Michigan · Nonprofit
SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER
SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,200 to it, the largest being L G KAUFMAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($24,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $144k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $71k
- Net assets
- $141k
What Superior Arts Youth Theater does
Mission
To empower young people through performance arts, education, and the creation of outstanding theatrical and musical art
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Superior Arts Youth Theater (say theater) is open to youth from ages 3 to 18 years old and produces a series of performances and workshops ranging from full productions at forest roberts theatre and lake superior theater to community events and special performances. Throughout the year over 300 youth participated in the productions and events, which included: the lightning thief: the percy jackson musical, two gentlemen of verona, the reluctant dragon, anne of green gables, junie b jones jr, and finding nemo jr. And 2024 camps in marquette, michigan, and negaunee michigan.
$119,562 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $119,562.
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 $231k to $144k (−38%).
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.
19% of SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER’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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $8k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER’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
SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 56% · 2019 63% · 2020 45% · 2021 58% · 2022 42% · 2023 66% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200 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
SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER?
- SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,200 to it, the largest being L G KAUFMAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($24,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $71,200 in grants to SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER?
- L G KAUFMAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $24,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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