North Carolina · Nonprofit
WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA
WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,232 to it, the largest being THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ($49,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $200k
- Net assets
- $173k
What Wake Forest Community Youth Orchestra does
Mission
Teach at risk under served youth music
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Normal program activity
$105,112 spentof which $80,725 as grants$22,629 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $105,112.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $18k to $110k (+516%).
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: 2022 53% · 2023 67% · 2024 83% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY 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. 0 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Dr Lasaundra Belcher
Executive director (ex-officio)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $42 → $41k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY 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
WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
86% 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 WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 37% · 2023 49% — 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 WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 1 year 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
WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k 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.
Against its field
WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA is better cushioned 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
Government funding WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
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 WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA: 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 WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA?
- WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,232 to it, the largest being THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ($49,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $200,232 in grants to WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA?
- THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $49,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAKE FOREST COMMUNITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 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