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PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER SYMPHONY INC

PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER SYMPHONY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $163,559 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($146,537). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$126k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$164k
Net assets
$37k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Pennsylvania Chamber Symphony Inc does

Mission

Music education taught by established artists

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Summer education program for young musicians mentored by established artists

    $83,552 spent
    74% of program spending
  2. Concert and performances

    $29,002 spent
    26% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $112,554.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($71k) Expenses 100 ($79k) Net assets -4 ($-1213)2018 Revenue 91 ($65k) Expenses 85 ($67k) Net assets -11 ($-3201)2019 Revenue 122 ($87k) Expenses 106 ($84k) Net assets -1 ($-391)2020 Revenue 151 ($107k) Expenses 99 ($78k) Net assets 100 ($28k)2021 Revenue 206 ($147k) Expenses 88 ($70k) Net assets 370 ($105k)2022 Revenue 192 ($137k) Expenses 221 ($175k) Net assets 235 ($67k)2023 Revenue 180 ($128k) Expenses 212 ($168k) Net assets 95 ($27k)2024 Revenue 178 ($126k) Expenses 145 ($115k) Net assets 135 ($38k)2025 Revenue 177 ($126k) Expenses 160 ($126k) Net assets 132 ($37k)
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Revenue (177)Expenses (160)Net assets (132)Peer revenue range

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 $28k to $105k (+270%).

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$945
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$28k
$105k
$67k
$32k
$39k
$38k
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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

95% of PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER SYMPHONY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

−$8k
’17
−$2k
’18
$3k
’19
$29k
’20
$77k
’21
−$38k
’22
−$40k
’23
$11k
’24
−$816
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $13k.

Funder
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funders
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2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER SYMPHONY 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

PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER SYMPHONY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

90% 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 PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER SYMPHONY INC.

90%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 77% · 2019 77% · 2020 89% · 2021 84% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

90% of PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER SYMPHONY INC'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 $17k 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. $147k 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

Against its field

PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER SYMPHONY INC's revenue grew 77% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

71%

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 PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER SYMPHONY INC?
PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER SYMPHONY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $163,559 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($146,537). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER SYMPHONY INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $163,559 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER SYMPHONY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER SYMPHONY INC?
ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $146,537 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER SYMPHONY INC 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 3 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