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ENCORE SERIES INC

ENCORE SERIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $851,881 to it, the largest being PSALM 103 FOUNDATION ($227,400). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$7.4M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$852k
Net assets
$-2495099
14/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Encore Series Inc does

Mission

Encore Series Inc. Is the presenter of the philly pops, a non-profit orchestra dedicated to both large and smaller scale performances that feature american popular music often presented on holidays of american tradition. In addition, the philly pops presents popsinschools, a partnership in the main with the school district of phialdelphia, which provides supplemental music education on location at schools and community centers in the philadelphia area.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.

Program

  1. The 21/22 season, fy22, saw the pops orchestra return to its subscription series and christmas series following the pandemic. The pops performed thirty times at its longtime home, the kimmel center, as compared to none in fy21. Supported by contributed revenue, the pops also performed its salute series, dedicated to honoring the service community, with three large scale salute concerts free to help first responder audiences to celebrate memorial day, independence week and christmas, as well as a smaller set of activities for veterans' day. Popsinschools returned to the classroom after a pandemic year and a half as a digital offering.

    $5,159,690 spent$2,968,475 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2021 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,159,690.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.9M) Expenses 100 ($4.9M)2018 Revenue 117 ($5.8M) Expenses 114 ($5.5M)2019 Revenue 112 ($5.5M) Expenses 123 ($6.0M)2020 Revenue 101 ($5.0M) Expenses 116 ($5.6M)2021 Revenue 26 ($1.3M) Expenses 38 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 151 ($7.4M) Expenses 137 ($6.7M)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (151)Expenses (137)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $994k to $1.5M (+55%).

$953k
$1.1M
$994k
$1.5M
$1.1M
$786k
201720182019202020212022
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 17% · 2022 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$86k
’17
$225k
’18
−$428k
’19
−$642k
’20
−$551k
’21
$783k
’22
0.4
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.

Chief executive

Karen Corbin

COO (president & CEO eff 3/23)

Board chair

Joseph Del Raso

Chairman

As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

201720182019202020212022
Listed242222283133
Joined·+9+3+9+5+7
No longer listed·113325
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $38k → $66k.

4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 ENCORE SERIES 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

ENCORE SERIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

26% 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 ENCORE SERIES INC.

27%
largest funder
65%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 74% · 2019 57% · 2020 32% · 2021 46% · 2022 32% · 2023 38% — 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.

How long its funders stay

25% of ENCORE SERIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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

60% of ENCORE SERIES INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

ME
PA
MO
DE
NC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $202k 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

Organizations like ENCORE SERIES 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 15%Fundraising 8%

Governance

33
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ENCORE SERIES INC?
ENCORE SERIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $851,881 to it, the largest being PSALM 103 FOUNDATION ($227,400). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ENCORE SERIES INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $851,881 in grants to ENCORE SERIES INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ENCORE SERIES INC?
PSALM 103 FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $227,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ENCORE SERIES 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 21 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