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VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC

VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,029,979 to it, the largest being AMY E TARRANT FOUNDATION INC ($420,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.0M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$2.7M
15/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Vermont Youth Orchestra Association Inc does

Mission

The vermont youth orchestra association ("vyoa") is a community that transforms young people's lives through music by fostering a culture where musicians realize their artistic potential, form lifelong friendships, and strive for musical excellence.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Youth and training orchestras - nearly 300 youth members, school concerts, open rehearsals, ensemble performances, and public concerts.music camps and classes - summer day camps, after-school programs, instrument lessons, and school-day and other educational tours and activities.

    $694,732 spent$524,869 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $694,732.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($671k) Expenses 100 ($631k) Net assets 100 ($1.9M)2018 Revenue 86 ($579k) Expenses 108 ($684k) Net assets 95 ($1.8M)2019 Revenue 112 ($749k) Expenses 135 ($850k) Net assets 89 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 102 ($682k) Expenses 117 ($741k) Net assets 86 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 125 ($839k) Expenses 115 ($724k) Net assets 96 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 171 ($1.1M) Expenses 121 ($763k) Net assets 104 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 190 ($1.3M) Expenses 177 ($1.1M) Net assets 114 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 199 ($1.3M) Expenses 148 ($936k) Net assets 139 ($2.6M)2025 Revenue 151 ($1.0M) Expenses 158 ($999k) Net assets 144 ($2.7M)
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Revenue (151)Expenses (158)Net assets (144)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.2M to $2.7M (+22%).

$1.9M
$1.9M
$1.9M
$1.8M
$1.9M
$2.0M
$2.2M
$2.7M
$2.9M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 19% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

44% of VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$41k
’17
−$105k
’18
−$101k
’19
−$59k
’20
$116k
’21
$386k
’22
$160k
’23
$402k
’24
$12k
’25
2.8
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

Rosina V Cannizzaro

Exec director

Board chair

Renee Stapleton

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed111211101011101011
Joined·+2+1+1+2+5+0+1+1
No longer listed·12224110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $23k → $425k.

Funder
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'22
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total
funders
3
3
7
9
10
13
7
12
4
1

7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 funders by total. 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

VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% 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

45% 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 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC.

41%
largest funder
70%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 71% · 2019 44% · 2020 37% · 2021 34% · 2022 29% · 2023 71% — 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

64% of VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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 VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Vermont funders.

VT
NH
NY
MA
NJ
MD

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

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Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $312k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

Against its field

VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.

State$2k
24
26
Top programs
  • Other Purchased Services$2k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION 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 Vermont

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Nationally

Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc90%Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras Inc88%Yellow Barn Inc86%Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra Inc85%Phoenix Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc85%The Gifford Florida Youth Orchestra85%Young People's Symphony Orchestra Association85%Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc85%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 15%Fundraising 15%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

60%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC?
VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,029,979 to it, the largest being AMY E TARRANT FOUNDATION INC ($420,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,029,979 in grants to VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC?
AMY E TARRANT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $420,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 21 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