Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE PRIMAVERA FUND
THE PRIMAVERA FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $655,704 to it, the largest being NORMAN HOLLAND-HULL INSTRUMENT LIBR ($517,673). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $515k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $656k
- Net assets
- $48k
What The Primavera Fund does
Mission
The Primavera Fund (the "fund") provides funding and mentoring to young musicians in elementary through high school, in the greater philadelphia area who lack the financial wherewithal to engage in high quality music education. The fund supports all aspects of music education, including private lesson, youth orchestra, chamber music, music theory, and summer music camps.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Each primavera artist is expected to participate in several aspects of early musical education. All students take weekly private lessons from a qualified instructor, sometimes that is an independent teacher (contractor) and sometimes that will be with a teacher at a music school to which we pay tuition. Students also participate in large and small music ensemble activities and there are many local youth orchestra, chamber music and chamber orchestra opportunities which we subsidize for our students. To supplement their musical education some students also advance in composition and theory, sometimes with a private instructor and sometimes at a school. Students also participate in music education programs during the summer months, usually a camp or festival. Costs for these are usually tuition and fees, as well as travel related expenses. In addition to underwriting the above student experiences, The Primavera Fund also offers group and individual support in the areas of instrumental advancement, career readiness, as well as college preparedness and selection processes. Students also take advantage of seminars and clinics by invited practitioners, some of which are geared toward…
$477,391 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $477,391.
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 $18k to $66k (+264%).
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: 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE PRIMAVERA FUND’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. 1 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Dorothy Mann
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $38k → $224k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 PRIMAVERA FUND’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 PRIMAVERA FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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: 2022 29% · 2023 89% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE PRIMAVERA FUND's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k 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
THE PRIMAVERA FUND's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE PRIMAVERA FUND
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PRIMAVERA FUND: 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 THE PRIMAVERA FUND?
- THE PRIMAVERA FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $655,704 to it, the largest being NORMAN HOLLAND-HULL INSTRUMENT LIBR ($517,673). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PRIMAVERA FUND have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $655,704 in grants to THE PRIMAVERA FUND, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PRIMAVERA FUND?
- NORMAN HOLLAND-HULL INSTRUMENT LIBR is the largest funder on record, with $517,673 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PRIMAVERA FUND 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 8 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