Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks Co
Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks Co (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,614 to it, the largest being THE PRESSER FOUNDATION ($28,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $459k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $82k
What Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks Co does
Mission
YOBC offers participants large ensembles, chamber groups, master classes, our Students-In-Concert outreach program. The focus is on superior classical music education while challenging students to achieve excellence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
YOBC conducted an educational European tour, taking approximately 45 students to Austria and Germany where they prresented 4 performances and toured a variety of cultural and historical sites.
$224,417 spent57% of program spendingYOBC Ensemble concerts with approximately 190 students performing. YOBC holds 3 concerts each November and again in the spring with each of the 8 main ensembles pefroming in a public concert hall. Rehearsals are held working toward these concerts with each ability group playing music appropriate for it to excel at its own level. Included in these concerts are soloist competition winners performing with orchestral or wind symphonies.
$142,385 spent36% of program spendingScholarship for Bucks County Community College Music Students. YOBC funds scholarships for music students at Bucks College who receive tuition based on academic achievement and financial need.
$12,500 spent3% of program spendingStudents-In-Concert outreach program. Forty-five participants in music education reap the proven academic and social benefits associated with the serious study of classical music, among them being confidence, a sense of community, commitment and teamwork. The programs are conducted in conjunction with school districts in Bucks County, PA.
$12,071 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $391,373.
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 2024 to 2025, from $340k to $187k (−45%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks Co’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. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $4k → $5k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks Co’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
Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks Co leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 96% · 2021 68% · 2022 97% · 2023 97% — 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
93% of Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks Co's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $716 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.
Against its field
Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks Co has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks Co
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks Co: 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 Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks Co?
- Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks Co (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,614 to it, the largest being THE PRESSER FOUNDATION ($28,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks Co have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $31,614 in grants to Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks Co, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks Co?
- THE PRESSER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $28,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks Co find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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