South Dakota · Nonprofit
SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (South Dakota) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,316,415 to it, the largest being SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($2,287,858). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What South Dakota Symphony Orchestra does
Mission
To inspire the best in all of us through music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra fulfilled its mission of enriching lives through live music performance with 11 orchestra concerts, 3 young people's concerts, 5 youth orchestra concerts, and education and engagement programs throughout the community and the state. A digital music library makes the music accessible to as many people as possible.
$2,420,947 spent$642,423 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,420,947.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.8M to $5.4M (+43%).
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 1% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 3% · 2021 30% · 2022 27% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Jennifer Teisinger
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $292k → $700k.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $688k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Avera Health). These are real filings, and they are not money SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA raised.
From the IRS filings of SOUTH DAKOTA 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
SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 68% · 2019 47% · 2020 60% · 2021 64% · 2022 64% · 2023 50% — 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
57% of SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
61% of SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.7M that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside South Dakota, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M 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
SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's revenue grew 20% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $145k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$128k
- Smithsonian Institution$17k
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 SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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 South Dakota
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
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTH DAKOTA 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 SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (South Dakota) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,316,415 to it, the largest being SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($2,287,858). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $4,316,415 in grants to SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,287,858 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 25 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