Idaho · Nonprofit
SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC
SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC (Idaho) receives grants from 141 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,825,974 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,067,686). 108 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 141
- Grants received
- $8.8M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc does
Mission
To enrich, inspire, and instill in our community a lifelong love of classical music through extraoridnary, free concerts and education programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Summer season: each summer, the organization brings musicians and guest artists to sun valley to present a series of classical music concerts. Over 100 musicians form the festival orchestra, led by music director alasdair neale. The concerts are presented at the sun valley pavilion. All concerts - except the fundraising gala - are presented free of charge to the public. Each summer, over 50,000 people attend up to 15 free concerts.
$2,608,590 spent70% of program spendingEducation: the festival's music institute runs music education programs during the school year in conjunction with local public schools and, in addition, runs two summer camps during the festival's summer season. School-year programs serve students in local public and private elementary, middle, and high schools in partnership with music teachers in these schools. The music institute offers comprehensive music education including music theory and ensemble and individual instruction. The summer programs offer music education for children in grades 2-12 in a one-week program, and for advanced students in a two-week advanced chamber program. All summer programs involve musicians from the festival orchestra, as well as guest artists.
$772,800 spent$61,765 earned by the program21% of program spendingWinter season: the music festival presents a winter concert series in february or march. Past festivals have presented three or four concerts - all free of charge- with performers including musicians from the festival orchestra as well as guest artists.
$360,163 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,741,553.
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 2020 to 2021, from $18M to $22M (+20%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 4% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY 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. 3 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
Derek Dean
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 44 funders to 80 funders, grant income rose $507k → $1.8M.
26 of 141 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 141 funders by total. 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
SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
37% 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 SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 12% · 2018 12% · 2019 17% · 2020 14% · 2021 12% · 2022 13% · 2023 14% — 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.
How long its funders stay
52% of SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Idaho, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY 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 Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC?
- SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC (Idaho) receives grants from 141 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,825,974 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,067,686). 108 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC have?
- IRS filings report 141 organizations giving $8,825,974 in grants to SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC, 108 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,067,686 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. 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 141 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing