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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.
Against its field
Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Marriner S Eccles Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Salt Lake Arts Council Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Emma Eccles Jones Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
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.
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
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 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Marriner S Eccles Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchUT · backs 84 organizations that share your funders · funds 73 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Salt Lake Arts Council Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchUT · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · funds 59 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Emma Eccles Jones Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchUT · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Mainshared funderslocalMO · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 38 organizations near you
- American Symphony Orchestra League D/B/A League of American Orchestrasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- W Mack & Julia S Watkins Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Simmons Family Foundationshared fundersUT · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- Beverley Taylor Sorenson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- D'Addario Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bruckner Society of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- M Bastian Family Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing