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SPOKANE YOUTH SYMPHONY INC

SPOKANE YOUTH SYMPHONY INC (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,234 to it, the largest being JOHNSTON-FIX FOUNDATION ($81,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$411k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$251k
Net assets
$161k
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Spokane Youth Symphony Inc does

Mission

Providing exemplary orchestral education and performance opportunities for the youth of the Inland Northwest.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The organization presented five concerts and a concerto competition and educated approximately 250 young people ranking from ages 7 to 19. Five levels of orchestra are offered to help in the students' advancement in the art of orchestral music. Designed to provide students with large group rehearsal and performance experience, the youth symphony allows students to enhance their musical skills by interacting with other musicians of varying abilities and performing music they find challenging yet attainable.

    $280,605 spentof which $7,886 as grants$227,156 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $280,605.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($221k) Expenses 100 ($207k) Net assets 100 ($132k)2018 Revenue 94 ($209k) Expenses 87 ($179k) Net assets 122 ($161k)2020 Revenue 105 ($233k) Expenses 123 ($254k) Net assets 140 ($184k)2021 Revenue 85 ($188k) Expenses 89 ($184k) Net assets 132 ($174k)2022 Revenue 84 ($185k) Expenses 102 ($211k) Net assets 118 ($155k)2023 Revenue 131 ($290k) Expenses 141 ($291k) Net assets 112 ($148k)2024 Revenue 154 ($340k) Expenses 166 ($344k) Net assets 89 ($117k)2025 Revenue 186 ($411k) Expenses 178 ($368k) Net assets 122 ($161k)
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Revenue (186)Expenses (178)Net assets (122)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $139k to $203k (+45%).

$133k
$165k
$184k
$174k
$155k
$148k
$139k
$203k
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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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 35% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’17
$29k
’18
−$21k
’20
$3k
’21
−$26k
’22
−$1k
’23
−$3k
’24
$43k
’25
4.8
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.

Chief executive

Jennifer O'Bannan

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed914121413121213
Joined·+6·+2+2+4+3+4
No longer listed·1·03533
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $16k → $41k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 SPOKANE 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

SPOKANE YOUTH SYMPHONY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

32% 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 SPOKANE YOUTH SYMPHONY INC.

32%
largest funder
82%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 50% · 2019 62% · 2020 60% · 2021 46% · 2022 33% · 2023 29% — 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

60% of SPOKANE YOUTH SYMPHONY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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

97% of SPOKANE YOUTH SYMPHONY INC's grant income comes from Washington funders.

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ID

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

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’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 13%Fundraising 11%

Governance

12
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 SPOKANE YOUTH SYMPHONY INC?
SPOKANE YOUTH SYMPHONY INC (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,234 to it, the largest being JOHNSTON-FIX FOUNDATION ($81,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPOKANE YOUTH SYMPHONY INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $251,234 in grants to SPOKANE YOUTH SYMPHONY INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPOKANE YOUTH SYMPHONY INC?
JOHNSTON-FIX FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $81,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPOKANE YOUTH SYMPHONY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 11 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