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PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND

PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,248,702 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE W RENTSCHLER FOUNDATION ($410,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$792k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$786k
10/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What Piffaro the Renaissance Band does

Mission

To perform historically informed concerts of music from the late medieval, renaissance and early baroque periods in the manner of the professional wind bands that existed between 1450 and 1650. Piffaros entertaining and educational programs reach a world-wide audience through concerts (live and digital), recordings, radio broadcasts, the internet, and youtube.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Piffaro educated and entertained a worldwide audience from concerts in the delaware valley, digital concerts available worldwide, commercial recordings, the internet and youtube, recorder fest as well as radio broadcasts on wwfm, american public medias performance today, and bbc radio.

    $383,690 spent$193,256 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $383,690.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($474k) Expenses 100 ($427k) Net assets 100 ($303k)2018 Revenue 73 ($347k) Expenses 89 ($380k) Net assets 89 ($270k)2019 Revenue 127 ($601k) Expenses 95 ($405k) Net assets 154 ($466k)2020 Revenue 63 ($297k) Expenses 76 ($324k) Net assets 145 ($439k)2021 Revenue 74 ($348k) Expenses 78 ($332k) Net assets 150 ($456k)2022 Revenue 79 ($376k) Expenses 94 ($400k) Net assets 142 ($432k)2023 Revenue 88 ($417k) Expenses 89 ($382k) Net assets 154 ($466k)2024 Revenue 99 ($467k) Expenses 96 ($412k) Net assets 172 ($521k)2025 Revenue 167 ($792k) Expenses 123 ($526k) Net assets 259 ($786k)
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Revenue (167)Expenses (123)Net assets (259)

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 $612k to $870k (+42%).

$337k
$288k
$480k
$476k
$477k
$448k
$495k
$612k
$870k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 9% · 2021 11% · 2022 9% · 2023 6% · 2024 6% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$46k
’17
−$33k
’18
$196k
’19
−$27k
’20
$17k
’21
−$24k
’22
$34k
’23
$55k
’24
$265k
’25
6.0
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.

Chief executive

Shannon Cline

Executive director

Board chair

Melissa Thomson

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed141313161815171412
Joined·+0+0+3+3+1+3+0+0
No longer listed·10014132
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $174k → $109k.

6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND’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

PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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

41% 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 PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND.

33%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 20% · 2019 34% · 2020 47% · 2021 45% · 2022 25% · 2023 27% — 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

42% of PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

99% of PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
CT
MD
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $279k 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.

Federal$20k
grants $20kcontracts $0
17
19
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$20k

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 PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 19%Fundraising 8%

Governance

12
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

62%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND?
PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,248,702 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE W RENTSCHLER FOUNDATION ($410,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,248,702 in grants to PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND?
THE GEORGE W RENTSCHLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $410,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND 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 17 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