Kentucky · Nonprofit
LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC
LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,063,417 to it, the largest being LEXARTS INC ($1,044,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $-251634
What Lexington Philharmonic Society Inc does
Mission
To foster excellence and innovation in performances and presentation of great music; to enrich the lives of our diverse citizenry; to educate current and future audiences and to bring distinction to our community through the orchestra's presence and standing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The lexington philharmonic presents over 100 concerts, educational, and community engagement programs annually, designed to engage the diverse populations of central kentucky in the power and joy of music and live performance. The season series features classical music, new music, and world premiere works, along with world-renowned guest artists. Many life-long learning programs are offered free of charge with community partners such as the lfucg senior center and fayette county public schools. Other educational programs include free pre-concert lectures, and musiclab. Lexphil reaches thousands of listeners through its partnership of on-air broadcasts and streaming with weku fm.
$1,049,944 spent$525,661 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,049,944.
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 2020 to 2021, from $109k to $313k (+188%).
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: 2017 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 36% · 2022 26% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY 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. 6 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
Brooke Raby
Executive director
Board chair
John Wharton
Foundation chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $312k → $200k.
9 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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: $478k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY 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
LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 62% · 2019 72% · 2020 57% · 2021 42% · 2022 52% · 2023 50% — 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
71% of LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC'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
89% of LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $781k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.1M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lexington Philharmonic Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY 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 LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC?
- LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,063,417 to it, the largest being LEXARTS INC ($1,044,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,063,417 in grants to LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC?
- LEXARTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,044,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 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