Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE FIVE LAKES SILVER BAND
THE FIVE LAKES SILVER BAND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,863 to it, the largest being THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($12,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $161k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $51k
What The Five Lakes Silver Band does
Mission
The mission of The Five Lakes Silver Band is to strive for musical excellence in performance, education, and entertainment in the british brass band tradition of contesting; to achieve and maintain the status of a leading brass band world-wide while developing , growing, and enriching the next generation of brass band artists and audiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization sells logo apparel and promotional items such as commemorative event coins to the general public. The merchandise is sold at concerts and is directly related to the organization's exempt purpose through the promotion of the organization's recognition as a leading brass band, as well as general appreciation of brass band performances, entertainment, and contesting. Sales revenue during the tax year totaled $8,608, and the cost of goods sold was $4,620.
$3,988 earned by the programThr organization primarily carries out its mission through world-class brass band performances and competitions throughout the year. The organization's two brass bands performed an aggregate of 16 concerts across several states during the tax year, which included a first place award in the u.s. Open championship and a second place award in the north american championship. The organization's body of work has resulted in an invitation to a future european championship event in september of 2025, as well as the recording of a cd in the subsequent tax year.significant expenses detailed in the functional statement include concert supplies, travel, director fees, music scores, instrumentation, and expenses related to musical events.
$125,838 spent100% of program spendingThe organization conducted a golf outing as a fundraising event, as detailed on schedule g. Gross income from the event was $15,344. Direct expenses were $9,752.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $125,838.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $17k to $51k (+194%).
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: 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of THE FIVE LAKES SILVER BAND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $18 → $6k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 THE FIVE LAKES SILVER BAND’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
THE FIVE LAKES SILVER BAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
99% 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 THE FIVE LAKES SILVER BAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
99% of THE FIVE LAKES SILVER BAND'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 $250 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k 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.
Against its field
THE FIVE LAKES SILVER BAND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 THE FIVE LAKES SILVER BAND
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FIVE LAKES SILVER BAND?
- THE FIVE LAKES SILVER BAND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,863 to it, the largest being THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($12,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE FIVE LAKES SILVER BAND have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $23,863 in grants to THE FIVE LAKES SILVER BAND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FIVE LAKES SILVER BAND?
- THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FIVE LAKES SILVER BAND 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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