Missouri · Nonprofit
THE MISSOURI SYMPHONY
THE MISSOURI SYMPHONY (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,159 to it, the largest being PAUL D HIGDAY MOZART MUSIC TRUST ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $527k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $194k
- Net assets
- $344k
What The Missouri Symphony does
Mission
The missouri symohony enriches the columbia missouri community through music education, professional performances and diverse experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Music education - comprised of youth band and youth orchestra groups. Provided orchestral and instrumental training to students with weekly rehearsals under a director and coaches and performed fall, and spring public concerts, in addition to numerous free concerts at various public and private venues. Also provided master classes for orchestral groups with professional guest musicians and other student enrichment opportunities.
$123,831 spent55% of program spendingMusic productions - produced ticketed concerts in the hot summer nights music festival with The Missouri Symphony orchestra and guest musicians to large attendances. Provided complimentary tickets for these events to numerous not-for-profit organizations. Produced community concerts in public and private venues and family concerts, which served numerous patrons at no charge. Produced a holiday concert in december with mulitple performances and high attendance of patrons.
$90,750 spent40% of program spendingMissouri symphony league sponsors events that provide the community with exciting, unique opportunities to have fun while raising funds for the music and musicians. The league provides scholarships and performance opportunities for young musicians, and extends hospitality to the symphonys professional musicians and guest artists. The leagues piano student showcase is an opportunity for piano students through grade 12 to audition before distinguished judges. Students who excel at the auditions can perform at the showcase public concert at the historic missouri theatre.
$10,000 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $224,581.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $842k (−33%).
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 4% · 2021 3% · 2022 11% · 2023 9% · 2024 16% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Trent Rash
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $20k → $36k.
2 of 9 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.
From the IRS filings of THE MISSOURI SYMPHONY’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 MISSOURI SYMPHONY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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: 2017 75% · 2018 65% · 2019 54% · 2020 54% · 2021 62% · 2022 63% · 2023 82% — growing more concentrated.
“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
80% of THE MISSOURI SYMPHONY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
100% of THE MISSOURI SYMPHONY's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like THE MISSOURI SYMPHONY
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
30% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 THE MISSOURI SYMPHONY: 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 MISSOURI SYMPHONY?
- THE MISSOURI SYMPHONY (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,159 to it, the largest being PAUL D HIGDAY MOZART MUSIC TRUST ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MISSOURI SYMPHONY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $194,159 in grants to THE MISSOURI SYMPHONY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MISSOURI SYMPHONY?
- PAUL D HIGDAY MOZART MUSIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MISSOURI SYMPHONY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 9 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