Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
READING POPS ORCHESTRA
READING POPS ORCHESTRA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,407 to it, the largest being READING MUSICAL FOUNDATION ($85,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $90k
- Net assets
- $99k
What Reading Pops Orchestra does
Mission
To promote music and the arts in Reading and Berks County through the maintenance the musical arts in Reading and Berks County
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Support the local ballet school annual presentation of the Nutcracker. Ballet performances are a combination of children, adults and professional dancer that provides valuable experience for the children and adult amateurs and a show case for professional dancers at Kutztown University
$13,506 spentof which $15,000 as grants43% of program spendingConcert was a memorial concert to honor a local professional actor/ vocalist that had recently died. A professional actor/vocalist from New York performed with the Reading Pops Orchestra to provide a public concert at the Miller Center of his well know performances to honor his memory.
$11,235 spentof which $10,925 as grants36% of program spendingA "side by side concert" of Berks county high school music students and the Reading Pops Orchestra . This function provides students the opportunity to play along side the Reading Pops Orchestra musicians for a rehearsal and a concert. After the rehearsal with the full orchestra, the various section move to different locations to rehearse individual section music. Various techniques of playing the respective instruments as well as the music for the concert with the student. We them provided some pizza and refreshments for the students and musicians prior to performing the concert in their auditorium for the public.
$6,867 spentof which $6,877 as grants22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,608.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $81k to $89k (+10%).
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.
28% of READING POPS ORCHESTRA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $10k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 READING POPS ORCHESTRA’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
READING POPS ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 READING POPS ORCHESTRA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 95% · 2019 95% · 2020 99% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of READING POPS 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. $507 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.
Against its field
READING POPS ORCHESTRA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like READING POPS ORCHESTRA
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.
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 READING POPS 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds READING POPS ORCHESTRA?
- READING POPS ORCHESTRA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,407 to it, the largest being READING MUSICAL FOUNDATION ($85,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does READING POPS ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $90,407 in grants to READING POPS ORCHESTRA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of READING POPS ORCHESTRA?
- READING MUSICAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like READING POPS 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.
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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 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 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