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PA CENTRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY

PA CENTRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,381 to it, the largest being CENTRE FOUNDATION INC ($129,350). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$118k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$241k
Net assets
$32k
5/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What Pa Centre Chamber Orchestra Society does

Mission

To provide the central pennsylvania region with professional chamber orchestra concerts and to develop an awareness and appreciation of classical chamber orchestral music.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The pco provided 3 season concerts, 1 holiday concert, 1 family-oriented concert and 1 concert of chamber music to over 1400 audience members in central pennsylvania. We traveled to perform in surrounding communities to reach an even larger audience.

    $87,821 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $87,821.

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 ($107k) Expenses 100 ($116k) Net assets 100 ($16k)2018 Revenue 116 ($125k) Expenses 106 ($123k) Net assets 110 ($17k)2019 Revenue 115 ($123k) Expenses 112 ($130k) Net assets 70 ($11k)2020 Revenue 88 ($94k) Expenses 76 ($88k) Net assets 118 ($19k)2021 Revenue 58 ($62k) Expenses 33 ($39k) Net assets 280 ($44k)2022 Revenue 118 ($126k) Expenses 95 ($110k) Net assets 379 ($60k)2023 Revenue 103 ($110k) Expenses 111 ($129k) Net assets 273 ($43k)2024 Revenue 113 ($121k) Expenses 107 ($123k) Net assets 273 ($43k)2025 Revenue 110 ($118k) Expenses 113 ($131k) Net assets 201 ($32k)
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Revenue (110)Expenses (113)Net assets (201)

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 $26k to $44k (+73%).

$19k
$20k
$18k
$26k
$44k
$60k
$43k
$44k
$32k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Surplus & reserves

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

−$9k
’17
$2k
’18
−$7k
’19
$6k
’20
$23k
’21
$16k
’22
−$18k
’23
−$2k
’24
−$13k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $14k → $26k.

Funder
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funders
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4
4
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1

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 PA CENTRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY’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

PA CENTRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

67% 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 PA CENTRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY.

54%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 41% · 2019 37% · 2020 63% · 2021 57% · 2022 60% · 2023 58% — 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.

Where its funders are

54% of PA CENTRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $112k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

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

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like PA CENTRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds PA CENTRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY?
PA CENTRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,381 to it, the largest being CENTRE FOUNDATION INC ($129,350). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PA CENTRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $241,381 in grants to PA CENTRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PA CENTRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY?
CENTRE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $129,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PA CENTRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY 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 5 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