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INNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC

INNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,695,088 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,140,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.2M
Revenue FY2024
28
Funders on record
$3.7M
Grants received
$0
Net assets
11/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%

Against its field

INNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−42% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($881k) Expenses 100 ($423k) Net assets 100 ($522k)2021 Revenue 39 ($341k) Expenses 129 ($546k) Net assets 20 ($104k)2022 Revenue 161 ($1.4M) Expenses 245 ($1.0M) Net assets 85 ($446k)2023 Revenue 361 ($3.2M) Expenses 322 ($1.4M) Net assets 0 ($0)2024 Revenue 131 ($1.2M) Expenses 387 ($1.6M) Net assets 0 ($0)
20172021202220232024
Revenue (131)Expenses (387)Net assets (0)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 25% · 2023 64% · 2024 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of INNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$458k
’17
−$205k
’21
$386k
’22
$1.8M
’23
−$485k
’24
12
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $532k → $890k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
3
2
2
6
6
10
11
10
6

5 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 INNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC’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

INNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

31%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 86% · 2019 75% · 2020 87% · 2021 63% · 2022 34% · 2023 51% — 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

44% of INNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

61% of INNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
PA
CA
DE
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $510k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 28 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like INNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Community Youth Orchestra of Southern California76%Los Angeles Sinfonietta Orchestra73%Los Angeles Youth Symphony Orchestra72%Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc72%Sol-La Music Academy Inc72%Young Musicians Choral Orchestra71%Southern California Children's Choral Association71%Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras Inc71%

Nationally

Community Youth Orchestra of Southern California76%All Florida Youth Orchestra Inc73%Los Angeles Sinfonietta Orchestra73%Internal Creations Inc73%St Lukes Chamber Ensemble Inc73%Musica Sacra of New York Inc73%Los Angeles Youth Symphony Orchestra72%Concerts for Causes Inc72%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

0
board members
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds INNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC?
INNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,695,088 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,140,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $3,695,088 in grants to INNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC?
THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing