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LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC

LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $651,603 to it, the largest being FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ($484,929). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$453k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$652k
Net assets
$462k
8/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Louisville-Jefferson County Youth Orchestra Inc does

Mission

To provide a quality musical experience for young musicians and provide opportunities to perform.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Maintain orchestras, elementary string program, and various ensembles for youth in order to provide orchestral training for musicians from grade school through age 20.

    $369,233 spent$238,689 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $369,233.

02The 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 ($382k) Expenses 100 ($376k) Net assets 100 ($403k)2018 Revenue 100 ($384k) Expenses 99 ($374k) Net assets 102 ($413k)2019 Revenue 110 ($419k) Expenses 107 ($401k) Net assets 108 ($433k)2020 Revenue 96 ($368k) Expenses 99 ($374k) Net assets 106 ($428k)2021 Revenue 74 ($282k) Expenses 73 ($274k) Net assets 108 ($435k)2022 Revenue 79 ($302k) Expenses 79 ($297k) Net assets 107 ($431k)2023 Revenue 111 ($426k) Expenses 88 ($332k) Net assets 130 ($523k)2024 Revenue 98 ($373k) Expenses 107 ($402k) Net assets 123 ($495k)2025 Revenue 119 ($453k) Expenses 129 ($485k) Net assets 115 ($462k)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (129)Net assets (115)Peer revenue range

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 $516k to $607k (+18%).

$429k
$431k
$470k
$467k
$544k
$516k
$607k
$588k
$546k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 5% · 2022 10% · 2023 28% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

41% of LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
$10k
’18
$18k
’19
−$5k
’20
$7k
’21
$5k
’22
$93k
’23
−$29k
’24
−$32k
’25
0.2
months of
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

Matthew Vanover

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed201717171714171717
Joined·+6+0+0+0+7+4+2+1
No longer listed·900010121
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $90k → $67k.

2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA 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

LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

77% 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 LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC.

74%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 72% · 2019 74% · 2020 86% · 2021 89% · 2022 75% · 2023 77% — 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

50% of LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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

89% of LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

WI
MI
IN
CT
KY
FL

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

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’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $885 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC's revenue grew 19% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 12%Fundraising 11%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

KY

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Questions and answers

Who funds LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC?
LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $651,603 to it, the largest being FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ($484,929). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $651,603 in grants to LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC?
FUND FOR THE ARTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $484,929 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 14 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