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ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT

ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,500 to it, the largest being AG FOUNDATION ($70,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$63k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$229k
Net assets
$1.4M
8/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What All-Star Orchestra Summit does

Mission

Founded in 2008, the mission of the all-star orchestra ( the organization) is to make accessible, for free, the joy and understanding of classical music to the widest possible audience through public television and the world's largest educational website: the khan academy. To achieve this the organization produces, films, and records classical and contemporary orchestral masterpieces in a concert hall, with the resulting programs to be broadcast over local, national and interactive public media. The programs include a strong educational component and are inspiring new directions for music education ( 6 million music students reached via khan academy), entertainment, and high-level artistic exposure for a broad and diverse audience. Season one was recorded in 2012,season two in 2014,season 3 in 2016, season four in 2018. National broadcasts and rebroadcasts via american public television have been continuous since september 2013. To date the programs have won seven emmy awards and the a

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. ASO expenses relate mostly to creating content, a fact more evident in ASO's audited financial statements than in the 990 . For example, the 256,990 "functional expenses" figure (Part IX, line 25) does not fully include ASO's program investments that are partially listed under "intangible assets" (see Part X, line 14), which for 2023/2024 was $712,962 .

    $256,990 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. ASO Public TV Accomplishments National broadcasts of seven seasons,29 programs on Public Television since 2013, winning ten Emmy awards and the ASCAP Broadcasting Excellence award. Season Four: "All-Star Band Masterpieces"-recorded in 2017 in partnership with the United States Marine Band-premiered in November,2018, and is currently in national broadcast rotation. The ASO program "New England Spirit" was nominated for two emmy awards and won the award for "special event" in May,2019. Season 5 was recorded in August,2019 and broadcast nationally in 2020. Season 6 was recorded IN AUGUST 2022 AND WAS Broadcast nattionally in 2023 winning an Emmy award. SEASON 7 WAS RECORDED IN AUGUST 2023 and commenced National broadcast in October 2024. Planning is now underway for recording of season 8 in 2026.

  3. ASO Online Education Accomplishments Created a unique music education website in 2014 in partnership with the Khan Academy that in 2018 is reaching over 6 million students worldwide. Original content produced by ASO includes: Basics of Music, Instruments of the Orchestra, Masterpieces in Performance, Work Analyses, etc. Featured in Musical America as an "Innovator for 2016." Future plans include continual growth of music educational content, with a goal to reach 10 million students in the next year.New content is regularly being added. Lessons are being translated into multiple languages to reach students world-wide

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $256,990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($280k) Expenses 100 ($395k) Net assets 100 ($831k)2018 Revenue 64 ($179k) Expenses 55 ($217k) Net assets 95 ($793k)2019 Revenue 80 ($223k) Expenses 58 ($228k) Net assets 95 ($788k)2020 Revenue 38 ($106k) Expenses 45 ($179k) Net assets 86 ($715k)2021 Revenue 8 ($22k) Expenses 43 ($170k) Net assets 68 ($567k)2022 Revenue 351 ($983k) Expenses 55 ($217k) Net assets 160 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 212 ($595k) Expenses 64 ($255k) Net assets 201 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 88 ($248k) Expenses 77 ($304k) Net assets 195 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 23 ($63k) Expenses 72 ($286k) Net assets 168 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (23)Expenses (72)Net assets (168)Peer revenue range

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 $741k to $1.6M (+116%).

$1.3M
$980k
$1.0M
$883k
$741k
$1.6M
$1.9M
$1.8M
$1.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

91% of ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$115k
’17
−$38k
’18
−$5k
’19
−$73k
’20
−$148k
’21
$767k
’22
$340k
’23
−$56k
’24
−$223k
’25
6.2
months of
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.

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Listed171716161612121010
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·01004020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $17k → $24k.

2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT’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

ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

31%
largest funder
59%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 91% · 2019 26% · 2020 41% · 2022 78% · 2023 64% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

40% of ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 8 states in all.

WA
NY
OH
NJ
CA
MO
VA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−354% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−17% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 4%Fundraising 6%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

19%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

WA
NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT?
ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,500 to it, the largest being AG FOUNDATION ($70,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $228,500 in grants to ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT?
AG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 12 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