Maryland · Nonprofit
YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC
YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC (Maryland) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $722,402 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($494,509). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $722k
- Net assets
- $409k
What Young Artists of America Inc does
Mission
Young artists of america at strathmore (yaa) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that is reimagining the landscape of arts education by delivering transformative, innovative, and inclusive arts programming to the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Summer performing arts intensives: in june-july 2024, yaa held day and overnight camps for 350+ students, grades 3-12, over five weeks at three campuses: university of maryland college park, university of maryland baltimore county, and our lady of good counsel in olney, md. Programming included acting, dance, voice, and instrumental music. Performances included "willie wonka jr," "bring it on!," "13: the musical jr.," "hadestown," "something rotten" plus dance and acting showcases.
$691,988 spent$705,820 earned by the program52% of program spendingPerformances: fall - in november 2024, 150 students from yaa company, yaa orchestra, and yaa junior performed in "a dream is a wish: disney in concert" at capital one hall in tysons, va; winter - in february 2024, 60 students from yaa company performed in "six: the musical" at the fillmore in silver spring, md. Additionally, in february 2024, 60 students from yaa junior performed "newsies jr." at our lady of good counsel high school in olney, md; spring - in april 2025, 200 students from yaa company, yaa orchestra, and yaa junior performed in "the hunchback of notre dame", at the music center at strathmore.
$632,232 spent$458,515 earned by the program47% of program spendingEducation: from september 2024-may 2025, yaa served 50+ middle and high school students with musical theatre training classes.
$10,841 spent$6,250 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,335,061.
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 2021 to 2022, from $754k to $1.1M (+44%).
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: 2017 9% · 2018 7% · 2019 8% · 2020 12% · 2021 27% · 2022 41% · 2023 20% · 2024 9% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Lisa Larragoite
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $26k → $141k.
7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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
YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 47% · 2020 99% · 2021 75% · 2022 47% · 2023 82% — 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.
How long its funders stay
67% of YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
90% of YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $70k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $652k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states 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
YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $51k on record.
- Grant$51k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC?
- YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC (Maryland) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $722,402 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($494,509). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $722,402 in grants to YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC?
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER is the largest funder on record, with $494,509 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 16 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