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Young Audiences Inc

The mission of young audiences is to inspire young people and expand their learning through the arts.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$618kHuman Services$250kEducation$89kYouth Development$9k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNG AUDIENCES OF MARYLAND$15,000
YOUNG AUDIENCES OF LUBBOCK$10,000
ARTS FOR LEARNING NORTHWEST$10,000
YOUNG AUDIENCES OF LOUISIANA$9,450
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $255k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OR
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$653k · 16 repeat orgs$312k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$653k
$302k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • YA
    Young Audiences of Louisiana Inc
    6× · 2018–2025 · $95k · revenue +107%
  • AF
    ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $94k · revenue +280%
  • YA
    YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON
    4× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • EC
    EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +409%
  • AF
    ARTS FOR LEARNINGMIAMI INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +36%
  • AF
    ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +25%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Youth in Arts

Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…

Arts & Culture
2
Alabama Alliance for Arts Education

To advocate for and provide educational opportunitiesin the arts

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3
Young Audiences of Eastern Pa Inc

Young Auidiences (YA) mission is to inspire young peope and expand their learning through the arts. Arts education is who we are and what we do. The work of the board, staff, and teaching artists is guided by a vision of a future in which…

Arts & Culture
4
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
5
Utah Arts Academy

Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…

Education
6
Young at Art

Provide arts education

Unclassified
7
ArtsPlus

Arts+ teaches music and art to students of all socioeconomic backgrounds, offering financial assistance, scholarship and free outreach programs to honor its founding mission to make high-quality arts instruction available to all.

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8
Connecting Through the Arts and Edu
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9
Open Arts Alliance Inc

Open Arts Alliance empowers youth through performing arts education in a supportive environment fostering creativity, confidence and self expression. Our programs nurture the next generation of leaders both on and off the stage while…

Health
10
Young Audiences Inc

The mission of young audiences is to inspire young people and expand their learning through the arts. by integrating the arts into the learning environment, generations of children will thrive by realizing their creative and critical…

Arts & Culture
11
Learning Through Art

Learning Through Art, Inc. is dedicated to providing quality performing arts programs in support of arts integrated education, literacy, community development and engagement encouraging multi-cultural awareness and understanding.

Unclassified
12
Iowa Arts in Education Dba Artforce Iowa

Creating opportunities for youth to transform through art

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Audiences New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lubbock Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Young Audiences of Louisiana Inc: $95,250 · Arts & CultureYoung Audiences of Louisiana IncARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC: $93,500 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INCYOUNG AUDIENCES OF OREGON INC: $82,500 · Arts & CultureYOUNG AUDIENCES OF OREGON INCARTSNOW INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureARTSNOW INCKANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INCYOUNG AUDIENCES OF INDIANA INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG AUDIENCES OF INDIANA INCYOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC: $24,500 · Arts & CultureArkansas Learning Through the Arts: $21,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG AUDIENCES OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC D/B/A ARTS FOR LEARNING WNY: $17,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $63,400 · Arts & Culture+5 moreEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION+1 more: $5,400 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING: $65,251 · EducationCENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIR…YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON: $55,000 · EducationYOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF…ARTS PARTNERS INC: $42,500 · EducationARTS PARTNERS INCARTS FOR LEARNINGMIAMI INC: $25,000 · EducationARTS FOR LEARNINGMIAMI…+1 more: $5,550 · EducationAbilene Chamber of Commerce: $7,500 · OtherYOUNG AUDIENCES OF VIRGINIA INC: $6,500 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$502,650Human Services$255,400Education$193,301Other$7,500Youth Development$6,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetYoung Audiences of Louisiana Inc: $95,250 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC: $93,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES OF OREGON INC: $82,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING: $65,251 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON: $55,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetARTS PARTNERS INC: $42,500 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetARTSNOW INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES OF INDIANA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC D/B/A ARTS FOR LEARNING WNY: $17,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING: $16,450 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES NEW YORK INC: $14,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetArts Education Connection San Diego: $12,450 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAbilene Chamber of Commerce: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES OF VIRGINIA INC: $6,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION: $5,550 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Audiences of Northeast Texas Inc: $5,400 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Nordson Corporati…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Nordson Corporation FoundationOH13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Young Audiences Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Young Audiences Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Young Audiences of Oregon Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Connecticut: 14% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Maryland Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Young Audiences of New Jersey Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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