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Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia

Enriches the musical life of philadelphia through its grants, awards, & performances.

$76k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$431kEducation$16kCommunity Improvement$12k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $53,550, the rows itemized in this filing. The $75,550 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$6,150
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOWERBIRD INC$11,150
NETWORK FOR NEW MUSIC$6,150
NUEVA ESPERANZA$6,150
ORCHESTRA 2001$6,150
ASTRAL ARTISTS$6,150
PRISM QUARTET INC$6,150
LYRIC FEST$6,000
TEMPESTA DI MARE$5,650
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 1ST EDITIONS: $6k → 10%PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND: $8k → 22%VARIANT SIX: $5k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $30k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $30k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $30k → 22%Philadelphia Chamber Music Society: $30k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $30k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $25k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $25k → 22%ASTRAL ARTISTS: $10k → 22%TEMPLE MUSIC PREP: $10k → 22%CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $9k → 22%ASTRAL ARTISTS: $6k → 22%CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $6k → 22%TEMPLE MUSIC PREP: $6k → 22%DOLCE SUONO: $6k → 22%ASTRAL ARTISTS: $6k → 22%DOLCE SUONO CHAMBER CONCERT SERIES: $5k → 22%MENDELSSOHN CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA: $6k → 22%BOWERBIRD INC: $11k → 22%BOWERBIRD: $8k → 22%BOWERBIRD: $6k → 22%BOWERBIRD: $6k → 22%ORCHESTRA 2001: $6k → 22%NUEVA ESPERANZA: $6k → 22%THE MANN CENTER: $10k → 22%Nueva Esperanza: $6k → 22%THE MANN CENTER: $5k → 22%TEMPESTA DI MARE: $6k → 22%TEMPESTA DI MARE: $5k → 22%PRISM QUARTET INC: $10k → 22%PRISM QUARTET INC: $6k → 22%NETWORK FOR NEW MUSIC: $7k → 22%PRISM QUARTET INC: $6k → 22%NETWORK FOR NEW MUSIC: $6k → 22%PRISM QUARTET INC: $6k → 22%LYRIC FEST: $6k → 22%PRISM Quartet Inc: $6k → 22%NETWORK FOR NEW MUSIC: $6k → 22%PRISM QUARTET INC: $5k → 22%INTER CULTURAL JOURNEYS: $6k → 22%INTERCULTURAL JOURNEYS: $6k → 22%Ars Nova: $6k → 22%ARS NOVA: $5k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$428k · 14 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
4

Total granted

$428k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+80%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PC
    Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
    8× · 2017–2025 · $206k · revenue +76%
  • PQ
    PRISM QUARTET INCORPORATED
    6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +95%
  • JA
    JOURNEY ARTS
    3× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +153%

Funded once

  • PT
    PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BANDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +127%
  • CO
    CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -48% · 32% of their budget
  • MC
    MENDELSSOHN CLUB OF PHILADELPHIAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +80%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

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…

Arts & Culture
2
American Chamber Ensemble Inc

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.

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3
Foundation for Modern Opera
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4
Vanguard Concerts
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5
Muse Cincinnati Womens Choir

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble

Offering Professional Music Concerts

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7
Cantata Profana Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Princeton Pro Musica

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Resonance Works

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Warminster Symphony Society

Performs classical music for the community

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11
Spire Chamber Ensemble

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Philadelphia Sinfonia Association

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orchestra 2001 Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society: $206,150 · Arts & CulturePhiladelphia Chamber Music SocietyPRISM QUARTET INCORPORATED: $39,767 · Arts & CulturePRISM QUARTET INCORPORATEDJOURNEY ARTS: $23,053 · Arts & CultureJOURNEY ARTSBOWERBIRD INC: $19,174 · Arts & CultureARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC: $17,250 · Arts & CultureMANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $15,537 · Arts & CultureCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $15,337 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $51,567 · Arts & Culture+6 moreASTRAL ARTISTS INC: $15,962 · EmploymentNueva Esperanza Inc: $12,150 · EmploymentTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $16,337 · EducationLYRIC FEST: $6,000 · EducationNETWORK FOR NEW MUSIC: $13,267 · OtherPIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND: $7,537 · Other
Arts & Culture$387,835Employment$28,112Education$22,337Other$20,804

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPhiladelphia Chamber Music Society: $206,150 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetPRISM QUARTET INCORPORATED: $39,767 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetJOURNEY ARTS: $23,053 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetBOWERBIRD INC: $19,174 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC: $17,250 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $16,337 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASTRAL ARTISTS INC: $15,962 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $15,537 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $15,337 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR NEW MUSIC: $13,267 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetORCHESTRA 2001 INC: $12,150 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNueva Esperanza Inc: $12,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOLCE SUONO ENSEMBLE INC: $11,300 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTEMPESTA DI MARE INC: $10,800 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND: $7,537 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS: $6,246 over 1y, 32% of budgetLYRIC FEST: $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMENDELSSOHN CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA: $5,625 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetVARIANT 6: $5,446 over 1y, 8.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Presser FoundationThe Philadelphia Cult…The William Penn Foun…The University of the…The Pew Charitable Tr…New Music USA IncThe Philadelphia Foun…The Amphion Foundatio…Borowsky Family Found…The Aaron Copland Fun…Independence Foundati…The Barra Foundation …
The Presser FoundationPA36.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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