Minnesota · Nonprofit
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society (Minnesota) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,697,589 to it, the largest being The Arts Partnership ($5,635,003). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 89
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $72M
What The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society does
Mission
To enrich the Twin Cities community by sharing distinctive and engaging chamber orchestra performances. We are committed to inclusivity and strive to provide all people in our community with opportunities to connect with our music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Organization Summary:Founded in 1959, the Grammy Award-winning Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) is renowned for its artistic excellence, remarkable versatility of musical styles and adventurous programming. SPCO concerts are primarily musician-led and include a broad range of repertoire, from Baroque works to new music, in close collaboration with a dynamic roster of internationally acclaimed Artistic Partners. Through a distinctive musician-led artistic model, SPCO musicians lead and develop the orchestra's programming, determine members and choose artistic collaborators. (Continued on Sch. O)
$8,318,599 spent$1,880,677 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,318,599.
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 $48M to $61M (+27%).
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% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 5% · 2021 15% · 2022 8% · 2023 4% · 2024 5% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society’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. 4 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.
Board chair
Ann Huntrods-Board Chair Elect
(Until 12/2024)/Chair (Beg 12/2024)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $2.4M.
26 of 89 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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: $357k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Oakleaf Endowment Trust for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra). These are real filings, and they are not money The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society raised.
From the IRS filings of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 89 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 Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 51% · 2019 33% · 2020 35% · 2021 24% · 2022 42% · 2023 45% — 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
55% of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
56% of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society'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 $8.1M that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society 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 Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $430k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$430k
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 Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Arts Partnership · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society?
- The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society (Minnesota) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,697,589 to it, the largest being The Arts Partnership ($5,635,003). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society have?
- IRS filings report 89 organizations giving $18,697,589 in grants to The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society, 64 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society?
- The Arts Partnership is the largest funder on record, with $5,635,003 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 89 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