Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
POCONO MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL
POCONO MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,390 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($98,800). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $238k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $173k
- Net assets
- $101k
What Pocono Mountains Music Festival does
Mission
The mission of the Pocono Mountains Music Festival (the "festival") together with its performing arts camp is to engage world class talent from all musical genres to entertain, enrich, and educate. The festival was founded in 2009 as the buck hill skytop music festival to offer musical and educational programming as a unique cultural resource for the northeast pennsylvania region. It showcases seasoned professional and up-and-coming performers in various disciplines including cabaret, jazz, dance, chamber music, pop, country, and musical theatre. The intimate performance venues allow audiences unparalleled access to world renowned musicians. The festival's tuition-free performing arts camp experience (the "camp") and other educational programs offer local students the opportunity to study and perform with music and theater professionals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Festival performances: in late july, the festival presents numerous musical events for which tickets are sold. This year, our five events included the sounds of cabaret & broadway, jazz, pop, opera, and our 15th anniversary roaring 20s speakeasy fundraiser
$126,325 spent$40,813 earned by the program58% of program spendingPerforming arts camp: the festival includes a 2-week tuition-free performing arts camp (the "camp) for high school students and is held concurrently in late july with the festival. The highlight of every season is our camp showcase (the "showcase) on the closing saturday of the festival, when student artists demonstrate the full range of skills they learned during the two weeks of camp. The festival's artistic director, scott coulter, is a nationally renowned emmy-nominated performer with his own production company. Mr. Coulter and his team of instructors have a proven formula for success with the camp, which many of our student artists have attested to as "life changing".
$64,774 spent30% of program spendingHoliday show: in december, the festival, in partnership with the historic sherman theater in stroudsburg, pa, presents its annual holiday concert. This featured holiday songs sung by broadway professionals and, most importantly, student artists recruited from 8 area high schools accompanied by the pocono pops!, which is a 26-piece orchestra of musicians living in the pocono region. It is open to the public for a nominal admission fee.
$25,115 spent$3,183 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $216,214.
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 2024 to 2025, from $98k to $166k (+70%).
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 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 4% · 2020 7% · 2021 18% · 2022 17% · 2023 14% · 2024 6% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of POCONO MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $15k → $23k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 POCONO MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL’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
POCONO MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 POCONO MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 41% · 2023 91% — 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
50% of POCONO MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
85% of POCONO MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
POCONO MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 POCONO MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL: 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 POCONO MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL?
- POCONO MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,390 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($98,800). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does POCONO MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $173,390 in grants to POCONO MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POCONO MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $98,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POCONO MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL 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 9 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