Florida · Nonprofit
THE TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
THE TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,331 to it, the largest being JACARLENE FOUNDATION ($109,840). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $343k
- Net assets
- $985k
What The Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra Inc does
Mission
The mission of the tallahassee symphony is to engage, enrich, and inspire people at all stages of life through great music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The orchestra is a performing arts organization whose mission is to produce concerts of symphonic repertoire and various community engagement/educational activities. During the season they present 6 masterworks concerts, two holiday pops shows, other specialty concerts, and special children's performances. Additionally, the orchestra provides a free strings program in four title I schools in leon county.
$1,350,992 spent$600,252 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,350,992.
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 2021 to 2022, from $688k to $1.0M (+52%).
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 12% · 2018 14% · 2019 15% · 2020 15% · 2021 25% · 2022 36% · 2023 28% · 2024 16% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of THE TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Amanda Stringer
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $1k → $163k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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: $30k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of North Florida Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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 TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
49% 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 TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 62% · 2022 48% · 2023 67% — 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
75% of THE TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
74% of THE TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k 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.
Against its field
THE TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $110k on record — $105k federal, $5k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$105k
- ADVERTISING - GENERAL $5k
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 TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
- THE TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,331 to it, the largest being JACARLENE FOUNDATION ($109,840). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $343,331 in grants to THE TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC?
- JACARLENE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $109,840 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC 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 12 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