Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ASTRAL ARTISTS INC
ASTRAL ARTISTS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,225,889 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($627,550). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $151k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $698k
What Astral Artists Inc does
Mission
Astral's mission is to empower outstanding emerging musicians to shape purposeful and sustainable careers that inspire, connect, and excite diverse audiences. In november 2024, the board voted and approved that for various reasons, the organization will cease operations. The dissolution process is under way but not yet complete.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Career guidance & development: early professional career services and mentoring for highly skilled classical musicians. Services also include contracting astral roster artists to perform on other concert series, networking opportunities, entrepreneurial development, and collaborative concerts with other presenting organizations.
$142,772 spent70% of program spendingPhiladelphia concert series: high profile performances in standard and contemporary repertoire in philadelphia venues.
$32,406 spent$27,020 earned by the program16% of program spendingEducation and community development: astral's education and community engagement programs (classroom classics ) bring outstanding classical music to diverse audiences throughout the community. Classroom classics: astral artists work closely with students through educational residencies and in-school concerts.
$27,542 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $202,720.
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 $1.3M to $948k (−25%).
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 5% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 9% · 2022 8% · 2023 15% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of ASTRAL ARTISTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Lourdes Starr
President & CEO
Board chair
John B Wright Ii Esq
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $72k → $242k.
6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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: $251k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Presser Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ASTRAL ARTISTS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ASTRAL ARTISTS INC’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
ASTRAL ARTISTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 24% · 2019 32% · 2020 70% · 2021 67% · 2022 64% · 2023 44% — 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
61% of ASTRAL ARTISTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% 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
88% of ASTRAL ARTISTS INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
ASTRAL ARTISTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ASTRAL ARTISTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$35k
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 ASTRAL ARTISTS 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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 ASTRAL ARTISTS INC: 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 ASTRAL ARTISTS INC?
- ASTRAL ARTISTS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,225,889 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($627,550). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASTRAL ARTISTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,225,889 in grants to ASTRAL ARTISTS INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASTRAL ARTISTS INC?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $627,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASTRAL ARTISTS 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 29 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