· Public charity
Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia
Enriches the musical life of philadelphia through its grants, awards, & performances.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $53,550 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $75,550 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOWERBIRD INC | $11,150 |
| ASTRAL ARTISTS | $6,150 |
| ORCHESTRA 2001 | $6,150 |
| NETWORK FOR NEW MUSIC | $6,150 |
| NUEVA ESPERANZA | $6,150 |
| PRISM QUARTET INC | $6,150 |
| LYRIC FEST | $6,000 |
| TEMPESTA DI MARE | $5,650 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- PCPhiladelphia Chamber Music Society8× · 2017–2025 · $206k · revenue +76%
- PQPRISM QUARTET INCORPORATED6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +95%
- JAJOURNEY ARTS3× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- PTPIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BANDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +127%
- COCHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONSone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -48% · 32% of their budget
- MCMENDELSSOHN CLUB OF PHILADELPHIAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +80%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.
MUSE is an inclusive and feminist choral community advocating for peace and social justice. We unite our voices to raise awareness and inspire change in ourselves, our audiences, and our world through partnerships that honor the humanity…
Offering Professional Music Concerts
Cantata Profana, Inc. (www.cantataprofana.com) is a vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble that presents concerts of classical and chamber music ranging from the Baroque to modern eras with a unique narrative style. Our purpose is to…
Laws of the state of new jersey. the mission of the organization is to perform choral masterworks and other works of the choral literature with energy, passion, and uncompromising artistic excellence. the organization believes in the power…
Resonance works is a Pittsburgh-based performing arts non-profit that empowers musicians and inspires audiences with intimate, genre-defying productions featuring everything from opera and musical theatre to orchestral, choral, and chamber…
Performs classical music for the community
Spire Chamber Ensemble inspires educates and enriches the Kansas City metropolitan community through the transformational power of choral music performed at the highest artistic level.
The organization supports the artistic growth of young musicians from a diverse student population in the delaware valley by providing opportunities for high-level ensemble experience in a supportive educational environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orchestra 2001 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Temple University - of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Philadelphia Chamber Music Society ↗
- Who funds PRISM QUARTET INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY ARTS ↗
- Who funds BOWERBIRD INC ↗
- Who funds ARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds ASTRAL ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR NEW MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Nueva Esperanza Inc ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA 2001 INC ↗
- Who funds DOLCE SUONO ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds TEMPESTA DI MARE INC ↗
- Who funds PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS ↗
- Who funds LYRIC FEST ↗
- Who funds MENDELSSOHN CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds VARIANT 6 ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Presser Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The William Penn Foundation · The University of the Arts · The Pew Charitable Trusts · New Music USA Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Borowsky Family Foundation · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Independence Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.