Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA
PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,201 to it, the largest being HARRY C TREXLER ESTATE ($134,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $239k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $204k
- Net assets
- $148k
What Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra does
Mission
To fill the role of the small orchestra and share the experience of music with the general public through both concert and educational outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The orchestra's special purpose is to fulfill the role of the smaller orchestra, through original and imaginative programming at times in collaboration with choral and operatic groups.
$159,437 spent$44,328 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $159,437.
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 2018 to 2019, from $13k to $138k (+953%).
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: 2019 4% · 2020 6% · 2021 13% · 2022 15% · 2023 11% · 2024 12% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Corliss Bachman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $22k → $14k.
From the IRS filings of PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA’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 SINFONIA ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 93% · 2019 93% · 2020 97% · 2021 86% · 2022 85% · 2023 71% — 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 PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
95% of PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA?
- PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,201 to it, the largest being HARRY C TREXLER ESTATE ($134,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $204,201 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA?
- HARRY C TREXLER ESTATE is the largest funder on record, with $134,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA 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 10 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