Louisiana · Nonprofit
STRAUSS YOUTH ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS
STRAUSS YOUTH ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS (Louisiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,693 to it, the largest being JEAN AND SAUL A MINTZ FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $188k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $152k
What Strauss Youth Academy for the Arts does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to provide excellence in theatre arts education for youth, ages 5-18, in Northeast and North-central Louisiana, and to produce high quality theatrical entertainment for the familites of our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Theatrical productions performed for area school audiences (k-12) and for the general public
$65,784 spent69% of program spendingSummer and after school theatrical workshops for youth
$28,272 spent30% of program spendingSales related to theatrical productions
$766 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $94,822.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $105k to $160k (+53%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of STRAUSS YOUTH ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $5k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 STRAUSS YOUTH ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 funders by total. 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
STRAUSS YOUTH ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 95% — diversifying over time.
“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
91% of STRAUSS YOUTH ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $268 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
STRAUSS YOUTH ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like STRAUSS YOUTH ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STRAUSS YOUTH ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS?
- STRAUSS YOUTH ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS (Louisiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,693 to it, the largest being JEAN AND SAUL A MINTZ FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STRAUSS YOUTH ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $16,693 in grants to STRAUSS YOUTH ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STRAUSS YOUTH ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS?
- JEAN AND SAUL A MINTZ FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STRAUSS YOUTH ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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