Ohio · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON
FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON (Ohio) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,906,976 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY ($3,712,697). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Friends of Levitt Pavilion Dayton does
Mission
The mission of Levitt Pavilion Dayton is building community through the power of music, one free concert at a time. At the intersection of social impact and the arts, Levitt is removing barriers and creating access for all, while strengthening the social fabric of the community through connections and building social capital.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
As part of the national levitt foundation network, Friends of Levitt Pavilion Dayton provide a concert pavilion in the local community to host an annual series of free, high quality concerts and performances open to the public. The concerts support and promote cultural opportunities and celebrate diversity by bringing the community together through many different genres of music, including family-friendly concerts. All musicians and artists are paid to perform. When concerts are not in season the venue is available for use by other non-profit community groups. The levitt pavilion dayton is an anchor destination bringing new energy into the downtown dayton core which strengthens the social fabric of the city and attracts further investment and redevelopment.
$779,768 spentof which $58,058 as grants$1,045,725 earned by the program84% of program spendingThe organization provides for outreach events in underserved areas of the greater Dayton community, camps for students to learn songwriting skills and other small intimate events provided throughout the community.
$144,537 spent$124,707 earned by the program16% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $924,305.
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 2017 to 2018, from $4.4M to $1.5M (−65%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% 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.
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
Lisa Wagner
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $161k → $356k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON’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 LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
78% 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 LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 96% · 2019 98% · 2020 75% · 2021 77% · 2022 48% · 2023 56% — 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
82% of FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
67% of FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.9M that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Organizations like FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON
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 Ohio
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
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 FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON?
- FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON (Ohio) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,906,976 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY ($3,712,697). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $5,906,976 in grants to FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON?
- DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY is the largest funder on record, with $3,712,697 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 19 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