Youth Symphony of DuPage
Legal name: Youth Symphony of Dupage Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363585241
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Glen Ellyn, IL, United States
- Phone
- 6302434293
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Symphony Orchestras
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $152,832
- Expenses
- $135,818
- Assets
- $136,892
- Liabilities
- $2,685
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAY BURDI (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID GAVIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JO ANN FOSS (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BENJAMIN NADEL (MUSIC DIRECTOR)
- CARRIE PROVOST (CONDUCTOR)
- DARYL SILERAN (CONDUCTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Youth Symphony of DuPage is dedicated to bringing advanced ensemble training and performance opportunities to talented young musicians from DuPage County and the surrounding Chicagoland area. Youth Symphony of DuPage (YSDP) is dedicated to bringing advanced ensemble training and performance opportunities to over 160 talented young musicians from throughout DuPage County and nearby towns. Our Concert Orchestra members are primarily advanced grade-school, junior-high, and high school-age musicians. The Symphony Orchestra members are primarily junior-high and high school instrumentalists. YSDP is a unique opportunity for musicians to tackle great music and achieve musical excellence. Our concert repertoires are drawn from the standard classical literature to advanced works. Ensemble opportunities are available for our members to showcase their talents in smaller groups with performa.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ysdp provides advanced ensemble training in music through 35 to 40 rehearsals annualy follow be performanceopportunities for young musicians of junior high age
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.2%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 41.3%; rating input score 41
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.1%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 36.2% of revenue deployed · 41.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.