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ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC

ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,360,357 to it, the largest being Steve and Diane Parrish Foundation ($806,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.8M
Revenue FY2025
37
Funders on record
$2.4M
Grants received
$2.9M
Net assets
29/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%

Against its field

ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−34% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve12.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 113 ($1.5M) Expenses 102 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 113 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 105 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 110 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 106 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 368 ($4.8M) Expenses 99 ($1.4M) Net assets 408 ($4.8M)2022 Revenue 159 ($2.1M) Expenses 136 ($2.0M) Net assets 356 ($4.2M)2023 Revenue 134 ($1.8M) Expenses 155 ($2.2M) Net assets 323 ($3.8M)2024 Revenue 127 ($1.7M) Expenses 159 ($2.3M) Net assets 289 ($3.4M)2025 Revenue 135 ($1.8M) Expenses 166 ($2.4M) Net assets 248 ($2.9M)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (166)Net assets (248)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 8% · 2022 55% · 2023 23% · 2024 9% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

68% of ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$128k
17
$5k
18
$42k
19
$6k
20
$3.4M
21
$133k
22
$471k
23
$635k
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$612k
25
13
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $120k → $514k.

13 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)25% 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 ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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

ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

36% 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 ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC.

34%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 45% · 2019 58% · 2020 43% · 2021 37% · 2022 30% · 2023 29%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

50% of ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 6 states in all.

NY
PA
CT
DE
NC
FL

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

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $597k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 37 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $594k on record — $55k federal, $539k state.

Federal$55k
grants $55kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$55k
State$539k
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Top programs
  • State Aid Grants$332k
  • Pass thru Grant Non-State$207k

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 ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Connecticut

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 12%Fundraising 5%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ORCHESTRA LUMOS 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC?
ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,360,357 to it, the largest being Steve and Diane Parrish Foundation ($806,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,360,357 in grants to ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC?
Steve and Diane Parrish Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $806,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 37funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing