Kentucky · Nonprofit
THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC
THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,496,547 to it, the largest being WILLIAM B YARMUTH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,341,789). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 501 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
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.
- James Graham Brown Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- E Nakamichi Foundationportfolio match
- The Kurt Weill Foundation for Musicportfolio match
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.
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 20% · 2022 28% · 2023 32% · 2024 3% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC’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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $520k → $2.6M.
14 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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: $17M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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 LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 39% · 2019 59% · 2020 32% · 2021 46% · 2022 21% · 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
59% of THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
61% of THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 statesis 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.
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 82 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- James Graham Brown Foundation Incshared funderslocalKY · backs 92 organizations that share your funders · funds 98 organizations near you
- E Nakamichi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kurt Weill Foundation for Musicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Opera America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lloyd E Rigler Lawrence E Deutsch Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greenacres Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Henry T and Elizabeth Segerstrom Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colburn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Firestone Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sam Swope Family Foundation Incshared funderslocalKY · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 42 organizations near you
- C E and S Foundation Incshared funderslocalKY · backs 60 organizations that share your funders · funds 72 organizations near you
- Wood & Marie Hannah Foundationshared funderslocalKY · backs 66 organizations that share your funders · funds 60 organizations near you
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 LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $205k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$205k
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 LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC
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 Kentucky
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
91%
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 2 related entities
- Mammoth Productions LLC · disregarded
- Louisville Orchestra Endowment Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA 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.
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 LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC?
- THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,496,547 to it, the largest being WILLIAM B YARMUTH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,341,789). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $14,496,547 in grants to THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC?
- WILLIAM B YARMUTH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,341,789 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 82funders 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