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THE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA
THE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA (Florida) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $816,226 to it, the largest being UNITED CHARITABLE ($292,154). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $850k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $816k
- Net assets
- $452k
What The Gifford Florida Youth Orchestra does
Mission
As a contribution to the idea of breaking the cycles of poverty, our mission is to provide education, experience, and training in various cultural and performing arts, including music, drama, dance, and the vocal arts for the youth of gifford, florida and neighboring indian river county communities, with a core focus on mastering stringed instruments.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The gifford youth orchestra is a youth enrichment program offering music education and performance skills to "at risk" children. In its twenty-one year history, it has provided instruments and classes to over 400 students ages 3-18, including a summer camp experience, string weekend clinics, recitals and performances. Gyo students performed 19 public concerts and events in 2023 throughout indian river county florida. There were 120 students served through gyo program in 2023 via lessons and summer camp activities.
$504,661 spent$8,209 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $504,661.
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. 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 $442k to $1.3M (+203%).
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: 2020 5% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of THE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA’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. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $20k → $237k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 THE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA’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
THE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 THE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 82% · 2019 64% · 2020 99% · 2021 56% · 2022 56% · 2023 42% — 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
33% of THE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
85% of THE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $395k 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
THE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA?
- THE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA (Florida) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $816,226 to it, the largest being UNITED CHARITABLE ($292,154). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $816,226 in grants to THE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA?
- UNITED CHARITABLE is the largest funder on record, with $292,154 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GIFFORD FLORIDA YOUTH ORCHESTRA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 18 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