North Dakota · Nonprofit
Northern Valley Youth Orchestras
Northern Valley Youth Orchestras (North Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $309,796 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND REGION ($256,121). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $138k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $310k
- Net assets
- $55k
What Northern Valley Youth Orchestras does
Mission
To provide an exceptional education experience to members of the orchestras and chamber music programs and to provide artistic performances that enrich the lives of developing musicians, our communities, and our region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras. Prepared and performed concerts to public audiences.
$122,848 spent93% of program spendingCrescendo Chamber Music Program. Students had coaching and master class opportunities and presented a final performance in the public library.
$1,050 spent1% of program spendingDal Segno Music Camp. Provided instruction in chamber music to string and wind musicians. Presented a formal concert and a second performance at the local farmer's market.
$8,077 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $131,975.
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 2023 to 2024, from $23k to $49k (+119%).
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.
75% of Northern Valley Youth Orchestras’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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $50k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 Northern Valley Youth Orchestras’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
Northern Valley Youth Orchestras leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 Northern Valley Youth Orchestras.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 97% · 2019 96% · 2020 82% · 2021 55% · 2022 87% · 2023 87% — 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
83% of Northern Valley Youth Orchestras's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $53k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from North Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $257k 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
Northern Valley Youth Orchestras's revenue grew 66% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Northern Valley Youth Orchestras
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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Northern Valley Youth Orchestras?
- Northern Valley Youth Orchestras (North Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $309,796 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND REGION ($256,121). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Northern Valley Youth Orchestras have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $309,796 in grants to Northern Valley Youth Orchestras, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Northern Valley Youth Orchestras?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND REGION is the largest funder on record, with $256,121 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Northern Valley Youth Orchestras find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 5 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