Alabama · Nonprofit
METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OFCENTRAL ALABAMA
METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OFCENTRAL ALABAMA (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,316 to it, the largest being THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ($262,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $61k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $263k
- Net assets
- $188k
What Metropolitan Youth Orchestras Ofcentral Alabama does
Mission
To provide low to no cost music lessons and instruments to children in low-income families.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization provides low to no cost music lessons and instruments to approximately 100 students in a low-income area
$57,752 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $57,752.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $170k to $219k (+29%).
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.
77% of METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OFCENTRAL ALABAMA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jeane Goforth
CEO/COO
Board chair
Douglas Orcutt
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $30k.
1 of 3 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 METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OFCENTRAL ALABAMA’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
METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OFCENTRAL ALABAMA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OFCENTRAL ALABAMA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 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
METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OFCENTRAL ALABAMA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $539 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.
Against its field
METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OFCENTRAL ALABAMA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 435 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 435 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OFCENTRAL ALABAMA
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OFCENTRAL ALABAMA: 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 METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OFCENTRAL ALABAMA?
- METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OFCENTRAL ALABAMA (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,316 to it, the largest being THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ($262,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OFCENTRAL ALABAMA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $263,316 in grants to METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OFCENTRAL ALABAMA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OFCENTRAL ALABAMA?
- THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $262,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OFCENTRAL ALABAMA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2019–2026), and the filings of 3 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