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Resonance Works

Resonance Works (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $259,861 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($85,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$232k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$260k
Net assets
$15k
9/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Resonance Works does

Mission

Resonance works is a Pittsburgh-based performing arts non-profit that empowers musicians and inspires audiences with intimate, genre-defying productions featuring everything from opera and musical theatre to orchestral, choral, and chamber music. Through a mix of evocative new works and timeless classics, we challenge traditional assumptions about classical music and invite audiences to connect with the work in fresh and unexpected ways.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Art, people and place resonate together to create memorable experiences. Artist driven programming is our goal. Our artists are creative partners in every way: performers, administrators, board members, volunteers and donors. Whether we perform in coffee shops, warehouses, or concert halls, we create unique experiences for audiences and artist alike. Any compensation paid to board members is for artistic services performed.

    $233,301 spent$36,122 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $233,301.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($111k) Expenses 100 ($114k) Net assets -33 ($-21443)2018 Revenue 118 ($130k) Expenses 121 ($139k) Net assets -46 ($-29687)2019 Revenue 125 ($139k) Expenses 116 ($133k) Net assets -37 ($-23624)2020 Revenue 152 ($169k) Expenses 71 ($81k) Net assets 100 ($64k)2021 Revenue 69 ($76k) Expenses 52 ($60k) Net assets 125 ($80k)2022 Revenue 136 ($151k) Expenses 143 ($164k) Net assets 105 ($68k)2023 Revenue 170 ($189k) Expenses 217 ($248k) Net assets 13 ($8k)2024 Revenue 202 ($223k) Expenses 185 ($212k) Net assets 31 ($20k)2025 Revenue 210 ($232k) Expenses 207 ($237k) Net assets 24 ($15k)
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Revenue (210)Expenses (207)Net assets (24)Peer revenue range

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 $27k to $101k (+277%).

$11k
$3k
$27k
$101k
$94k
$81k
$22k
$38k
$15k
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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

84% of Resonance Works’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4k
’17
−$8k
’18
$6k
’19
$88k
’20
$16k
’21
−$13k
’22
−$59k
’23
$12k
’24
−$5k
’25
0.7
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.

20242025
Listed1210
Joined·+0
No longer listed·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $9k → $53k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Resonance Works’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

Resonance Works leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

28% 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 Resonance Works.

33%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 94% · 2019 68% · 2020 50% · 2021 97% · 2022 49% · 2023 38% — 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

50% of Resonance Works's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

98% of Resonance Works's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
RI
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. $72k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Resonance Works has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Resonance Works

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

56%

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 Resonance Works?
Resonance Works (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $259,861 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($85,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Resonance Works have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $259,861 in grants to Resonance Works, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Resonance Works?
THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Resonance Works 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 11 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