Louisiana · Nonprofit
YOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC
YOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,401,186 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($380,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $764k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Young Aspirations Young Artists Inc does
Mission
Yaya's mission is to empower creative, new orleans-area young people through visual arts education combined with entrepreneurial and life skills training, equipping them with the skills they need to thrive as leaders. Yaya programs train youth to think creatively, solve problems, manage complex projects, and give back to their community. Since 1988, yaya has served as an incubator for young talent, giving youth the freedom, opportunities, and resources to discover their passions and artistic voices.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ya ya guild: provides visual arts and entrepreneurship training to youth ages 13-25. Participants are encouraged to participate throughout high school and beyond and are trained in a wide range of artistic media, while gaining leadership and life skills to help them thrive in their adult lives, including collaboration, project management, financial literacy, marketing, portfolio/resume development and client relations. The 44 yaya guild members can attend this free program every day afterschool and have opportunities to travel and represent the organization publicly
$134,760 spent28% of program spendingCommunity and family arts: serves youth ages 5-12, and their families with free afterschool visual arts programs, with an emphasis on social and emotional learning and building positive communication skills. This program operates two days per week plus monthly family days and a four week summer camp and served 187 youth and their caregivers in 2024.
$122,229 spent$321 earned by the program26% of program spendingUrban heroes: places ya ya guild alumni as teachers and mentors in schools, for school programs hosted at the yaya arts center, and at community events and festivals, significantly expanding the reach of yaya's visual arts program and providing employment opportunities for our alumni artists. Urban heroes programs reached 287 individuals in 2024.
$122,307 spent$55,064 earned by the program26% of program spendingCreative glass: ya ya creative glass educates the public about glass arts through ya ya's public access glass studio. This program offers fee-based classes, hands on field trips and demonstrations for school groups, and a free monthly glassblowing demonstration and open house, reaching 325 people in 2024.
$99,779 spent$1,424 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $479,075.
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.
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 $2.1M to $2.0M (−8%).
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 12% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $73k → $390k.
6 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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 ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 53% · 2019 44% · 2020 46% · 2021 28% · 2022 23% · 2023 27% — 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
44% of YOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
YOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $512k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding YOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
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 ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS 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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC?
- YOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,401,186 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($380,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,401,186 in grants to YOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC?
- WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $380,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 34 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing