Texas · Nonprofit
SYMPHONY OF THE HILLS ASSOCIATION
SYMPHONY OF THE HILLS ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,149 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ($79,160). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $344k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $164k
- Net assets
- $475k
What Symphony of the Hills Association does
Mission
The symphony of the hills brings superb classical orchestral music to audiences in the hill country of texas. Partnered with schreiner university in kerrville, texas, the orchestra comprises skilled and professional musicians from the hill country and surrounding areas, including faculty and advanced music students from the university. The Symphony of the Hills Association is a non-profit texas corporation with a two-fold mission: bringing superb classical music to audiences in the hill country of texas and developing the musical appreciation and skill of young musicians throughout the area. It is the conviction of the officers and directors of the association, and of the conductor and musicians of the orchestra, that the orchestra performs a valuable service through providing fine music to area residents, thus enhancing the quality of life to all who embrace classical symphonic music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The symphony is a 75-member regional orchestra which performs concerts in the cailloux theater for the performing arts in downtown kerrville. The symphony performs four classical concerts, typically in the months of october, december, february and april and a pops concert in january. In addition, it performs two children's concerts in october, drawing on the content of that month's evening concert. Over the years, the repertoire has included symphonies, tone poems, overtures and concertos from the musical canon of the western world. Pieces with choral content are also common, employing a grand chorus. The pops concert characteristically presents music from broadway and film and the realm of popular classics, sometimes in tandem with singers or small pop ensembles. The annual children's concerts bring over 1600 elementary students from the region for a morning and afternoon concert. The youths are prepared for better appreciation by individuals from the symphony who visit their schools to perform and explain as well as through a curriculum developed specifically for these concerts.
$317,271 spent$131,378 earned by the program100% of program spendingWe strongly believe that there is a need to introduce young people to the grandeur of traditional classical music and to encourage their own inclinations to create music. For that reason, over the past 12 years we have been performing two children's concerts each season for all 3rd and 4th grade students in the kerrville area, for a total of more than 1600 students annually. The objective of this program is to familiarize elementary school students with traditional classical music and the principal musical instruments of a symphony orchestra. The program provides for several weeks of in-school presentations and texas essential knowledge and skills (teks) compliant lesson plans for the teachers at each of 12 schools designed to prepare the students for their attendance at one of the two children's concerts. In the classroom, the children are introduced to the principal symphonic musical instruments and to the music they can produce. The children's outreach touches nearly 2000 elementary school students in the kerrville area who otherwise would never have an opportunity to experience classical orchestral music. The enthusiastic response we have received from students and teachers…
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $317,271.
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 2024 to 2025, from $433k to $636k (+47%).
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.
60% of SYMPHONY OF THE HILLS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $35k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 SYMPHONY OF THE HILLS 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
SYMPHONY OF THE HILLS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 SYMPHONY OF THE HILLS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 100% · 2022 35% · 2023 49% — 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.
Where its funders are
52% of SYMPHONY OF THE HILLS ASSOCIATION'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 $79k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SYMPHONY OF THE HILLS ASSOCIATION receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $164k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SYMPHONY OF THE HILLS ASSOCIATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SYMPHONY OF THE HILLS ASSOCIATION?
- SYMPHONY OF THE HILLS ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,149 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ($79,160). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SYMPHONY OF THE HILLS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $164,149 in grants to SYMPHONY OF THE HILLS ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SYMPHONY OF THE HILLS ASSOCIATION?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC is the largest funder on record, with $79,160 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SYMPHONY OF THE HILLS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 7 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