North Carolina · Nonprofit
WILMINGTON SYMPHONIC WINDS
WILMINGTON SYMPHONIC WINDS (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,172 to it, the largest being CORNING INCORPORATED FOUNDATION ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $34k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $17k
What Wilmington Symphonic Winds does
Mission
Wilmington Symphonic Winds is a regional musical ensemble that provides memorable performances of the highest quality wind music in a wide range of musical styles for the public at large and educational outreach. All attendees receive free admission, particularly seniors and students. The Wilmington Symphonic Winds performed 3 concerts in 2025: on February 16th, May 18th, and October 26th, with an audience attendance of between 500 and 900.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We performed 3 concerts in 2025, on February 16th, May 18th, and October 26th, with an audience attendance of between 500 and 900. Many attendees were seniors and students who received ticket vouchers for free admission as part of community outreach
$30,356 spentof which $7,320 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,356.
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 $12k to $21k (+70%).
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.
100% of WILMINGTON SYMPHONIC WINDS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $5k → $400.
From the IRS filings of WILMINGTON SYMPHONIC WINDS’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
WILMINGTON SYMPHONIC WINDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% 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 WILMINGTON SYMPHONIC WINDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2022 93% · 2023 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
WILMINGTON SYMPHONIC WINDS draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
WILMINGTON SYMPHONIC WINDS has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like WILMINGTON SYMPHONIC WINDS
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 WILMINGTON SYMPHONIC WINDS: 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 WILMINGTON SYMPHONIC WINDS?
- WILMINGTON SYMPHONIC WINDS (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,172 to it, the largest being CORNING INCORPORATED FOUNDATION ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILMINGTON SYMPHONIC WINDS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $19,172 in grants to WILMINGTON SYMPHONIC WINDS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILMINGTON SYMPHONIC WINDS?
- CORNING INCORPORATED FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILMINGTON SYMPHONIC WINDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 5 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