Montana · Nonprofit
MONTANA YOUTH SYMPHONY
MONTANA YOUTH SYMPHONY (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,000 to it, the largest being THE SIDNEY E FRANK FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $137k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $116k
- Net assets
- $66k
What Montana Youth Symphony does
Mission
The Montana Youth Symphony strives to unite young musicians, provide them opportunity, and celebrate their achievement with montana.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Montana Youth Symphony gathers young musicians from across montana for a unique experience to unite them andcelebrate their achievement. The musicians gather for oneweek in the northern rockies with their fellow musucians. They are then led by two conductors who help them prepare for two concerts for montana audiences. They also are able to attend a concert at the walk festival hall in teton village, wyoming.
$129,235 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $129,235.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $71k to $66k (−8%).
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.
92% of MONTANA YOUTH SYMPHONY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $40k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 MONTANA 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
MONTANA YOUTH SYMPHONY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 MONTANA YOUTH SYMPHONY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
MONTANA YOUTH SYMPHONY draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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.
Against its field
MONTANA YOUTH SYMPHONY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MONTANA 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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTANA 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 MONTANA YOUTH SYMPHONY?
- MONTANA YOUTH SYMPHONY (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,000 to it, the largest being THE SIDNEY E FRANK FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTANA YOUTH SYMPHONY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $116,000 in grants to MONTANA YOUTH SYMPHONY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTANA YOUTH SYMPHONY?
- THE SIDNEY E FRANK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTANA YOUTH SYMPHONY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), 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