Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF MT LEBANON PERCUSSION
FRIENDS OF MT LEBANON PERCUSSION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,867 to it, the largest being THE LINABURG FOUNDATION ($1,300). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $133k
What Friends of Mt Lebanon Percussion does
Mission
To promote and support a comprehensive and progressive percussion based music program which will be of musical and educational benefit to the student members the Mt Lebanon School District and the Mt Lebanon Community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Spring and Winter Concert Series: Director and assistant director rehearsal stipends production tech crews equipment equipment repair and maintenance and student scholarship lessons for multiple concerts including outreach concerts in the community. Over 2,400 concertgoers watching around 50 student musicians.
$79,927 spent87% of program spendingAdventures in Percussion Summer Camp: Director stipends equipment and food for a two week summer camp. . Providing instruction and performance opportunities for 45 elementary and middle school students in the district as well as volunteer opportunities for high school performers to mentor younger atendees.
$3,021 spent3% of program spendingMarching Band Tech Stipends: Provide percussion instructors for all percussion sections for marching band for around 50 student musicians.
$6,500 spent7% of program spendingAdministrative expenses office supplies insurance website
$1,531 spent2% of program spendingDonation to Childrens Hospital Free Care Fund
$1,000 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $91,979.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $95k to $120k (+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.
31% of FRIENDS OF MT LEBANON PERCUSSION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $64.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 MT LEBANON PERCUSSION’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 MT LEBANON PERCUSSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 82% · 2021 61% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 MT LEBANON PERCUSSION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $217 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 MT LEBANON PERCUSSION 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 MT LEBANON PERCUSSION
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
98%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MT LEBANON PERCUSSION?
- FRIENDS OF MT LEBANON PERCUSSION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,867 to it, the largest being THE LINABURG FOUNDATION ($1,300). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF MT LEBANON PERCUSSION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,867 in grants to FRIENDS OF MT LEBANON PERCUSSION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF MT LEBANON PERCUSSION?
- THE LINABURG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF MT LEBANON PERCUSSION 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 2022–2025), 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