New York · Nonprofit
ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC
ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC (New York) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,314,896 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($1,208,500). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Inc does
Mission
See schedule oorpheus chamber orchestra creates extraordinary musical experiences that enrich lives and empower individuals through collaboration, education, innovation, and a passion for artistic excellence. Orpheus strives to be the world's premier chamber orchestra by performing music at the highest level, challenging artistic boundaries, inspiring the public to think and work with new perspectives, and building a broad and active audience in new york city and around the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See schedule ofor over 50 years, orpheus has served a loyal and generous audience in its hometown of new york city, presenting its annual concert series at carnegie hall. During orpheus' 2024-2025 season, orpheus presented three carnegie hall concerts, collaborating with guest soloists: pianist, garrick ohlsson; guitarist, pablo sainz villegas; and violinist, anne akiko meyers. The series included three new york premieres including newly commissioned works by billy childs, jorge amado, and eric whitacre; and new orchestrations by michael stephen brown, sahun sam hong, and orpheus member violist dov scheindlin. In addition, orpheus was presented for two concerts at carnegie hall with violinist, maxim vengerov and one concert at the 92ny with violinist, noah bendix balgley featuring new orchestrations by zachary wadsworth and dov scheindlin. Also, orpheus was presented in a chamber music concert at the museum of arts and design featuring a collaboration with guitar and cello duo, boyd meets girl.orpheus is committed to sharing its artistic programming with communities beyond new york city. In 2024-2025, orpheus toured within new york state and to new jersey, pennsylvania,…
$1,712,354 spent$592,191 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,712,354.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.9M to $2.7M (+40%).
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 4% · 2018 5% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 41% · 2022 32% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC’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. 4 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
Alexander Scheirle
Executive director
Board chair
Kim Bleimann
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $267k → $1.4M.
12 of 63 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 ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
27% 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 ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 40% · 2019 49% · 2020 33% · 2021 40% · 2022 20% · 2023 43% — growing more concentrated.
“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
29% of ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
78% of ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$300k
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 ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC?
- ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC (New York) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,314,896 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC ($1,208,500). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $5,314,896 in grants to ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC?
- THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,208,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 63 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing