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ATHENS YOUTH SYMPHONY INC

ATHENS YOUTH SYMPHONY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,000 to it, the largest being NORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($14,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$56
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$24k
Net assets
$11k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Athens Youth Symphony Inc does

Mission

The mission of athens youth symphony, inc. Is to provide the finest quality orchestral training and performance opportunities to promising students in the northeast region of georgia.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Athens yourn symphony, inc. Provided appromately 80 middle and high school students from across northeast georgia the opportunity to participate in a superior youth orchestra and perform concerts twice a year in a world-class symphonic setting.

    $1,301 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,301.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($32k) Expenses 100 ($40k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2018 Revenue 153 ($49k) Expenses 103 ($41k) Net assets 216 ($14k)2020 Revenue 174 ($55k) Expenses 107 ($43k) Net assets 363 ($24k)2021 Revenue 37 ($12k) Expenses 41 ($16k) Net assets 308 ($20k)2022 Revenue 54 ($17k) Expenses 78 ($31k) Net assets 98 ($6k)2023 Revenue 116 ($37k) Expenses 82 ($33k) Net assets 164 ($11k)2024 Revenue 13 ($4k) Expenses 7 ($3k) Net assets 184 ($12k)2025 Revenue 0 ($56) Expenses 4 ($2k) Net assets 161 ($11k)
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Revenue (0)Expenses (4)Net assets (161)Peer revenue range

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 $21k to $7k (−65%).

$10k
$19k
$31k
$21k
$7k
$12k
$13k
$11k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

89% of ATHENS YOUTH SYMPHONY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’17
$8k
’18
$13k
’20
−$4k
’21
−$14k
’22
$4k
’23
$1k
’24
−$2k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 ATHENS YOUTH SYMPHONY 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

ATHENS YOUTH SYMPHONY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

58% 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 ATHENS YOUTH SYMPHONY INC.

58%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — 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

58% of ATHENS YOUTH SYMPHONY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 1 state.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ATHENS YOUTH SYMPHONY INC's revenue fell 100% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−2725% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−55% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds ATHENS YOUTH SYMPHONY INC?
ATHENS YOUTH SYMPHONY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,000 to it, the largest being NORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($14,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ATHENS YOUTH SYMPHONY INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $24,000 in grants to ATHENS YOUTH SYMPHONY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ATHENS YOUTH SYMPHONY INC?
NORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $14,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ATHENS YOUTH SYMPHONY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2 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