California · Nonprofit
STOCKTON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC
STOCKTON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,556 to it, the largest being Capecchio Foundation ($129,205). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $381k
- Net assets
- $605k
What Stockton Symphony Association Inc does
Mission
The mission of the stockon symphony is to inspire joy and to build community through the magic of music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since 1926, the stockton symphony has inspired joy and built community through the magic of music. In 2024-25, the symphony continued that legacy with a season focused on artistic excellence, audience development, education, and preparation for its 2026-27 centennial. Targeted marketing and patron engagement increased subscription sales by 230 tickets, reflecting stronger audience loyalty, while program service revenue remained stable at $296,808 compared with $296,244 in the prior year. Most importantly, community support grew substantially, with contributions and grants increasing from $570,955 to $983,385. While the prior year benefited from significant investment-related revenue from the symphony's stock portfolio, the current year demonstrated meaningful strengthening in core operations through increased philanthropy, steady earned revenue, and careful expense management. This progress reflects growing community confidence in the symphony's mission, stewardship, and long-term future.on stage, main-series concerts at atherton auditorium featured celebrated guest artists and the artistry of our professional union orchestra of more than seventy musicians. Beloved masterworks…
$1,067,152 spent$296,808 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,067,152.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.4M to $1.7M (−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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 16% · 2022 27% · 2023 18% · 2024 9% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of STOCKTON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC’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
Arthur Scott Watkins
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $7k → $36k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 STOCKTON SYMPHONY 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
STOCKTON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 61% · 2019 56% · 2020 54% · 2021 82% · 2022 43% · 2023 83% — 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
50% of STOCKTON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
97% of STOCKTON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
STOCKTON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding STOCKTON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $105k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$105k
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 STOCKTON SYMPHONY 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 STOCKTON SYMPHONY 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 STOCKTON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC?
- STOCKTON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,556 to it, the largest being Capecchio Foundation ($129,205). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STOCKTON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $380,556 in grants to STOCKTON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STOCKTON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC?
- Capecchio Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $129,205 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STOCKTON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 15 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