Florida · Nonprofit
THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA
THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA (Florida) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,087,440 to it, the largest being HOUGH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($2,150,000). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 94
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $12M
What The Florida Orchestra does
Mission
To enrich the life of the tampa bay area as it inspires, entertains and educates a wide and diverse audience with the unique experience of live symphonic music, ensuring that future generations will continue to enjoy this legacy that celebrates the human spirit.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Concert performances:for more than 57 years, The Florida Orchestra (tfo) has served the tampa bay area and beyond. Tfo is recognized as tampa bay's leading performing arts institution, the largest professional symphony orchestra in florida, and one of the most vibrant and innovative orchestras in america. Through extraordinary musical performances, the orchestra inspires the people of tampa bay and serves as a leader and beacon for the musical arts throughout the state. Regardless of where performances occur, The Florida Orchestra is committed to serving the entire tampa bay area.continued on schedule o.
$10,037,222 spent$3,700,071 earned by the program85% of program spendingEducation and community:tfo's extensive education and community engagement activities make it possible for a large portion of its annual total audience to participate in its services free of charge or for low cost. These activities follow tfo's commitment to educate and impact a wide range of community members of all ages, backgrounds, and socioeconomic means. Continued on schedule o.
$1,771,274 spent$504,555 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,808,496.
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 $14M to $18M (+29%).
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: 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Ignacio Barron Viela
President & CEO
Board chair
Linda Cassaly
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
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 94 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 4 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 94 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 16% 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
51% 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.
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; 70% 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
67% of THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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.
- 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
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA?
- THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA (Florida) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,087,440 to it, the largest being HOUGH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($2,150,000). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 94 organizations giving $13,087,440 in grants to THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA?
- 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.
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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 94 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