Virginia · Nonprofit
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,332 to it, the largest being DOROTHY G & STANLEY E WORDEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $124k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $91k
What Symphony Orchestra of Northern Virginia Inc does
Mission
Share the joy of live symphonic music through immersive, story-driven performances that modernize the concert experience and welcome audiences of all ages.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided five full-length high-quality symphonic concerts by an approximately 60-piece orchestra consisting of mostly volunteer musicians to audiences averaging approximately 250 persons from the northern Virginia region.
$68,274 spentof which $14,513 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $68,274.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $47k to $91k (+93%).
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.
69% of SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Serena Sela
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $128.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA 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
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $332 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
77%
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 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA 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 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC?
- SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,332 to it, the largest being DOROTHY G & STANLEY E WORDEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,332 in grants to SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC?
- DOROTHY G & STANLEY E WORDEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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