New York · Nonprofit
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC (New York) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,658,300 to it, the largest being THE JOHN R OISHEI FOUNDATION ($5,904,488). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $9.8M
What Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society Inc does
Mission
The buffalo philharmonic orchestra produces symphonic music for the cultural benefit of the buffalo, new york area including artistic education programs for area youth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The buffalo philharmonic orchestra produces symphonic music for the cultural benefit of the buffalo, new york area including artistic education programs for area youth.
$11,985,630 spent$4,698,084 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,985,630.
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 $10M to $15M (+47%).
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 10% · 2018 9% · 2019 9% · 2020 21% · 2021 32% · 2022 24% · 2023 8% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Scott Stenclik
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $585k → $1.8M.
15 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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: $10.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 62% · 2019 36% · 2020 37% · 2021 79% · 2022 53% · 2023 50% — broadly stable.
“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
43% of BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
95% of BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $165k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$165k
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 BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- 786 Delaware LLC · disregarded
- The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC?
- BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC (New York) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,658,300 to it, the largest being THE JOHN R OISHEI FOUNDATION ($5,904,488). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $15,658,300 in grants to BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC?
- THE JOHN R OISHEI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,904,488 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 35 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