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Skokie Valley Orchestral Association

Skokie Valley Orchestral Association (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,000 to it, the largest being Pond House Woods Foundation ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$58k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$76k
Net assets
$125k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Skokie Valley Orchestral Association does

Mission

To provide concerts to the general public

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Re-grouping the organization

    $0 spentof which $5,000 as grants

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

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 ($77k) Expenses 100 ($82k) Net assets 100 ($47k)2018 Revenue 98 ($75k) Expenses 117 ($96k) Net assets 56 ($26k)2019 Revenue 108 ($83k) Expenses 142 ($117k) Net assets -16 ($-7527)2024 Revenue 65 ($50k) Expenses 2 ($2k) Net assets 160 ($74k)2025 Revenue 75 ($58k) Expenses 9 ($7k) Net assets 268 ($125k)
20172018201920242025
Revenue (75)Expenses (9)Net assets (268)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 2024 to 2025, from $74k to $125k (+67%).

$55k
$38k
$4k
$74k
$125k
20172018201920242025
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
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Skokie Valley Orchestral Association’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
−$20k
’18
−$34k
’19
$48k
’24
$50k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $15k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Skokie Valley Orchestral Association’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

Skokie Valley Orchestral Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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

34% 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 Skokie Valley Orchestral Association.

66%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 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

Skokie Valley Orchestral Association draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.

IL
DE
DC

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

’17
’18
’19
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Skokie Valley Orchestral Association runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin87% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like Skokie Valley Orchestral Association

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In Illinois

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05Profile & governance

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Skokie Valley Orchestral Association?
Skokie Valley Orchestral Association (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,000 to it, the largest being Pond House Woods Foundation ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Skokie Valley Orchestral Association have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $76,000 in grants to Skokie Valley Orchestral Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Skokie Valley Orchestral Association?
Pond House Woods Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Skokie Valley Orchestral Association find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 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