Mississippi · Nonprofit
TUPELO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC
TUPELO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC (Mississippi) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,600 to it, the largest being E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation ($67,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $438k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $79k
- Net assets
- $199k
What Tupelo Symphony Orchestra Assoc does
Mission
To provide quality classical music for the citizens of north mississippi, to strengthen community outreach, and to increase music education for all levels.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Production of several concert performances and creation of youth orchestra.
$357,358 spent$145,499 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $357,358.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $200k to $287k (+43%).
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: 2018 7% · 2019 9% · 2020 21% · 2021 8% · 2022 10% · 2023 6% · 2024 8% · 2025 11% · 2026 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of TUPELO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Debra Robison
Chairman
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $80k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest North Mississippi Health Services Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money TUPELO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC raised.
From the IRS filings of TUPELO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC’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
TUPELO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
TUPELO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
TUPELO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $79k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 630 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like TUPELO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC
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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TUPELO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC: 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 TUPELO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC?
- TUPELO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC (Mississippi) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,600 to it, the largest being E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation ($67,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TUPELO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $78,600 in grants to TUPELO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC.
- Who is the largest funder of TUPELO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC?
- E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $67,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TUPELO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2018–2026), and the filings of 2 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