California · Nonprofit
STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC
STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,842,046 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($575,493). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $503k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $370k
What Street Symphony Project Inc does
Mission
Music is a catalyst for human connection. Street symphony engages communities directly affected by homelessness and incarceration in los angeles county through performances, workshops, and teaching artistry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Workshops (3 annually) midnight strings & women's voices women's voices are 8 to 12-week songwriting workshops at downtown women's center with a committed group of dwc residents, staff, and ss teaching artists and musicians. During the residency, ss teaching artists lead participants in lyric and melody writing to create an original song written by the residents of dwc. Additionally, participants discuss what inspires them and curate a concert of music based on themes of their choice. After six weeks of songwriting workshops and two weeks of combined rehearsals, an all-female musical ensemble from street symphony presents a cumulative concert, focusing on music by women composers. The performance will be capped by the songwriters at dwc performing their original song. Midnight strings is an 8 to 12-week guitar and songwriting workshop at the midnight mission. There are spring and fall workshops. The teaching artists work with community members from the 12-step program (homeless, incarcerated, and addiction recovery programs) to learn the basics of guitar, songwriting, and performance. Throughout the weeks, individuals begin to share their stories, feelings, and experiences…
$110,209 spent27% of program spendingMonthly programs (music for the soul & music with a mission) these monthly programs are in partnership with downtown women's center and the midnight mission. Every 4th thursday and friday we have recurring monthly programs to create engagement, build relationships, and offer unique opportunities to provide a platform for the community members to be heard, share stories, and reflect with musicians and ss staff.
$105,672 spent26% of program spendingSince 2015, street symphony has partnered with the midnight mission (tmm) and dozens of skid row service providers to host its annual "messiah project," a celebration of the resilience and stories of the skid row community. In skid row, music and art is not an entertainment commodity, but a vital lifeline to community, recovery, and humanity. The messiah project presents excerpts of handel's beloved messiah while also featuring stories, music, and performances from members of the skid row community. Community members often serve as soloists, choristers, and participants alongside street symphony's roster of professional, world-class artists. Performed at the midnight mission, the project also features a series of 12-15 free workshop events for the skid row community and the creation of several hundred hygiene kits and amenity bags for the skid row community, as well as thousands of free meals served to the unhoused community of los angeles.
$87,761 spent22% of program spendingOther programs
$104,439 spent26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $408,081.
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 $218k to $561k (+157%).
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: 2018 21% · 2019 10% · 2020 38% · 2021 55% · 2022 50% · 2023 26% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Catherine B Vivo
CEO
Board chair
Faith Raiguel
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $58k → $261k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT 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
STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
46% 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 STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 41% · 2019 28% · 2020 37% · 2021 39% · 2022 30% · 2023 39% — 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
33% of STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT 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
65% of STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT 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. $746k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $185k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$185k
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 STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT 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
75% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC?
- STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,842,046 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($575,493). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,842,046 in grants to STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $575,493 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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