Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC
VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC (Vermont) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,630 to it, the largest being Lamson Howell Foundation Inc ($27,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $65k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $77k
What Vermont Philharmonic Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the Vermont Philharmonic, Inc is to provide the very best live, symphonic music concerts within our means and abilities to as wide an area of Vermont audiences as feasible, to promote the appreciation of good symphonic and chamber music among the students of our area through special concerts, to afford the opportunity to qualified student and adult area musicians to perform the symphonic literature; to assist our orchestra musicians in developing their musical talents. Adults 20, Senior 15 Student ticket price is 5.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
VERMONT PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA - LIST OF WORKS - 2024-2025 SEASON FALL CONCERTS 2024 - Gems of Opera and Song Highland Center for the Arts (Greensboro, VT) and Barre Opera House (Barre VT) Conducted by Lou Kosma Music Program: Overture to Treemonisha (1910) by Scott Joplin Bamboula, Op. 2 (18??) by Louis Moreau Gottschalk The Bamboula (Rhapsodic Dance No. 1), Opus 75 (1910) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Prelude from Cavalleria rusticana (1888) Pietro Mascagni Andrea Chénier (c.1900) Umberto Giordano General public audience and students - Highland Center unreported and Barre Opera House 119 MESSIAH CONCERTS 2024 St. Augustine Church (Montpelier, VT) and Barre Opera House (Barre VT) Conducted by Assistant Conductor Lisa Jablow Featured soloists - Lillian Broderick (soprano), Lori Marino (alto), Michael Halloran (tenor) and Erik Kroncke (bass) The concert of George Handel's "Messiah" featured the orchestra, soloists and area choristers General public audience and students - St. Augustine 190 and Barre Opera House 288 WINTER CONCERT 2025 (cancelled due to weather, moved to Family Concert slot March 9th) Barre Opera House (Barre, VT) Conducted by Lou Kosma Featured soloist: Sophia Lu, piano…
$0 spentof which $850 as grants
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2023 to 2024, from $65k to $74k (+14%).
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.
56% of VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $3k.
1 of 5 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 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC’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
VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 94% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 95% · 2022 98% · 2023 93% — 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
100% of VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205 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.
Against its field
VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8k on record.
- Grants$7k
- Other Purchased Services$1k
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 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC 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 Vermont
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC: 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 VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC?
- VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC (Vermont) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,630 to it, the largest being Lamson Howell Foundation Inc ($27,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $35,630 in grants to VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC?
- Lamson Howell Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $27,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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