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Williamsburg Youth Orchestra

Williamsburg Youth Orchestra (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,822 to it, the largest being Charles S & Millicent P Brown Family Foundation ($18,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$161k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$37k
Net assets
$135k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Williamsburg Youth Orchestra does

Mission

Youth Orchestra & Related Youth Music Pr

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. WYOs symphony orchestra, string orchestra and junior brass & wind ensemble served approx. 125 school-age students in the Williamsburg area. Students attended weekely rehearsals

    $43,601 spent
    65% of program spending
  2. WYOs 2024 Summer Camp served approximatley 42 school age children. The week-long camp was non-resdiental and held one concert.

    $14,990 spent
    22% of program spending
  3. WYOs winter chamber music program supported small ensembles for approximately 42 school-age students in the Williamsburg area. The students attended weekly rehearsals.

    $8,738 spent
    13% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $67,329.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($91k) Expenses 100 ($83k) Net assets 100 ($58k)2023 Revenue 108 ($99k) Expenses 105 ($87k) Net assets 121 ($69k)2024 Revenue 148 ($135k) Expenses 128 ($106k) Net assets 172 ($99k)2025 Revenue 176 ($161k) Expenses 151 ($125k) Net assets 234 ($135k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (176)Expenses (151)Net assets (234)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 2024 to 2025, from $99k to $135k (+36%).

$58k
$69k
$99k
$135k
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

39% of Williamsburg Youth Orchestra’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’22
$12k
’23
$30k
’24
$36k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Tanya Song

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $5k.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 Williamsburg 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

Williamsburg Youth Orchestra leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

50% 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 Williamsburg Youth Orchestra.

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 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

50% of Williamsburg Youth Orchestra's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $18k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state.

IL

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

’17
’18
’19
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Williamsburg Youth Orchestra has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Williamsburg Youth Orchestra

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05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Williamsburg Youth Orchestra?
Williamsburg Youth Orchestra (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,822 to it, the largest being Charles S & Millicent P Brown Family Foundation ($18,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Williamsburg Youth Orchestra have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,822 in grants to Williamsburg Youth Orchestra, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Williamsburg Youth Orchestra?
Charles S & Millicent P Brown Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $18,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Williamsburg Youth Orchestra find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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