New Jersey · Nonprofit
THE NEW BRUNSWICK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
THE NEW BRUNSWICK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,068 to it, the largest being FRANK AND LYDIA BERGEN FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $51k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $17k
What The New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra does
Mission
High quality professional chamber-music concerts.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra (NBCO) season consisted of a Salon concert series and two major performances. The Salon series on The Revolutionary War in New Jersey through words and music ran five performances. It also featured a world premier by New Jersey composer, David Rimelis "The Times That Try Our Souls" performed in collaboration with the New Jersey Composers Guild. We held two full concerts, a Winter Concert, "Sounds Of The Season," which included collaboration with four local choirs, and the spring concert, "For Love of the New World," featuring Antonin Dvorak's Symphony "From the New World." Both concerts were held at Rutgers University Nicholas Auditorium. An educational component is always included during the performances providing details on the composer, the history, and the unique features of the composition presented by our artistic director. Some of the pieces of our salons and the concerts have been presented by radio broadcast and in digital format on YouTube. Our in-person performances served over 800 participants, and the digital performances allowed us to expand our outreach over social media.
$37,119 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,119.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $3k to $17k (+401%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $17.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 NEW BRUNSWICK CHAMBER 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
THE NEW BRUNSWICK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
THE NEW BRUNSWICK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE NEW BRUNSWICK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA?
- THE NEW BRUNSWICK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,068 to it, the largest being FRANK AND LYDIA BERGEN FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE NEW BRUNSWICK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,068 in grants to THE NEW BRUNSWICK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NEW BRUNSWICK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA?
- FRANK AND LYDIA BERGEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NEW BRUNSWICK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 2 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