California · Nonprofit
BAKERSFIELD YOUTH SYMPHONY
BAKERSFIELD YOUTH SYMPHONY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,858 to it, the largest being BAKERSFIELD WEST ROTARY-STROOPE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($13,858). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $42k
What Bakersfield Youth Symphony does
Mission
The Bakersfield Youth Symphony provides gifted young musicians an opportunity to further their education in orchestra performance. The Bakersfield Youth Symphony also introduces its members to advanced orchestral literature and presents performances for the enjoyment of the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Audition fees - each potential Bakersfield Youth Symphony member must participate in live auditions that are held each fall. The auditions are overseen by judges who are most often adult members of the local symphony orchestra. Those who perform a successful audition as determined by the judges are selected for full membership in the Bakersfield Youth Symphony. During this fiscal year, approximately 136 students auditioned for membership.
$900 spent5% of program spendingConcerts - Bakersfield Youth Symphony members rehearse every monday night from 6:00 to 8:30pm with a professional conductor and various sectional coaches. Rehearsing helps the students to learn to play together as an orchestra. After many rehearsals, the Bakersfield Youth Symphony presents three concerts during the year that are open to the public to attend. The first concert is in the fall (november). The second is in the spring (march or april) and the last concert of the season is in june.
$18,776 spent95% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,676.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $23k to $42k (+80%).
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.
83% of BAKERSFIELD YOUTH SYMPHONY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BAKERSFIELD YOUTH SYMPHONY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of BAKERSFIELD YOUTH SYMPHONY's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
BAKERSFIELD YOUTH SYMPHONY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Organizations like BAKERSFIELD YOUTH SYMPHONY
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In California
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 BAKERSFIELD YOUTH SYMPHONY: 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 BAKERSFIELD YOUTH SYMPHONY?
- BAKERSFIELD YOUTH SYMPHONY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,858 to it, the largest being BAKERSFIELD WEST ROTARY-STROOPE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($13,858). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BAKERSFIELD YOUTH SYMPHONY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $13,858 in grants to BAKERSFIELD YOUTH SYMPHONY.
- Who is the largest funder of BAKERSFIELD YOUTH SYMPHONY?
- BAKERSFIELD WEST ROTARY-STROOPE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,858 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAKERSFIELD YOUTH SYMPHONY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 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