New York · Nonprofit
ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC
ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC (New York) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,995,985 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,445,611). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Inc does
Mission
To inspire, engage and enrich our community through music
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The rochester philharmonic orchestra (rpo) has been committed to enriching and inspiring our community through the art of music since its origins in 1922. The rpo presents approximately 150 concerts and broadcasts a year, serving up to 170,000 through ticketed events, education and community engagement activities, and concerts in schools and community centers throughout the region. Rpo music director andreas delfs took on the post in 2021, following notable rpo music directors erich leinsdorf, david zinman, mark elder, and conductor laureate christopher seaman. Principal pops conductor jeff tyzik has earned a national reputation for excellence in pops programming during his tenure with the orchestra.
$10,107,844 spent$3,864,753 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,107,844.
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 2022 to 2023, from $18M to $23M (+28%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2020 13% · 2021 25% · 2022 29% · 2023 3% · 2024 4% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 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. 4 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
Curtis Long
President & CEO
Board chair
Diana Clarkson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $390k → $1.3M.
14 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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: $3.9M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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
ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 15% · 2019 30% · 2020 26% · 2021 29% · 2022 32% · 2023 28% — 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
53% of ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
53% of ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC'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 $4.2M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M 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
ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC's revenue grew 15% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $275k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$275k
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 ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Fund Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC?
- ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC (New York) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,995,985 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,445,611). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $8,995,985 in grants to ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC?
- ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,445,611 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 74 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