7% · 2018 0% · 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 4% · 2022 6% · 2023 16% · 2024 7% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of SINFONIA GULF COAST INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Demetrius Fuller
Exec dir/conductor
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $94k → $333k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 SINFONIA GULF COAST 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
SINFONIA GULF COAST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 SINFONIA GULF COAST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 59% · 2019 50% · 2020 56% · 2021 54% · 2022 43% · 2023 35% — 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
50% of SINFONIA GULF COAST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
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
SINFONIA GULF COAST INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $441k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SINFONIA GULF COAST INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SINFONIA GULF COAST 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SINFONIA GULF COAST 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 SINFONIA GULF COAST INC?
- SINFONIA GULF COAST INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,526,493 to it, the largest being THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION ($520,184). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SINFONIA GULF COAST INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,526,493 in grants to SINFONIA GULF COAST INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SINFONIA GULF COAST INC?
- THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $520,184 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SINFONIA GULF COAST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 14 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