West Virginia · Nonprofit
WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC
WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,892 to it, the largest being THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION ($93,570). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $163k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $208k
- Net assets
- $110k
What West Virginia Youth Symphony Inc does
Mission
Music education in orchestral music for children ages 7-20 years old.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Annual live performances by the West Virginia Youth Symphony for the 2024-2025 season included the Chamber Concert on April 6, 2025, at First Presbyterian Church, Winter Concert (December 9, 2024), Spring Concert (May 12, 2025), and Symphony Sunday (June 1, 2024). On May 3, 2025, Youth Orchestra students performed with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra (WVSO) at the Clay Center Maier Theater in a Side by Side performance of Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances. After a full year of planning and additional fundraising, WVYS Youth Orchestra members, alumni, and guest student musicians from Monongalia County united for a two-week rehearsal camp at First Presbyterian Church in preparation for the WVYS's 5th European tour. On June 13, 2025, the tour orchestra performed a Send-Off Concert in the Clay Center lobby, free of charge and open to the public. Tour participants departed June 15 and performed on June 17 in Budapest, Hungary at the MOM Cultural Center, June 20 in Charleston's Sister City of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia at the Church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary, and June 22 in Prague, Czechoslovakia at the Church of St. Simon and St. Jude, returning home safely on June 23.
$162,571 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $162,571.
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 2020 to 2021, from $90k to $105k (+16%).
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.
81% of WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC’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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $26k → $10k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC’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
WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 62% · 2019 61% · 2020 64% · 2021 68% · 2022 64% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
80% of WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC's grant income comes from West Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $208k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY 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 West Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC?
- WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,892 to it, the largest being THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION ($93,570). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $207,892 in grants to WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC?
- THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $93,570 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 7 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