Indiana · Nonprofit
FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC
FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,984,340 to it, the largest being ENGLISH-BONTER-MITCHELL FDN ($1,765,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.8M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $41M
What Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra Inc does
Mission
The mission of the philharmonic is to foster and instill a lifelong love of music across the orchestral spectrum through live performances and educational experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The fort wayne philharmonic orchestra is a civic not-for-profit organization. Our primary function is to provide musical entertainment and education for the community. Our concert season is approximately 28 weeks long. Concerts served approximately 37,000 individuals and educational programs served approximately 40,000 individuals.
$5,941,708 spentof which $13,222 as grants$995,103 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,941,708.
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 2023 to 2024, from $32M to $40M (+26%).
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: 2021 22% · 2022 4% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Charles Cammack Jr
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $307k → $462k.
12 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $2.2M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 38% · 2019 31% · 2020 33% · 2021 32% · 2022 40% · 2023 37% — 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
52% of FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
54% of FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $939k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
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 FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC?
- FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,984,340 to it, the largest being ENGLISH-BONTER-MITCHELL FDN ($1,765,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $5,984,340 in grants to FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC?
- ENGLISH-BONTER-MITCHELL FDN is the largest funder on record, with $1,765,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 40 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