Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC
ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,383,702 to it, the largest being THE LEIGH AND EDWIN SCHADT VIOLIN SC ($1,849,504). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $8.4M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Allentown Symphony Association Inc does
Mission
Incorporated on july 2, 1951, the allentown symphony association (asa) is the operating organization of the allentown symphony orchestra (aso)and miller symphony hall (msh). The mission of the asa is to provide a first-class orchestra and hall, quality performing arts, and cultural education in partnership with the community. Each year, the asa fulfills its mission first through high- quality programming and educational services that impact community members of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds and second through improvements and maintenance of miller symphony hall.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The allentown symphony association operates the region's only professional symphonic orchestra, owns/operates historic miller symphony hall in downtown allentown, pa, and has a tradition of bringing internationally renowned guest artists and innovative programming to audiences in the lehigh valley and surrounding region. The allentown symphony orchestra, whose 74 classically trained musicians are drawn from pennsylvania and four surrounding states has risen to high standards of artistic excellence under music director diane wittry during 30 seasons to-date. The allentown symphony association is one of the smallest budget orchestras in the united states that owns and operates its own performance venue, historic miller symphony hall. Since the early 2000's the symphony has funded a series of capital improvements, at a cost of more than 12 million, beginning with the fowler education wing, which provided the 1899 -era theater with much needed backstage space and renovated existing spaces in the building. Miller symphony hall offers three performance spaces and facilities that can be rented to the public for meetings, conferences, and special events. During the 2024-2025 season, the…
$3,692,025 spent$730,461 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,692,025.
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 2020 to 2021, from $14M to $16M (+11%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 15% · 2019 15% · 2020 16% · 2021 19% · 2022 26% · 2023 15% · 2024 14% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $446k → $1.1M.
9 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.3M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lehigh Valley Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 funders by total. 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
ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 57% · 2019 36% · 2020 28% · 2021 31% · 2022 29% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
70% of ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
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
ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$45k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC?
- ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,383,702 to it, the largest being THE LEIGH AND EDWIN SCHADT VIOLIN SC ($1,849,504). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $8,383,702 in grants to ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC?
- THE LEIGH AND EDWIN SCHADT VIOLIN SC is the largest funder on record, with $1,849,504 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 51 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing