California · Nonprofit
EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY
EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $308,788 to it, the largest being THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION ($50,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $309k
- Net assets
- $59k
What East County Youth Symphony does
Mission
East County Youth Symphony's mission is to provide free, high quality orchestral education and performance opportunities to young musicians, and share the spirit of classical music with new audiences of adults and children.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Pre-Orchestra Division students are children ages 7 to 14. All of them are enrolled in string ensembles where they study orchestra repertoire. Every Pre-Orchestra Division student is required to attend Music Theory class. We also offer Solfeggio, collaborative piano and music software classes to those who is interested. These additional classes are electives.
$48,000 spent49% of program spendingECYS Advanced Orchestra consists of high school and college orchestra players. This group performs professional repertoire such as L. van Beethoven's Symphonies No.1,3,5,7, J. Brahms's Symphony No.3, Rachmaninoff's Symphony No.2, C Frank's Symphony in D, etc. This orchestra is designed to introduce advanced and pre-professional level players to the professional environment. We have mentors, who are experienced, high class professionals tutoring every orchestra section before the concerts. These seasoned musicians also perform with students. Usually we have 11 or 12 of htem to mentor and help kids to learn their difficult parts. This model is working very well for those who are just starting their professional career in classical music.
$42,000 spent43% of program spendingWe also offer additional classes such as Sibelius (professional music notation program), Cakewalk (former Sonar, a professional soundtrack writing program), and ProTools (recording and mixing software). These courses are for kids who are interested in carriers in Music Industry, audio recoding, composition, soundtrack writing, etc. Our alumni who went though ECYS very first digital music courses are now hold master's Degree in soundtrack writing and work at the most prestigious Burbank studios as composers and sound designers. These classes are as important as our performance classes.
$7,250 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $97,250.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $105k to $59k (−44%).
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: 2023 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of EAST COUNTY 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 4 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
Alexandra Keegan
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $25k → $77k.
2 of 25 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 EAST COUNTY 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.
How concentrated its funding is
EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 51% · 2019 22% · 2020 29% · 2021 20% · 2022 26% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.
“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
39% of EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
99% of EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY
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 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 EAST COUNTY 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 EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY?
- EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $308,788 to it, the largest being THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION ($50,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $308,788 in grants to EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY?
- THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAST COUNTY 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 25 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