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PENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC

PENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,500 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($110,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$201k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$276k
Net assets
$0
8/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Pennsylvania Philharmonic does

Mission

Musical concerts held at schools to educate the children in music

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.

  1. Live music education for schools

  2. Virtual music education for schools

  3. Live public accessible concerts

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($151k) Expenses 100 ($162k)2023 Revenue 136 ($205k) Expenses 125 ($203k)2025 Revenue 133 ($201k) Expenses 116 ($188k)
202220232025
Revenue (133)Expenses (116)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.

$0
$0
$0
202220232025
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.

2022
2023
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

80% of PENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$11k
’22
$1k
’23
$13k
’25
0.3
months of
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.

Board chair

Ann Lampe

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202220232025
Listed435
Joined·+1·
No longer listed·2·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $56k → $24k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 PHILHARMONIC’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 PHILHARMONIC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

59% 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 PHILHARMONIC.

40%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 31% · 2022 62% · 2023 31% — 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

0% of PENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

57% of PENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC'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 $118k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states.

VT
MN
PA
MO
DE

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

’17
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $158k 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 PHILHARMONIC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

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

Organizations like PENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 37%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

60%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds PENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC?
PENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,500 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($110,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $275,500 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 13 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