Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING
FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,330 to it, the largest being READING MUSICAL FOUNDATION ($67,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $117k
- Net assets
- $92k
What Friends of Chamber Music of Reading does
Mission
To promote an interest in and love of classical music by presenting for the benefit of the community an annual series of concerts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided a series of chamber music concerts performed by professional musicians for the public.
$53,318 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $53,318.
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 $66k to $82k (+23%).
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.
99% of FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $12k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING’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
FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
63% 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 FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 70% · 2019 71% · 2020 70% · 2021 59% · 2022 67% · 2023 64% — 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
100% of FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING
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
85%
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 FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING: 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 FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING?
- FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,330 to it, the largest being READING MUSICAL FOUNDATION ($67,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $117,330 in grants to FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING?
- READING MUSICAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $67,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING 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 6 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