Rhode Island · Nonprofit
RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL
RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL (Rhode Island) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,905,711 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($4,587,494). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School does
Mission
As the only professional orchestra and certified community music school in the state, the ri phil enriches and transforms our region through symphonic performances and music education programs accessible to all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program highlights for 2024-25: we continue to be the largest combined professional orchestra and community music school in the nation. The orchestra's taco classical and amica rush hour series featured world-class guest artists, diverse repertoire, and highlighted a different conductor for each concert as we anticipate music director ruth reinhardt's 1st season in 2025-2026. A series of popular artist and highly attended summer pops concerts extended our reach beyond the classical stage. In person link up education concerts returned, and the program reached over 10,000 students in 90 partner school in 35 districts.
$2,655,744 spent$1,171,646 earned by the program50% of program spendingThe ri philharmonic music school continued to reach students and serve our region's communities through tuition-based and community partnership programs taught by outstanding faculty, including orchestra members. With accessibility as a corner-stone, partnership programs like link-up, victoria's dream project, and our tution-based financial aid program provided over $1 million in free and highly subsidized instruction to tens-of-thousands of students across the region. Our carter center for music education & performance continued to serve as a hub for community-based music activity, hosting partner institutions like the providence singers, american band, ri music educators association, girls rock ri, the autism project and others.
$2,695,054 spentof which $236,868 as grants$1,577,847 earned by the program50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,350,798.
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 $14M to $16M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 16% · 2022 32% · 2023 22% · 2024 8% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL’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. 6 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.
Chief executive
David Beauchesne
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $143k → $1.7M.
12 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 26% · 2019 57% · 2020 33% · 2021 36% · 2022 53% · 2023 52% — 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
59% of RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
51% of RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL'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 $5.4M that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Rhode Island funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M 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
RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL
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In Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL?
- RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL (Rhode Island) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,905,711 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($4,587,494). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $10,905,711 in grants to RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,587,494 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 48 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