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PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF INDIANAPOLIS INCORPORATED
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF INDIANAPOLIS INCORPORATED (Indiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,505 to it, the largest being Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc ($86,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $129k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $267k
- Net assets
- $165k
What Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis Incorporated does
Mission
The Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis is a volunteer orchestra which provides an opportunity for musicians from young adults and up to bring the community of greater Indianapolis timeless music that has spanned generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis performed many concerts during the 2024-2025 season including an annual gospel concert in February, a family concert in October, and other classical concerts in November and May.
$55,663 spent64% of program spendingThe Philharmonic supports the development of youth in the arts through the "Strings and Jazzy Things" music camp program. It is a one-week summer workshop for Indianapolis string, wind, brass, and percussion music students ages 10-15. The 2025 camp was June 16-20 with 73 campers.
$31,830 spent36% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $87,493.
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 2019 to 2020, from $72k to $106k (+48%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Dorothy Ilgen
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $14k → $21k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF INDIANAPOLIS INCORPORATED’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
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF INDIANAPOLIS INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 75%; 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 64% · 2018 60% · 2019 64% · 2020 28% · 2021 30% · 2022 47% · 2023 45% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF INDIANAPOLIS INCORPORATED's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $177 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF INDIANAPOLIS INCORPORATED
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
45%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF INDIANAPOLIS INCORPORATED?
- PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF INDIANAPOLIS INCORPORATED (Indiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,505 to it, the largest being Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc ($86,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF INDIANAPOLIS INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $266,505 in grants to PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF INDIANAPOLIS INCORPORATED, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF INDIANAPOLIS INCORPORATED?
- Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $86,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF INDIANAPOLIS INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 7 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