SAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1200

Street

1650 EL PRADO STE 207A

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

• San Diego Youth Symphony (SDYS)San Diego Youth Symphony is the flagship of KeyNotes music education programs and, for nearly eighty years, has offered its youth orchestra programs in Balboa Park for young musicians, from beginning through advanced levels. Built on four levels of instruction in twelve ensembles, SDYS features weekly rehearsals and annual performance opportunities. To focus on the whole musician, SDYS extension programs also offer opportunities to participate in chamber music, concerto competitions, music theory and composition programs, individual and group lessons, student mentoring opportunities, and more. In 2025, SDYS reintroduced the SDYS Jazz program, offering two ensembles for intermediate and advanced level jazz students. In 2026, SDYS will complete its curriculum with beginning wind, brass and percussion programs that will better bridge our early childhood curriculum to the ensemble program. Community Engagement: The Opus ProjectWe are committed to giving every young person across San Diego the opportunity to receive quality in-school music education. As such, we collaborate with local schools, feeder patterns, and school districts to restore, enhance, and strengthen in-school music programs and arts-rich environments. With on-site access for every student as the ultimate goal, we launched The Opus Project in 2010 in partnership with the Chula Vista Elementary School District (CVESD). In 2015, the success of this program resulted in a landmark $15M commitment to bringing arts teachers to every campus. Today, The Opus Project continues to thrive and we are now replicating, adapting and expanding this program with the San Diego Unified and Santee school districts. In addition to The Opus Project, we also offer limited assistance to schools through community partnership projects, through a program known as Opus Connect, to support music education efforts in elementary, middle and high schools across the county.Early Childhood: ChIMES and Music DiscoverySDYS supports the critical first phase of childrens growth from birth to age seven with programs that promote extended learning at home, support family bonding, and pave the way for future musical instruction and achievement. ChIMES is the first step of this curriculum. By encouraging ensemble-based learning from ages 0-5, we promote stronger pro-social skills, improved speech and language development, school preparation, and ensure that children from all backgrounds have access to quality music programs. The next program in our curriculum, Music Discovery, for children ages 5-7, turns the play-based learning of ChIMES into ensemble-based music literacy classes where children are introduced to the instrument families of the orchestra and, over the course of the two-year program, select the instrument they will ultimately pursue in an SDYS ensemble. Advocacy, Outreach and ServiceKeyNote continues to work throughout San Diego County to ensure quality access to music education, and to educate our audiences about classical music. Our students participate in a variety of community performances, as well as numerous events in Balboa Park. We also collaborate with multiple partners to gather and analyze data with regard to student learning and achievement through music. We partner with schools and school districts across the county to explore the effects of music on children.

  Expenses $1,836,699 · Revenue $945,067

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,524,643

  Expenses

  $2,762,551

  Contributions

  $1,573,517

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,432,524

  Expenses

  $2,696,817

  Contributions

  $1,229,863

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,392,688

  Expenses

  $2,694,947

  Contributions

  $1,264,897

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,063,861

  Expenses

  $2,257,774

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,027,945

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,245,854

  Expenses

  $1,868,107

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,933,341

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,750,650

  Expenses

  $1,738,320

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,059,907

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,566,967

  Expenses

  $1,840,046

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,784,419

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,948,315

  Expenses

  $1,820,919

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,001,237

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,815,723

  Expenses

  $1,884,965

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,809,910

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,807,770

  Expenses

  $1,764,567

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,734,150

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,900,124

  Expenses

  $2,094,026

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,820,328

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,448,176

  Expenses

  $1,426,054

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,947,322

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,250,928

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,736,184

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION

  $341,619

  2022 · ENCORE SCHOLARSHIPS

• THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION

  $216,099

  2023 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION

  $194,936

  2024 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT

• JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO

  $105,829

  2024 · GENERAL

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $46,700

  2024 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• FIFTH THIRD CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $31,500

  2022 · FOR THE ORGANIZATION'S GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES

• RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND

  $29,300

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE

  $25,000

  2023 · CATALYST FUND GRANT

• AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE

  $25,000

  2022 · CATALYST FUND GRANT

• SAN DIEGO KIWANIS CLUB FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  2024 · TO FURTHER EXEMPT PURPOSE

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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