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Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

EIN 16-0755739Arts, Culture, Humanities New York Mid-sized

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Providing live performances of symphonic music

The Grammy Award Winning Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1935 and makes its home at Kleinhans Music Hall, a National Historic Landmark with an international reputation as one of the finest concert halls in the United States. As Buffalo's cultural ambassador, the BPO has toured widely across the United States and Canada including the recently completed Florida Friends Tour with JoAnn Falletta in March 2010. Currently, the Orchestra presents more than one hundred and twenty Classics, Pops and Youth Concerts each year and the BPO Education department programs reach over 35,000 students per year (K-12) from all eight counties of Western New York. During the tenure of current music director JoAnn Falletta, the BPO has rekindled its distinguished history of national broadcasts on American Public Media's Performance Today and recordings, including the release of eleven new CDs of a highly diverse repertoire on the NAXOS and Beau Fleuve labels.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

75.15Overall score
out of 100

76.36Financial score
out of 100

74.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$11,855,704

Total expenses · USD$11,854,256

Program expenses

$9,839,032.48 recorded amount

83.0%

Fundraising expenses

$900,923.46 recorded amount

7.6%

Administrative expenses

$1,090,591.55 recorded amount

9.2%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.11 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Daniel Hart
Recorded compensation: $255,591.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 2.15%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	74.0
`category` Category	Arts, Culture, Humanities
`description` Mission & description	The Grammy Award Winning Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1935 and makes its home at Kleinhans Music Hall, a National Historic Landmark with an international reputation as one of the finest concert halls in the United States. As Buffalo's cultural ambassador, the BPO has toured widely across the United States and Canada including the recently completed Florida Friends Tour with JoAnn Falletta in March 2010. Currently, the Orchestra presents more than one hundred and twenty Classics, Pops and Youth Concerts each year and the BPO Education department programs reach over 35,000 students per year (K-12) from all eight counties of Western New York. During the tenure of current music director JoAnn Falletta, the BPO has rekindled its distinguished history of national broadcasts on American Public Media's Performance Today and recordings, including the release of eleven new CDs of a highly diverse repertoire on the NAXOS and Beau Fleuve labels.
`ein` EIN	16-0755739
`tot_exp` Total expenses	11854256.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.092
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.11
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.076
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.83
`fscore` Financial score	76.36
`leader` Recorded leader	Daniel Hart
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	255591.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0215
`motto` Tagline	Providing live performances of symphonic music
`name` Charity name	Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
`tot_rev` Total revenue	11855704.0
`score` Overall score	75.15
`state` State code	NY
`subcategory` Subcategory	Performing Arts
`size` Source size label	mid
`program_exp` Program expenses	9839032.48
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	900923.456
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	1090591.552

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 16-0755739
Source category: Arts, Culture, Humanities
Source subcategory: Performing Arts
Recorded location: New York (NY)
Expense-based size: Mid-sized
$3.5M–$13.5M in total expenses · source label: mid

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.