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MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES
MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $357,440 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($81,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $491k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $357k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Minnesota Youth Symphonies does
Mission
Minnesota Youth Symphonies (mys) enriches and inspires talented k-12 orchestral musicians by providing professional, comprehensive educational experiences, and thrills audiences with outstanding performances of orchestral repertoire.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Major Program Accomplishments this year: Minnesota Youth Symphonies hired Kelley DeMorrett to conduct the Philharmonic Orchestra after over 30 years being conducted by James Bartsch. The Symphony Orchestra Repertory Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra, Wind Orchestra and String Orchestra played over 45 pieces in three concerts. Two concerts-in November and February-took place at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis. A third concert took place at the end of April at the Benson Great Hall at Bethel University. The April concert included a percussion ensemble made up of percussionists from all ensembles supplemented by a few non-percussionists from the Symphony Orchestra. The April concert was the final concert for long-time String Orchestra conductor, Patricia Kelly, along with 55 high school seniors. During the summer of 2024, 45 string students participated in the summer string camp during the final week of June. Over 300 students participated in in-person auditions for the season.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2017 to 2018, from $658k to $247k (−62%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 5% · 2021 14% · 2024 0% · 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. 5 of the last 9 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $18k → $66k.
3 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES’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
MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 27% · 2019 31% · 2020 22% · 2021 27% · 2022 28% · 2023 26% — 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
73% of MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
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
90% of MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES?
- MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $357,440 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($81,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $357,440 in grants to MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES?
- Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $81,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 21 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