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BREVARD SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA

BREVARD SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,267 to it, the largest being ELEANOR BAIRD KRISTENSEN FDN MA ($18,200). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$96k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$29k
Net assets
$78k
4/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Brevard Symphony Youth Orchestra does

Mission

The mission of the bsyo is to cultivate excellence in young musicians through expanding school-based music education with diverse ensemble experiences, instruction by master teachers and professional teaching artists, and providing premier performance opportunities that enrich our musicians and inspire the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Symphony concerts performed by youth musicians

    $85,397 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $85,397.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($56k) Expenses 100 ($44k) Net assets 100 ($44k)2018 Revenue 100 ($56k) Expenses 129 ($57k) Net assets 97 ($42k)2019 Revenue 120 ($67k) Expenses 105 ($46k) Net assets 144 ($63k)2020 Revenue 107 ($60k) Expenses 135 ($59k) Net assets 144 ($63k)2021 Revenue 107 ($59k) Expenses 152 ($67k) Net assets 127 ($56k)2022 Revenue 126 ($70k) Expenses 160 ($70k) Net assets 127 ($55k)2023 Revenue 142 ($79k) Expenses 135 ($59k) Net assets 171 ($75k)2024 Revenue 169 ($94k) Expenses 203 ($89k) Net assets 182 ($80k)2025 Revenue 172 ($96k) Expenses 221 ($97k) Net assets 178 ($78k)
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Revenue (172)Expenses (221)Net assets (178)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $42k to $63k (+48%).

$44k
$42k
$63k
$63k
$61k
$60k
$75k
$80k
$78k
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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.

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2018
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2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
’17
−$1k
’18
$20k
’19
$172
’20
−$7k
’21
−$146
’22
$19k
’23
$5k
’24
−$2k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $3k → $3k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 BREVARD SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA’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

BREVARD SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

62%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 97% · 2022 83% · 2023 77% — 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.

Where its funders are

97% of BREVARD SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA's grant income comes from Florida funders.

NC
FL

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

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $317 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

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05Profile & governance

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

FL

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BREVARD SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA: 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 BREVARD SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA?
BREVARD SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,267 to it, the largest being ELEANOR BAIRD KRISTENSEN FDN MA ($18,200). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BREVARD SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $29,267 in grants to BREVARD SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BREVARD SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA?
ELEANOR BAIRD KRISTENSEN FDN MA is the largest funder on record, with $18,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BREVARD SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 4 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