Illinois · Nonprofit
West Suburban Symphony Society
West Suburban Symphony Society (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,973 to it, the largest being NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $125k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $78k
What West Suburban Symphony Society does
Mission
Provide symphonic, chamber and choral concerts to audiences in the west suburbs of Chicago.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Program Service Accomplishments: The Society's musical groups presented 6 public concerts during the period July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025. Those concerts were as follows: On 8-3-2024: Cinema Classics, outdoors at Cantigny Park, Wheaton, audience of 1000. On 10-26-204, Illusions, at Wentz Concert Hall, Naperville, audience of 147. On 12-8-2024, Merry, at Hinsdale Central High School, audience of 594. On 3-8-2025, Ode to Joy, at Wentz Concert Hall, Naperville, audience of 500. On 5-4-2025. May the Fourth (and the Force) Be with Us All, Hinsdale Central High School, audience of 567. On 6-22-2025, Legendary Opera, at Wentz Concert Hall, Naperville, audience of 350.
$0 spentOur two youth outreach activities during the period July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, were as follows:On 11-6-2024, 2024, we presented a school-day educational concert for children, attended by field-trip groups from public and private schools, at Christ Church, Oak Brook; the concert drew an audience of 971 elementary and middle-school students.In early 2025, we held auditions for high school musicians seeking the opportunity to win a $500 prize and perform in concert with the orchestra. The winner, a cellist from Evanston, performed at our 6-22-2025 concert.
$0 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2024 to 2025, from $54k to $78k (+44%).
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.
46% of West Suburban Symphony Society’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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $890 → $15k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 West Suburban Symphony Society’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
West Suburban Symphony Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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
80% 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 West Suburban Symphony Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
West Suburban Symphony Society draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $933 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
West Suburban Symphony Society's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
93%
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 West Suburban Symphony Society: 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 West Suburban Symphony Society?
- West Suburban Symphony Society (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,973 to it, the largest being NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does West Suburban Symphony Society have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $19,973 in grants to West Suburban Symphony Society, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of West Suburban Symphony Society?
- NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like West Suburban Symphony Society find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 3 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