Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,546 to it, the largest being RMW FOUNDATION ($119,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $126k
- Net assets
- $13k
What Chamber Orchestra First Editions does
Mission
To present public concerts and on-stage discussions of new commissioned works by philadelphia-area composers and of early works by w.a. Mozart. We seek to explore mozart's early progress and process as a composer, and at the same time to present new works by composers of our own time. How these two different themes converge and intersect provides the focus for every first editions concert. In addition, cofe's mission is to combine world-class professional players from swarthmore and haverford colleges. It also explores and experiments with the musicians, orchestra seating, and various methods of combining brief presentations of non-classical, sometimes non-western, music with more traditional approaches to performance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Presentations of public concerts and on-stage discussions of new commissioned works by philadelphia-area composers and of early works by w.a. Mozart.
$11,828 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $11,828.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $24k to $3k (−89%).
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.
100% of CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS’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
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 62% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS?
- CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,546 to it, the largest being RMW FOUNDATION ($119,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $125,546 in grants to CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS?
- RMW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $119,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FIRST EDITIONS 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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