Texas · Nonprofit
YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON
YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,228,008 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($651,345). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Young Audiences Inc of Houston does
Mission
The mission of Young Audiences of Houston is to educate and inspire children through the arts, to make the arts an integral part of the school curriculum, and to advance the field of arts in education through professional development and community partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
ARTS and CULTURAL PERFORMANCES: Young Audiences of Houston offers, diverse arts in education performance programming for students in an assembly setting. These innovative programs introduce students to the arts through a balance of demonstrations and student interaction. All programs are aligned with the Texas State curricula (TEKS) and offers curriculum ties, classroom activities and discussion ideas, extension activities, program goals and objectives, vocabulary words, and teacher/parent resources. ARTS-INTEGRATION RESIDENCIES: Young Audiences of Houston residencies are tailored to each site and offer experiences implemented by specially trained artists in dance, music, theatre and visual arts/digital media. Young Audiences of Houston arts-integration experts create and deliver programming options that align core-curriculum concepts and the arts. With campus educations, teaching artist co-deliver arts based strategies that support the educational goals of the campus and students. ARTS IN EDUCATION WORKSHOPS: One time, hands-on workshops bring individual artist into a classroom setting where they encourage students to actively discover their creative potential. During the…
$469,715 spent$338,902 earned by the program54% of program spendingARTS-PROMISE PROGRAMS: Young Audiences of Houston's Art-Promise initiative specifically supports students who struggle in a traditional education setting. Often they are creative and inventive learners who need a vehicle for their own inspiration through the arts. Approximately 99% of the children served are designated at-risk for academic failure; this research-based intervention provides a positive outlet for youth. COME AND EXPLORE, SUMMER BRIDGE PROGRAM: This program is an innovative approach to systemic issues around access and equity for underserved communities, schools, and children in Houston. Through mentor leadership teams comprised of area high school students and local teaching artists and community arts partner organizations, students are supported through grade level and academically assigned content that allows for a personalized learning approach to education. The Come and Explore network of collaborative experiences provide children and their families with both in the program and at-home activities to reduce barriers to summer learning loss and engages a whole-child approach to learning and creativity. Young Audiences of Houston's programs serve 87% economically…
$186,105 spent$74,948 earned by the program21% of program spendingHEALING ARTS PROGRAMS: For more than 35 years our organization has partnered with local children's hospitals and specialized treatment centers serving children to provide free Young Audiences of Houston programming for children undergoing treatment. The goal of Young Audiences of Houston's Healing arts programming is to use the tremendous power of the arts to spread joy, give hope, manage pain, support treatment, and leave positive memories for hospitalized children and their caregivers. In addition, many hospitalized children are required to be out of school for extended periods of time. Young Audiences' Healing Arts programs also serve homeless youth facing challenges and tackling issues; the arts become a valuable tool for creation, discovery, expression, hope, and healing. DISCOVERY ARTS PROGRAMS were introduced in response to the community's need for specialized art programming for children with learning differences and/or physical disabilities, such as those associated with Autism, ADHD, Down syndrome, and cerebral palsy, among other causes. Young Audiences of Houston aligns program content with Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) academic standards, exposing youth to a vast…
$212,224 spent$85,805 earned by the program24% of program spendingYAH ASSISTANCE FUND: the Young Audiences of Houston Assistance Fund was established in 2007, and is used to directly sponsor, either in part or in full requested Young Audiences of Houston programs in schools or community venues in the greatest financial need. A priority of the Fund is to support venues with limited access to the arts and where the impact of a Young Audiences of Houston program will have heightened and lasting results.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $868,044.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $3.6M to $4.5M (+24%).
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 13% · 2021 28% · 2022 38% · 2023 8% · 2024 16% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Katherine Veletsos
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $277k → $594k.
4 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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 OF HOUSTON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
47% 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 AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 48% · 2019 51% · 2020 16% · 2021 21% · 2022 17% · 2023 34% — 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.
How long its funders stay
46% of YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
91% of YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $178k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 OF HOUSTON runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $180k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$160k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$20k
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 OF HOUSTON
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON?
- YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,228,008 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($651,345). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $3,228,008 in grants to YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON?
- Houston Arts Alliance is the largest funder on record, with $651,345 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 52 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