Minnesota · Nonprofit
GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES
GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,343,786 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($200,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies does
Mission
In the conviction that music nourishes the mind, body, and spirit of the individual and enriches the community, the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies provides a rigorous and inspiring orchestral experience for young musicians.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See schedule o.the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies (gtcys, pronounced git-seez) opens doors to music and provides a musical pathway for students of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. Our music education programs break down barriers and help students excel musically, build a lasting love of music, and develop lifelong skills like teamwork, perseverance, and community engagement. Gtcys is unique with its equal emphasis on excellence and access, and our ability to continually expand programming to meet growing interest and community needs while maintaining high artistic quality at every student's level. This strategy has been a catalyst for ongoing programmatic growth and gtcys has become the largest youth orchestra program in the country. Gtcys is also unique in the amount and scope of programming we provide in contrast to the modest size of our staff and budget. Highlights of the 2024-25 season include: gtcys' school-year orchestras expanded to 11 with the addition of camerata vivace based in the east metro. 914 students ages 7 18 from across the region developed musical and personal skills through weekly rehearsals, sectionals with professional musicians, performances,…
$1,604,258 spent$1,158,310 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,604,258.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $2.3M (+53%).
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 5% · 2018 14% · 2019 12% · 2020 4% · 2021 19% · 2022 25% · 2023 6% · 2024 8% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Megen Balda
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $93k → $161k.
10 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
37% 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 GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 84% · 2019 32% · 2020 21% · 2021 15% · 2022 12% · 2023 22% — 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
33% of GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
83% of GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $416k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Organizations like GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES?
- GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,343,786 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($200,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,343,786 in grants to GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES?
- Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 39 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