California · Nonprofit
Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony
Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,673 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($12,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $81k
What Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony does
Mission
Music education for youth
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony provides the youth of our local area the opportunity to learn the art and skill of music and then perform in live musical events.
$84,675 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $84,675.
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 $51k to $78k (+54%).
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.
37% of Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 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 $6k → $6k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Santa Cruz County 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
Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 89% · 2022 80% · 2023 94% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony has grown faster than half of the 710 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 710 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like Santa Cruz County 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 Santa Cruz County 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 Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony?
- Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,673 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($12,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $20,673 in grants to Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony?
- ARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $12,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 4 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