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THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA

THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA (Florida) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,689,417 to it, the largest being THE HOUGH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($2,150,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$16M
Revenue FY2025
92
Funders on record
$13M
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
65/92 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%

Against its field

THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 501 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 501 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2018 Revenue 122 ($13M) Expenses 105 ($11M) Net assets 118 ($15M)2019 Revenue 95 ($10M) Expenses 103 ($11M) Net assets 106 ($13M)2020 Revenue 98 ($10M) Expenses 97 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2021 Revenue 78 ($8.3M) Expenses 72 ($7.8M) Net assets 128 ($16M)2022 Revenue 99 ($10M) Expenses 104 ($11M) Net assets 93 ($12M)2023 Revenue 96 ($10M) Expenses 115 ($12M) Net assets 79 ($9.9M)2024 Revenue 124 ($13M) Expenses 127 ($14M) Net assets 81 ($10M)2025 Revenue 150 ($16M) Expenses 130 ($14M) Net assets 98 ($12M)
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Revenue (150)Expenses (130)Net assets (98)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 10% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 16% · 2021 27% · 2022 16% · 2023 5% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

64% of THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 816 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$293k
17
$1.5M
18
$1.2M
19
$121k
20
$467k
21
$888k
22
$2.3M
23
$754k
24
$1.8M
25
0.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $905k → $1.7M.

16 of 92 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $3.8M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA raised.

From the IRS filings of THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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

THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

50% 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 THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA.

17%
largest funder
39%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 23% · 2019 14% · 2020 18% · 2021 20% · 2022 15% · 2023 15%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

51% of THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

64% of THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA's grant income comes from Florida funders.

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IL
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MI
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MA
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FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 92 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $568 on record.

State$568
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $568

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 THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Florida

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 13%Fundraising 3%

Governance

33
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Florida Orchestra North Suncoast Associates · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA?
THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA (Florida) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,689,417 to it, the largest being THE HOUGH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($2,150,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA have?
IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $12,689,417 in grants to THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA?
THE HOUGH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 92funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing