Illinois · Nonprofit
ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Illinois) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $882,544 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($260,621). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $936k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $883k
- Net assets
- $474k
What Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra does
Mission
The mission of the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra is to create a community of young musicians, enriching their lives and the lives of their families, schools, communities, and beyond, through the study and performance of excellent music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Eyso instrumental ensemble program - Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestras provided an instrumental ensemble music program for youth in the greater chicago area. The program includes three full symphony orchestras, two string orchestras, a brass choir, flute choir, and percussion ensembles, as well as a chamber music program. The eyso curriculum helps students not only to develop artistically and technically, but also to prepare them for a future of complex ideas, creative risk-taking, and leadership as global citizens. Rehearsals center not only around growing as players and collaborators, but also as thoughtful communicators and leaders in their sections, ensembles, schools, and communities.
$504,257 spent95% of program spendingStarter strings - Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestras' starter strings program provides beginning violin instruction, tuition free, to low-income students in the oakhill (streamwood, il) and roland d. O'neil (elgin, il) elementary schools. Students are provided with an instrument and receive group instruction after school. The annual program culminates with a performance by all of the enrolled students.
$25,448 spent5% of program spendingAll other services
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $529,705.
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 2022 to 2023, from $628k to $363k (−42%).
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: 2018 7% · 2019 11% · 2020 15% · 2021 4% · 2022 24% · 2023 4% · 2024 18% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $56k → $120k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY 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
ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 61% · 2019 45% · 2020 38% · 2021 53% · 2022 49% · 2023 37% — 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
67% of ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
53% of ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $416k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $467k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Illinois) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $882,544 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($260,621). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $882,544 in grants to ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $260,621 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 17 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