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SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC

SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $441,231 to it, the largest being THE KIRK FOUNDATION ($135,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$339k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$441k
Net assets
$132k
8/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What South Florida Youth Symphony Inc does

Mission

The organization operates a youth symphony for purposes of teaching the art and performance of music. Individualized instruction and peformances in front of audiences are essential to the teaching/learning process.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Successfully educated over 250 students in music theory and performance in fornt of live audiences during tax year. Program service accomplishments include corporate/foundation in kind donations of over 60k and voulunteer hours of over 55k.

  2. Successfully educated over 250 students in music theory and performance in fornt of live audiences during tax year. Program service accomplishments include corporate/foundation in kind donations of over 60k and voulunteer hours of over 55k.

    $291,753 spent
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $291,753.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($283k) Expenses 100 ($260k) Net assets 100 ($121k)2020 Revenue 66 ($186k) Expenses 77 ($201k) Net assets 90 ($109k)2021 Revenue 68 ($194k) Expenses 64 ($166k) Net assets 112 ($136k)2022 Revenue 77 ($217k) Expenses 99 ($256k) Net assets 79 ($96k)2023 Revenue 118 ($334k) Expenses 133 ($347k) Net assets 69 ($84k)2024 Revenue 119 ($338k) Expenses 120 ($312k) Net assets 91 ($110k)2025 Revenue 120 ($339k) Expenses 121 ($316k) Net assets 109 ($132k)
2018202020212022202320242025
Revenue (120)Expenses (121)Net assets (109)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $136k to $96k (−29%).

$128k
$109k
$136k
$96k
$84k
$110k
$132k
2018202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 25% · 2020 34% · 2021 49% · 2022 66% · 2023 56% · 2024 48% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$23k
’18
−$15k
’20
$27k
’21
−$39k
’22
−$13k
’23
$26k
’24
$24k
’25
2.0
months of
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.

2018202020212022202320242025
Listed6665555
Joined··+1+0+0+0+1
No longer listed··11001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $61k → $52k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY 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

SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

31%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 38% · 2019 29% · 2020 42% · 2021 45% · 2022 45% · 2023 39% — 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

57% of SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

78% of SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

NY
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY 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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 4%Fundraising 5%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC?
SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $441,231 to it, the largest being THE KIRK FOUNDATION ($135,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $441,231 in grants to SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC?
THE KIRK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 10 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