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Butler County Symphony Association Inc

Butler County Symphony Association Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,698 to it, the largest being JANICE PHILLIPS LARRICK FAMILY CHARITABLE ($193,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$411k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$343k
Net assets
$1.1M
4/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Butler County Symphony Association Inc does

Mission

To serve the community by providing performance opportunities for area musicians to play symphonic and classical music, present concerts that provide opportunity for the community to hear and appreciate symphonic and classical music, and to act as an educational resource aimed at fostering interest in, and appreciation of, symphonic and classical music.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Performance of six concerts per season, one of which is a family concert geared for all ages. An additional community concert was held this year at an outdoor venue with no cost to attend.

    $359,199 spent$102,887 earned by the program
    90% of program spending
  2. Outreach activities include school age performances, young artist competition, orchestra partnership program, chamber music series and and summer concert series.

    $40,274 spent$44,224 earned by the program
    10% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $399,473.

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 ($225k) Expenses 100 ($289k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 114 ($256k) Expenses 106 ($306k) Net assets 95 ($977k)2019 Revenue 135 ($304k) Expenses 105 ($304k) Net assets 96 ($986k)2020 Revenue 102 ($230k) Expenses 100 ($290k) Net assets 89 ($913k)2021 Revenue 106 ($238k) Expenses 53 ($152k) Net assets 109 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 164 ($369k) Expenses 119 ($345k) Net assets 96 ($987k)2023 Revenue 277 ($624k) Expenses 148 ($427k) Net assets 116 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 150 ($338k) Expenses 168 ($485k) Net assets 106 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 182 ($411k) Expenses 172 ($498k) Net assets 104 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (182)Expenses (172)Net assets (104)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 2020 to 2021, from $944k to $1.1M (+21%).

$1.0M
$993k
$1.0M
$944k
$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.1M
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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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2021 4% · 2022 15% · 2023 4% · 2024 8% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

56% of Butler County Symphony Association Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$64k
’17
−$51k
’18
$219
’19
−$59k
’20
$86k
’21
$24k
’22
$196k
’23
−$148k
’24
−$87k
’25
1.3
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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Listed302828232322242220
Joined·+7+0+6+11+5+9+1+3
No longer listed·9011116735
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $32k → $32k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Butler County Symphony Association 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

Butler County Symphony Association Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

56%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 68% · 2019 65% · 2020 78% · 2021 72% · 2022 61% · 2023 79% — 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

29% of Butler County Symphony Association Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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

97% of Butler County Symphony Association Inc's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
CA
MD
TN

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

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Butler County Symphony Association Inc has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−21% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 15%Fundraising 5%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

88%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Butler County Symphony Association Inc?
Butler County Symphony Association Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,698 to it, the largest being JANICE PHILLIPS LARRICK FAMILY CHARITABLE ($193,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Butler County Symphony Association Inc have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $342,698 in grants to Butler County Symphony Association Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Butler County Symphony Association Inc?
JANICE PHILLIPS LARRICK FAMILY CHARITABLE is the largest funder on record, with $193,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Butler County 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 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