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SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Iowa) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,617 to it, the largest being MISSOURI RIVER HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT INC ($101,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.2M
Revenue FY2025
14
Funders on record
$351k
Grants received
$4.9M
Net assets
4/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

Against its field

SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve4.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($953k) Net assets 100 ($3.1M)2018 Revenue 157 ($1.6M) Expenses 125 ($1.2M) Net assets 112 ($3.5M)2019 Revenue 135 ($1.4M) Expenses 136 ($1.3M) Net assets 108 ($3.4M)2020 Revenue 118 ($1.2M) Expenses 114 ($1.1M) Net assets 107 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 127 ($1.3M) Expenses 85 ($810k) Net assets 143 ($4.5M)2022 Revenue 202 ($2.0M) Expenses 155 ($1.5M) Net assets 139 ($4.3M)2023 Revenue 149 ($1.5M) Expenses 169 ($1.6M) Net assets 143 ($4.5M)2024 Revenue 206 ($2.1M) Expenses 210 ($2.0M) Net assets 150 ($4.7M)2025 Revenue 224 ($2.2M) Expenses 217 ($2.1M) Net assets 159 ($4.9M)
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Revenue (224)Expenses (217)Net assets (159)Peer revenue range

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 5% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 24% · 2022 23% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

53% of SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
17
$380k
18
$58k
19
$93k
20
$458k
21
$544k
22
$116k
23
$56k
24
$176k
25
4.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $113k.

5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)12% 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 SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’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

SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

73% 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 SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.

29%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 37% · 2023 89%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.

How long its funders stay

17% of SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 4 states in all.

IL
SD
IA
TX

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

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Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.

Federal$60k
grants $60kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$60k

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 SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Iowa

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 17%Fundraising 3%

Governance

25
board members
96%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

89%

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 SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 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 SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Iowa) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,617 to it, the largest being MISSOURI RIVER HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT INC ($101,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $350,617 in grants to SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
MISSOURI RIVER HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $101,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing