Arizona · Nonprofit
METROPOLITAN YOUTH SYMPHONY
METROPOLITAN YOUTH SYMPHONY (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,536 to it, the largest being GILES W & ELISE G MEAD FOUNDATION ($43,050). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $200k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $4k
What Metropolitan Youth Symphony does
Mission
Challenging program of orchestral music for youth
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Weekly rehearsals and sectionals for 325 children through 9th grade in 3 string, 1 full orchestra and1 fiddler group. Four concerts held annually with avg attendance of 1150. 96 youth participatedin 3 recitals. Fiddlers performed 5 times. Scholarship competition of 70 youth.
$64,949 spentof which $22,607 as grants86% of program spendingProvide private music lesson need based scholarships for qualified students. Private lessons, thoughnot required, are key in the success of the student in his or her musical advancement. 23 studentsbenefited from private lessons.
$5,460 spent7% of program spendingA two day retreat with additional rehearsals and activities designed to build cohesion among fullorchestra members. Tremendous amount of sight reading practice - essential for strengtheningmusicianship.
$4,705 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $75,114.
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.
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 $417k to $0 (−100%).
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.
20% of METROPOLITAN YOUTH SYMPHONY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Karalee K Hagen
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $14k → $98.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 SYMPHONY’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 SYMPHONY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
40% 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 SYMPHONY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 97% · 2019 97% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 SYMPHONY draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Against its field
METROPOLITAN YOUTH SYMPHONY receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $83k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like METROPOLITAN YOUTH SYMPHONY
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 SYMPHONY: 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 SYMPHONY?
- METROPOLITAN YOUTH SYMPHONY (Arizona) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,536 to it, the largest being GILES W & ELISE G MEAD FOUNDATION ($43,050). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN YOUTH SYMPHONY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $82,536 in grants to METROPOLITAN YOUTH SYMPHONY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN YOUTH SYMPHONY?
- GILES W & ELISE G MEAD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $43,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN YOUTH SYMPHONY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 7 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