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YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC

YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,861 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ($27,390). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$217k
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$163k
Net assets
$100k
12/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Youth Orchestra of Greater Columbus Inc does

Mission

To provide opportunities for young people to learn, perform, and enjoy classical music in columbus, georgia and the surrounding valley area.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The youth orchestra association of greater columbus, inc. Sponsors and promotes two youth orchestras, a string orchestra, and a full symphonic orchestra. The association provides an opportunity for qualified students to enhance their musical education and performance skills. Weekly rehearsals are provided for the 70 students selected for the orchestra. Professional coaches also provided coaching for 18 of our students in four separate chamber ensemble rehearsals weekly. The orchestra performed a fall concert in october 2024, participated in the whitewater orchestra festival, and a side by side concert with metropolitan youth symphony orchestras of atlanta in february 2025, performed a spring concert in collaboration with the columbus ballet and local soloists in april 2025, and hosted summer string camp and a concert in june 2025. The chamber groups also performed a chamber recital in march 2025 as well as in multiple community events throughout the year. The youth orchestra also piloted a new youth orchestra academy program, targeting students in title I schools and had 8 nominees given full scholarships, transportation, and dinner weekly to perform as part of the ensemble.

    $113,476 spent$50,642 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $113,476.

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 ($177k) Expenses 100 ($147k) Net assets 100 ($63k)2018 Revenue 90 ($160k) Expenses 97 ($144k) Net assets 126 ($79k)2019 Revenue 99 ($176k) Expenses 110 ($162k) Net assets 148 ($93k)2020 Revenue 85 ($150k) Expenses 102 ($150k) Net assets 147 ($93k)2021 Revenue 80 ($142k) Expenses 80 ($118k) Net assets 186 ($117k)2022 Revenue 62 ($110k) Expenses 103 ($151k) Net assets 121 ($76k)2023 Revenue 76 ($135k) Expenses 116 ($171k) Net assets 64 ($40k)2024 Revenue 88 ($157k) Expenses 105 ($155k) Net assets 66 ($41k)2025 Revenue 122 ($217k) Expenses 107 ($158k) Net assets 159 ($100k)
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Revenue (122)Expenses (107)Net assets (159)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 $42k to $101k (+137%).

$64k
$80k
$94k
$94k
$119k
$77k
$41k
$42k
$101k
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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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

76% of YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 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.

$30k
’17
$16k
’18
$14k
’19
−$139
’20
$24k
’21
−$41k
’22
−$36k
’23
$1k
’24
$59k
’25
7.6
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $13k → $20k.

5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS 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

YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC.

17%
largest funder
44%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 29% · 2019 78% · 2020 28% · 2021 42% · 2022 47% · 2023 39% — 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.

How long its funders stay

33% of YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

75% of YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

NY
RI
GA
FL

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

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Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 27%Fundraising 1%

Governance

15
board members
80%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

82%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC?
YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,861 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ($27,390). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $162,861 in grants to YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC is the largest funder on record, with $27,390 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
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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 23 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