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CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK - OTTORINO RESPIGHI
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK - OTTORINO RESPIGHI (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $340k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $90k
What Chamber Orchestra of New York - Ottorino Respighi does
Mission
Chamber orchestra of new york (cony) is a premier ensemble that features a seasoned roster of our city's most flourishing musicians. The orchestra is internationally distinguished for championing unique repertoire that bridges the classical and modern traditions, including iconic film music, through premieres and world premiere recordings of rediscovered masterworks. Through all-embracing approaches with its distinct programs - from performances to educational outreach - the orchestra aims to cultivate a broader audience across generations for the future of classical music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The 17th concert season included three carnegie hall performances. Cony had a total audience of approximately 800. Our audiences comprise 67% young adults (25-35 years old), 35% minorities, and 72% of nyc residents. Cony is a premier ensemble which also advances the careers of extraordinary young professional musicians, composers, soloists, and conductors. The orchestra consists of fully-auditioned musicians who bring premier performances to classical music patrons. These musicians are frequently from major conservatories in the northeast including the curtis institute, eastman, juilliard, mannes/the new school, manhattan school of music, peabody, and yale, along with additional conservatories domestically and internationally. To-date, 20 former cony musicians have full-time placements with major symphony orchestras, operas, and academic institutions. Revenue includes ticket sales and contributions allocated to the performances.
$108,079 spent$30,714 earned by the program34% of program spendingCony receives commissions and general orchestra-for-hire invitations. These programs further support engaging our brilliant professional musicians.
$188,065 spent$246,250 earned by the program58% of program spendingThe orchestra accepted and processed applications for its new york conducting workshop (nycw) held at the dimenna center for classical music. This program includes the respighi prize in conducting. The winner of the conducting competition conducted a single work or movement at the carnegie concert that followed. There was a spring workshop this year.
$25,968 spent$54,251 earned by the program8% of program spendingThe orchestra accepted and processed applications for its respighi prize music competition for young composers, pianists, and soloists. The competition was established to encourage and offer a performance opportunity for young talented composers and soloists from all countries, through the inspiration of ottorino respighi's music. The competition is open to young composers, pianists, and soloists (instrumental and vocal) under 40 years of age, of all nationalities, currently enrolled in (or recent graduates of) music conservatory or college (including preparatory or post-certificate programs) from all over the world. The winners are selected from a jury panel of veteran artists in the field. Previous years have featured winners from mexico, russia, switzerland, france, usa, italy, germany, brazil, poland, austria, cuba, and israel. The 2025 winners who will be featured in the 2027/2028 season at carnegie hall are percussionist rossana bribo (italy) and pianist lulwa al shamlan (kuwait).
$72 spent$1,950 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $322,184.
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 2018 to 2019, from $33k to $76k (+128%).
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: 2018 4% · 2019 7% · 2020 7% · 2021 39% · 2022 7% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK - OTTORINO RESPIGHI’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Steven Avary
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $12k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK - OTTORINO RESPIGHI’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 OF NEW YORK - OTTORINO RESPIGHI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK - OTTORINO RESPIGHI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK - OTTORINO RESPIGHI draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK - OTTORINO RESPIGHI has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK - OTTORINO RESPIGHI
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 OF NEW YORK - OTTORINO RESPIGHI?
- CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK - OTTORINO RESPIGHI (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK - OTTORINO RESPIGHI have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $21,500 in grants to CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK - OTTORINO RESPIGHI, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK - OTTORINO RESPIGHI?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK - OTTORINO RESPIGHI 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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