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Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association
Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association (Utah) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,600 to it, the largest being THE ZIONS BANCORPORATION FOUNDATION ($80,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $278k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $235k
- Net assets
- $225k
What Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association does
Mission
To educate and inspire young musicians through exceptional ensemble training and performance opportunities in classical music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Utah Youth Symphony has a thriving program in Fiscal Year 2025. We had 193 participants in three orchestras. Students performed a total of four concerts for thousands of audience members. the Utah Youth Philharmonic and the Utah Youth Symphony performed concerts of Mendelssohn and Coleridge-Taylor in Libby Gardner Hall on the University of Utah campus and the Salt Lake Tabernacle, respectively. The Utah Youth Junior Symphony held a concert in the Fine Arts West Auditorium on the University of Utah campus. The three orchestras combined in the spring for a concert of Rimsky-Korsakovs Scheherezade and Capriccio Espanol.
$195,355 spentof which $184,442 as grants$93,196 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $195,355.
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 2019 to 2020, from $139k to $190k (+37%).
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: 2019 16% · 2020 8% · 2021 8% · 2022 5% · 2023 7% · 2024 10% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association’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. 2 of the last 9 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
Lisa Stolz
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $15k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association’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
Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 57% · 2020 78% · 2021 57% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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 Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association: 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 Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association?
- Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association (Utah) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,600 to it, the largest being THE ZIONS BANCORPORATION FOUNDATION ($80,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $234,600 in grants to Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association?
- THE ZIONS BANCORPORATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 6 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