Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH CHORAL ENSEMBLES
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH CHORAL ENSEMBLES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $508,167 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($125,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $508k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Philadelphia Youth Choral Ensembles does
Mission
To inspire young singers through music education and world-class performances.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization's main purpose is to provide exceptional musical training and performance opportunities for youth who have demonstrated vocal talent and a commitment to excellence. Through our programs and performances we instill confidence, build character, and foster artistic excellence in talented youth. Our international tours offer the choir members invaluable experiences and exposure as well as promotes our choirs as ambassadors of philadelphia and choral arts.
$2,329,041 spentof which $107,339 as grants$2,316,402 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,329,041.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.7M to $1.8M (+8%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 6% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Michelle Frank
Executive director
Board chair
Marlene Bollar
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $17k → $46k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 PHILADELPHIA YOUTH CHORAL ENSEMBLES’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
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH CHORAL ENSEMBLES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
53% 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 PHILADELPHIA YOUTH CHORAL ENSEMBLES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 36% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 59% · 2022 88% · 2023 33% — 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
33% of PHILADELPHIA YOUTH CHORAL ENSEMBLES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
79% of PHILADELPHIA YOUTH CHORAL ENSEMBLES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $183k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like PHILADELPHIA YOUTH CHORAL ENSEMBLES
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
82% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PHILADELPHIA YOUTH CHORAL ENSEMBLES: 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 PHILADELPHIA YOUTH CHORAL ENSEMBLES?
- PHILADELPHIA YOUTH CHORAL ENSEMBLES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $508,167 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($125,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHILADELPHIA YOUTH CHORAL ENSEMBLES have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $508,167 in grants to PHILADELPHIA YOUTH CHORAL ENSEMBLES, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILADELPHIA YOUTH CHORAL ENSEMBLES?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILADELPHIA YOUTH CHORAL ENSEMBLES 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 23 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