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MARIO LANZA INSTITUTE

MARIO LANZA INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,500 to it, the largest being COCCIA FOUNDATION COCCIA FOUNDATION ($4,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$28k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$36k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Mario Lanza Institute does

Mission

To perpetuate and promote the legacy and accomplishments of mario lanza through the maintenance of a museum and the awarding of scholarships in the singer's name to provide musically talented young people with the opportunity and incentive to study music.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Awarded mario lanza scholarships and audition encouragement awards to both perpetuate and promote the singers' accomplishments and provide musically talented people the opportunity and incentive to study music.

    $4,500 spentof which $4,500 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $4,500.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($19k) Expenses 100 ($24k) Net assets 100 ($20k)2018 Revenue 169 ($32k) Expenses 117 ($28k) Net assets 120 ($24k)2019 Revenue 178 ($33k) Expenses 105 ($25k) Net assets 162 ($32k)2020 Revenue 99 ($19k) Expenses 89 ($21k) Net assets 150 ($30k)2021 Revenue 210 ($39k) Expenses 115 ($27k) Net assets 209 ($42k)2022 Revenue 152 ($29k) Expenses 114 ($27k) Net assets 216 ($43k)2023 Revenue 138 ($26k) Expenses 119 ($28k) Net assets 204 ($41k)2024 Revenue 158 ($30k) Expenses 125 ($30k) Net assets 204 ($41k)2025 Revenue 151 ($28k) Expenses 138 ($33k) Net assets 182 ($36k)
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Revenue (151)Expenses (138)Net assets (182)

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $30k to $42k (+40%).

$20k
$24k
$32k
$30k
$42k
$43k
$41k
$41k
$36k
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Total assets

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.

2017
2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
$4k
’18
$8k
’19
−$2k
’20
$12k
’21
$1k
’22
−$2k
’23
−$80
’24
−$4k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $2k.

Funder
'19
'20
'23
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of MARIO LANZA INSTITUTE’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.

Where its funders are

MARIO LANZA INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.

NJ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MARIO LANZA INSTITUTE?
MARIO LANZA INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,500 to it, the largest being COCCIA FOUNDATION COCCIA FOUNDATION ($4,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MARIO LANZA INSTITUTE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,500 in grants to MARIO LANZA INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MARIO LANZA INSTITUTE?
COCCIA FOUNDATION COCCIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MARIO LANZA INSTITUTE 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 1 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