{"id":43350,"date":"2025-11-24T18:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/43350\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T18:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:04:07","slug":"pittsburgh-symphony-posts-2-3-million-surplus-for-fy-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/43350\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Symphony Posts $2.3 Million Surplus for FY 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Thursday\u2019s (11\/20) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2025\/11\/20\/pso-surplus-post-pandemic-sales.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pittsburgh Business Times<\/a>, Jake Dabkowski writes, \u201cThe PSO released its financial results for fiscal year 2025, which runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. In addition to a $2.3 million surplus on its operating budget of $34.6 million, the PSO saw its highest annual ticket sales since the Covid-19 pandemic. Total ticket sales reached $9.48 million, a 17% increase over last fiscal year and is one part of earned revenue, alongside Heinz Hall rentals, which accounts for 23.6% of the PSO\u2019s total revenue. Contributed revenue, in the form of donations, makes up approximately 52.8% of its total revenue with 23.5% from its endowments, according to the organization\u2019s annual impact report\u2026. The impact report also provides a breakdown of the PSO\u2019s expenses. Approximately 78% goes toward \u2018people, programming and Heinz Hall\u2019 while approximately 22% goes towards administrative costs\u2026. PSO President and CEO Melia Tourangeau wrote in the impact report, \u2018Many arts organizations are making tough decisions about their future. However, I view our recent successes as confirmation that our continued investment in our people and programming is the right strategy for the future and for the Pittsburgh communities we serve.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Thursday\u2019s (11\/20) Pittsburgh Business Times, Jake Dabkowski writes, \u201cThe PSO released its financial results for fiscal year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25834,524,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-43350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-business-and-finance","tag-community","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}