New York · Nonprofit
YOUNG AUDIENCES INC
YOUNG AUDIENCES INC (New York) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,865,790 to it, the largest being THE STARR FOUNDATION ($229,250). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What Young Audiences Inc does
Mission
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 thinking potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Arts in education programswith support from the us department of education, ya embarked on year four of a five year research project - responsive arts in school education (raise) - providing professional learning and school-based residency programs partnering with teaching artists and school-based student support teams impacting 27 ya affiliate communities nationwide and initiated year one of five research project - educational advancement through stem education (ease) - providing professional learning and classroom teaching strategies to integrate the arts into math and science curriculum in the southeast united states.
$2,481,082 spent75% of program spendingAffiliate services:ya national and affiliate organizations continued to implement networkwide strategies for sustaining young audiences' core services and programs throughout the country. In doing so, ya programs have become more student centered, outcome based and measurably affective in order to develop the creative learning and life skills of all students.
$773,825 spent$451,265 earned by the program23% of program spendingTeaching artists certification:young audiences' professional learning series provided teaching artists, ya program staff, classroom teachers, volunteers, and experts from the field of arts education the opportunity to participate in content rich, highquality professional learning that emphasizes both artistic excellence and academic rigor. By offering high level professional development opportunites, all participants return to their communities better equipped to meet the significant needs of the diverse communities we serve on an annual basis.
$42,311 spentof which $44,450 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,297,218.
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 2022 to 2023, from $8.1M to $9.5M (+17%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2021 8% · 2022 38% · 2023 55% · 2024 62% · 2025 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of YOUNG AUDIENCES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Nathan W Pearson Jr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $40k → $190k.
7 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $148k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Pro Bono Publico Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money YOUNG AUDIENCES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of YOUNG AUDIENCES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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 AUDIENCES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% 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 62% · 2018 53% · 2019 55% · 2020 36% · 2021 29% · 2022 24% · 2023 26% — 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
60% of YOUNG AUDIENCES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
78% of YOUNG AUDIENCES INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $323k 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 AUDIENCES INC has grown faster than half 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 AUDIENCES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.9M on record — $19.9M federal, $2k state.
- Department of Education$19.7M
- National Endowment for the Arts$200k
- INSTR SUPPORT SERVICES$2k
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 AUDIENCES 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 YOUNG AUDIENCES INC: 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 YOUNG AUDIENCES INC?
- YOUNG AUDIENCES INC (New York) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,865,790 to it, the largest being THE STARR FOUNDATION ($229,250). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUNG AUDIENCES INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $1,865,790 in grants to YOUNG AUDIENCES INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG AUDIENCES INC?
- THE STARR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $229,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG AUDIENCES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 43 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