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THE HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC

THE HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $515,135 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC ($358,171). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$515k
Net assets
$1.7M
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What The Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra Inc does

Mission

To enrich the community with live symphonic performances and instrumental music education for youths and adults.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. In addition to providing live symphonic perfromances, the symphony makes significant contributions to the community by creating jobs, earning income through ticket sales and fundraising events, and stimulating the local economy through tourism and local consumption. The hendersonville symphony orchestra contributes to the region's culture, children, economy and community vitality. Annually over 10,000 participate in symphony concerts and youth education programming.

    $347,820 spentof which $2,500 as grants$101,240 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. In addition to providing live symphonic perfromances, the symphony makes significant contributions to the community by creating jobs, earning income through ticket sales and fundraising events, and stimulating the local economy through tourism and local consumption. The hendersonville symphony orchestra contributes to the region's culture, children, economy and community vitality. Annually over 10,000 participate in symphony concerts and youth education programming.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $347,820.

02The 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 ($403k) Expenses 100 ($429k) Net assets 100 ($673k)2018 Revenue 88 ($355k) Expenses 95 ($408k) Net assets 93 ($629k)2019 Revenue 91 ($365k) Expenses 97 ($414k) Net assets 85 ($571k)2020 Revenue 89 ($358k) Expenses 78 ($334k) Net assets 81 ($546k)2021 Revenue 41 ($164k) Expenses 17 ($75k) Net assets 100 ($673k)2022 Revenue 72 ($288k) Expenses 75 ($320k) Net assets 84 ($565k)2023 Revenue 68 ($272k) Expenses 86 ($367k) Net assets 72 ($485k)2024 Revenue 121 ($487k) Expenses 85 ($365k) Net assets 92 ($623k)2025 Revenue 337 ($1.4M) Expenses 82 ($352k) Net assets 246 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (337)Expenses (82)Net assets (246)Peer revenue range

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 $655k to $1.7M (+158%).

$746k
$699k
$644k
$546k
$675k
$568k
$530k
$655k
$1.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

88% of THE HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$26k
’17
−$54k
’18
−$49k
’19
$25k
’20
$90k
’21
−$32k
’22
−$94k
’23
$122k
’24
$1.0M
’25
0.5
months of
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.

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Listed221717192117191617
Joined·+2+5+3+4+5+4+8+2
No longer listed·751292111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $32k → $86k.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 THE HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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

THE HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC.

70%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 75% · 2019 96% · 2020 45% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 74% — 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

98% of THE HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC'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 $9k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

MI
CT
DE
NC

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $506k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin74% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like THE HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

38%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
THE HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $515,135 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC ($358,171). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $515,135 in grants to THE HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $358,171 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 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