Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM
DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,364,778 to it, the largest being The Cheng Family Charitable Trust ($491,215). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What DC Youth Orchestra Program does
Mission
The mission of the DC Youth Orchestra Program dcyop is to empower young people to transform their lives through music and community. Dcyop has fostered the musical, academic, and social development of more than 60,000 youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Education and training dcyop is the only prek-12 program in the washington, dc area that makes high-quality ensemble music education available to all students, regardless of background, socioeconomic status, or ability. Each year, more than 650 students ages 4.5 to 18 study with dcyop and present public concerts at venues across washington, dc. Through its citywide program, dcyop offers group lessons on all orchestral instruments, nine large ensembles, chamber music, and composition and music theory classes. Through its school partnerships, dcyop provides tuition-free after-school music education programming at title I dc public and public charter schools. Our comprehensive curriculum, tuition assistance, scholarships, and instrument loaner program all enable dcyop to be a truly inclusive organization that accepts any child with the desire to learn.
$1,797,086 spentof which $105,161 as grants$558,916 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,797,086.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.0M to $1.3M (+27%).
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 26% · 2018 9% · 2019 6% · 2020 9% · 2021 24% · 2022 19% · 2023 24% · 2024 17% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% 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.
Chief executive
Loretta Thompson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $79k → $659k.
10 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
39% 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 DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 33% · 2019 38% · 2020 33% · 2021 15% · 2022 15% · 2023 23% — 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
50% of DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM'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
DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $818k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 26 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $140k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$140k
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 DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM?
- DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,364,778 to it, the largest being The Cheng Family Charitable Trust ($491,215). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $3,364,778 in grants to DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM?
- The Cheng Family Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $491,215 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 53 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing