Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 163 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,708,577 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($9,001,600). 117 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $55M
- Funders on record
- 163
- Grants received
- $45M
- Net assets
- $164M
What Pittsburgh Symphony Inc does
Mission
It is the mission of the pittsburgh symphony orchestra to engage, enrich, and inspire through unparalleled live musical experiences.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The pittsburgh symphony orchestra, which celebrated 125 years of music in 2021, possesses a rich history of the world's finest conductors and musicians and an unwavering commitment to the pittsburgh region and its citizens. Since 2008, the orchestra has been led by music director manfred honeck, one of the world's leading conductors, admired for his revelatory interpretations. Past music directors have included legendary conductors such as andre previn, lorin maazel and william steinberg. See continuation on schedule o.the pittsburgh symphony has a long, illustrious history of broadcasts and recordings, which includes two grammy awards in 2018 and a grammy award in 2025. With a long and distinguished history of domestic and foreign tours dating back to 1900, psi continues to be critically acclaimed as one of the world's greatest orchestras. From its home at heinz hall, the orchestra typically performs 20 weekends of bny mellon grand classics, seven weekends of pnc pops, five fiddlesticks family concerts, specials with orchestra and guest artists, and countless educational, children's, and community outreach programs that impact more than 300,000 people each year.
$38,215,101 spent$11,494,914 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $38,215,101.
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 2020 to 2021, from $161M to $194M (+21%).
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 10% · 2018 7% · 2019 11% · 2020 9% · 2021 49% · 2022 25% · 2023 14% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Melia Tourangeau
President & CEO
Board chair
Anthony Bucci
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 89 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $5.8M.
15 of 163 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Pittsburgh Symphony Endowment); $3k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Bechtolt Private Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 163 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
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
30% 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 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 18% · 2019 76% · 2020 44% · 2021 31% · 2022 39% · 2023 30% — 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
62% of PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
97% of PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $290k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$290k
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 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Pittsburgh Symphony Endowment · exempt
- The Dietrich Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: 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 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC?
- PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 163 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,708,577 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($9,001,600). 117 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC have?
- IRS filings report 163 organizations giving $44,708,577 in grants to PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC, 117 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC?
- THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS is the largest funder on record, with $9,001,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 163 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