Washington · Nonprofit
SEATTLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
SEATTLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,095 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($81,652). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $123k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $143k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra does
Mission
Concerts for a wide range of audiences intended to inspire educate and entertain people of all ages. The performances are in venues ranging from schools to Benaroya Hall and cover classical music both modern and traditional
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Concerts for a wide range of audiences intended to inspire educate and entertain people of all ages. The performances are in venues ranging from schools to Benaroya Hall and cover classical music both modern and traditional
$93,147 spentof which $3,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $93,147.
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 $44k to $20k (−55%).
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.
67% of SEATTLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA’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 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $9k → $22k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 SEATTLE PHILHARMONIC 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
SEATTLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 SEATTLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 65% · 2020 89% · 2021 88% · 2022 66% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
90% of SEATTLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA'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 $14k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SEATTLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SEATTLE PHILHARMONIC 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 Washington
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEATTLE PHILHARMONIC 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 SEATTLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA?
- SEATTLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,095 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($81,652). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SEATTLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $143,095 in grants to SEATTLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEATTLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $81,652 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEATTLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 7 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