Virginia · Nonprofit
AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS
AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS (Virginia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $844,899 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC ($318,241). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $955k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $845k
- Net assets
- $458k
What American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras does
Mission
To foster in our youth a life-long love of music that contributes to the quality of all our lives through musical education, development, appreciation, and the creation of quality orchestral and other performance opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Youth orchestral training and community music outreach program: American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras provide a prestigious and transformational set of growth opportunities in classical music performance for young musicians from all backgrounds in the washington, d.c., metropolitan area. Seven orchestras and six ensembles change students' lives through excellence in instruction and instilling excellence in musicianship as well as social responsibility via outreach to the community.
$703,249 spentof which $17,438 as grants$708,627 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $703,249.
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 2021 to 2022, from $769k to $606k (−21%).
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: 2018 11% · 2019 10% · 2020 6% · 2021 20% · 2022 6% · 2023 5% · 2024 5% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Miranda Southwood
Executive director
Board chair
Allan Mustard
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $38k → $124k.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 funders by total. 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
AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
48% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 63% · 2019 33% · 2020 31% · 2021 21% · 2022 34% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
58% of AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
69% of AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $180k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$180k
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 AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS?
- AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS (Virginia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $844,899 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC ($318,241). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $844,899 in grants to AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS?
- ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $318,241 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 19 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