Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,299,777 to it, the largest being THE WALTER R GARRISON FOUNDATION ($1,511,298). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The University of the Artsshared funderslocal
- American Symphony Orchestra League D/B/A League of American Orchestrasportfolio match
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Associationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 5% · 2022 6% · 2023 2% · 2024 4% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $54k → $245k.
7 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 ORCHESTRA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. 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 ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 44% · 2019 45% · 2020 25% · 2021 23% · 2022 27% · 2023 27% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
93% of PHILADELPHIA YOUTH 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. $192k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 53 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The University of the Artsshared funderslocalPA · backs 65 organizations that share your funders · funds 105 organizations near you
- American Symphony Orchestra League D/B/A League of American Orchestrasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Carnegie Hall Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Musical Fund Society of Philadelphiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bruckner Society of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewis Prize Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E Nakamichi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
- Foundation for Health Equityshared fundersPA · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
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 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA?
- PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,299,777 to it, the largest being THE WALTER R GARRISON FOUNDATION ($1,511,298). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $3,299,777 in grants to PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA?
- THE WALTER R GARRISON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,511,298 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILADELPHIA YOUTH 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.
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 53funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing