Oklahoma · Nonprofit
OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC
OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $617,997 to it, the largest being ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ($243,448). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $518k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $618k
- Net assets
- $177k
What Oklahoma Youth Orchestras Inc does
Mission
Through quality instrumental music education programs for students and accessible cultural offerings for the community, oklahoma youth orchestras provides opportunities for artistic excellence to central and western oklahoma.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided weekly music instruction and inspiration to 400 string, woodwind, brass and percussion students ages 8 to 18 from september through may through 11 ensembles, plus 60 middle school aged string students at summer camp in june. Presented eight concerts and performances throughout central oklahoma. Students in our top ensemble received over 70 hours of direct music education and inspiration. One new wind ensemble was launched for middle school band students.
$397,767 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $397,767.
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 2020 to 2021, from $269k to $191k (−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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 4% · 2022 4% · 2023 3% · 2024 4% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Ulises Serrano
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $38k → $85k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC’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
OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 58% · 2019 42% · 2020 29% · 2021 35% · 2022 34% · 2023 38% — 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
50% of OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
100% of OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC
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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC: 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 OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC?
- OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $617,997 to it, the largest being ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ($243,448). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $617,997 in grants to OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC?
- ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC is the largest funder on record, with $243,448 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OKLAHOMA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing