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Indianapolis Youth Orchestra
Indianapolis Youth Orchestra (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,831 to it, the largest being The Will Smith Charitable Foundation ($43,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $308k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $102k
- Net assets
- $379k
What Indianapolis Youth Orchestra does
Mission
The Indianapolis Youth Orchestras mission is to develop and nurture the musical talent of young people in Indianapolis and Central Indiana through quality music education and the rehearsal and performance of orchestral masterworks both traditional and contemporary.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The exempt purpose mission is accomplished through 9 months of weekly rehearsals consisting of approximately 200+ young musicians. Presented six public performances featuring four youth orchestras including a newly formed entry-level ensemble. A juried Young Artist Competition selected students for featured performances. The seasons highlight was a featured appearance at Carnegie Hall in New York City offering students an exceptional artistic and educational experience.
$144,668 spentof which $7,968 as grants$203,647 earned by the program100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $144,668.
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 $208k to $319k (+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: 2020 0% · 2021 24% · 2022 12% · 2023 9% · 2024 8% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Cara Pittenger
ExOfficio Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $23k → $182.
1 of 5 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 Indianapolis Youth 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
Indianapolis Youth Orchestra leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 Indianapolis Youth Orchestra.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — 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
57% of Indianapolis Youth Orchestra's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $565 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.
Organizations like Indianapolis Youth 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 Indianapolis Youth Orchestra: 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 Indianapolis Youth Orchestra?
- Indianapolis Youth Orchestra (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,831 to it, the largest being The Will Smith Charitable Foundation ($43,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Indianapolis Youth Orchestra have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $101,831 in grants to Indianapolis Youth Orchestra, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Indianapolis Youth Orchestra?
- The Will Smith Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $43,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Indianapolis Youth Orchestra find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 5 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