New Jersey · Nonprofit
YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC
YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,690,906 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($1,095,362). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What Young Audiences of New Jersey Inc does
Mission
Young Auidiences (YA) mission is to inspire young peope and expand their learning through the arts. Arts education is who we are and what we do. The work of the board, staff, and teaching artists is guided by a vision of a future in which all students in our region engage in high-quality arts experiences as an integral part of their education. YA is committed to providing all children- inclusive of disabilties, neurodiversity, gender diversity, language, economic status, race and ethnicity- with arts education in which their creativity, cultures and identities are valued and nurtured. YA delivers teaching artist-led arts programming directly in schools to pre-k-12th grade students, teachers,and families through residencies, workshops, performances, teacher professional learning, and family programs. Our programs are authentic, learning level appropriate, and culturally responsive arts learning experiences. Since our founding in 1973, YA has grown into the regions largest arts education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Performances/Assemblies: Our performances introduce artforms and provide new and diverse cultural experiences to our audience of students and teachers. We value performance as a vital and powerful component of arts education.: while our stage is a school auditorium, the work is as important and impactful as an event at a performing arts venue. Our 99 performances provide the social connection and intellectual stimulation of seeing a play, concert, or dance performance as part of the school day. We strive to ensure that children value live performance as essential to a full life, cultivating the next generation of performing artists and supporters.
$1,491,356 spentof which $184,806 as grants$797,710 earned by the program53% of program spendingWorkshops/Residencies: Our workshops and residencies transform a classroom into an artist studio and provide hands-on sequential arts learning activities. We offer 78 programs in dance, music, theatre, folk arts, visual arts, and media arts. Professional artists guide students and teachers in active and engaging art-making experiences for 1 to 20 days.
$884,041 spentof which $424,957 as grants$157,455 earned by the program31% of program spendingProfessional Development: Our professional learning programs empower classroom teachers to integrate the arts across the curriculum. We offer embedded and dedicated PL. Embedded PL provides an active role for classroom teachers during workshops as the teaching artists models lessons, demonstrates creative inquiry, and guides the teacher to extend the artistic process beyond the residency. We offer long-term dedicated professional learning programs and sessions available to schools and districts in a range of artforms.
$444,136 spentof which $207,080 as grants$85,520 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,819,533.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.0M to $6.2M (+23%).
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 18% · 2021 26% · 2022 34% · 2023 18% · 2024 24% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Michele Russo
Pres & CEO
Board chair
Stacy Mattia
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $134k → $784k.
5 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 OF NEW JERSEY 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 AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 OF NEW JERSEY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 85% · 2019 60% · 2020 31% · 2021 59% · 2022 43% · 2023 67% — 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
38% of YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
52% of YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY 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 $1.8M that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 OF NEW JERSEY INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY 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 AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY 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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Young Audiences Inc · exempt
- Young Audiences of Eastern PA Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC?
- YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,690,906 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($1,095,362). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $3,690,906 in grants to YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC?
- Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,095,362 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 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