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Young Audiences of Northern California
Young Audiences of Northern California (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $887,012 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($400,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $887k
- Net assets
- $-3505
What Young Audiences of Northern California does
Mission
Young audiences creates art experiences that inspire young people, expand learning, and enliven communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
PROGRAMS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS: YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BRINGS ARTS EDUCATION BACK INTO SCHOOLS AND OTHER LOCATIONS WHERE CHILDREN LIVE, LEARN AND PLAY. WE WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SCHOOLS TO CRAFT AN ARTS PROGRAM THAT FILLS THE GAP BETWEEN WHAT CHILDREN NEED AND WHAT SCHOOLS ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE UNDER CURRENT BUDGET CONSTRAINTS. WORKING WITH MORE THAN 47 TEACHING ARTISTS, WE DEVELOP ARTS PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT ACADEMIC GOALS AS WELL AS SOCIAL AND EXTRA-CURRICULAR GOALS. ALL OF OUR PROGRAMS ALIGN WITH THE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS STANDARDS ISSUED BY THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, BUT THEY ALSO SUPPORT THE 21ST CENTURY SKILL GOALS OF THE COMMON CORE. OUR IN-SCHOOL PROGRAMS INCLUDE ASSEMBLY PERFORMANCE DEMONSTRATIONS, CLASSROOM RESIDENCIES, GRADE-LEVEL WORKSHOPS, AND CLASSROOM TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. IN AN ASSEMBLY PERFORMANCE DEMONSTRATION, A PROFESSIONAL ARTIST PERFORMS FOR A LARGE PORTION OF THE STUDENT BODY. TYPICALLY PRESENTING IN AN AUDITORIUM, MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM, OR CAFETERIA, PERFORMANCE DEMONSTRATIONS AFFORD YOUNG PEOPLE THE CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE LIVE, VIRTUOSIC ART FOR A PERIOD OF 45 MINUTES. IN A CLASSROOM RESIDENCY, A PROFESSIONAL ARTIST…
$456,719 spent$343,260 earned by the program62% of program spendingAssembly performances: assembly performances invited students to experience a professional dance, theater or music program right in their school. These programs were planned as single, school-wide performances, or as two back-to-back performances divided by grade-level.
$156,928 spent$222,093 earned by the program21% of program spendingRESIDENCY PROGRAM: OUR RESIDENCY PROGRAM TRANSFORMS THE CLASSROOM INTO A STUDIO BY BRINGING A TEACHING ARTIST INTO THE STUDENTS' ROUTINE FOR A PERIOD OF 6 TO 16 SESSIONS, OFFERING STUDENTS THE CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE AN ART FORM CLOSE-UP, HANDS-ON AND FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD. RESIDENCIES ARE GEARED TOWARDS FORGING DEEP CONNECTIONS AND FOSTERING CREATIVITY. VERY OFTEN, THE TEACHING ARTIST LINKS THE CONTENT OF RESIDENCY TO SOMETHING THE CLASSROOM TEACHERS ARE WORKING ON IN THE CURRICULUM, OR, SOMETHING THE SCHOOL IS WORKING ON AT-LARGE (SUCH AS LINKING A VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM TO MATH OR SCIENCE TOPICS; OR USING A DRUMMING RESIDENCY TO FOSTER TEAM-BUILDING OR SCHOOL CITIZENSHIP). EVERY RESIDENCY BEGINS WITH A PLANNING MEETING BETWEEN CLASSROOM TEACHERS AND THE TEACHING ARTIST TO ENSURE A SUCCESSFUL, COLLABORATIVE EXPERIENCE. Our residency programs are back to pre-pandemic numbers, yielding enormous benefits on the health and well-being of both students and classroom teachers. In the 2023-24 fiscal year, YANC partnered with 87 individual schools, surpassing our 2022-23 total of 69. We look to sustain these partnerships by providing excellence in program quality and assuring our Arts Access…
$126,851 spent$169,697 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $740,498.
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 2019 to 2020, from $512k to $275k (−46%).
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 12% · 2018 8% · 2019 3% · 2020 9% · 2021 8% · 2022 17% · 2023 23% · 2024 7% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of Young Audiences of Northern California’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. 6 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
John Alecca
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $50k → $86k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Northern California’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 Northern California leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 67% · 2020 77% · 2021 76% · 2022 64% · 2023 58% — 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 Audiences of Northern California's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
68% of Young Audiences of Northern California's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k 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.
Against its field
Young Audiences of Northern California 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
Organizations like Young Audiences of Northern California
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
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 of Northern California: 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 of Northern California?
- Young Audiences of Northern California (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $887,012 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($400,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Young Audiences of Northern California have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $887,012 in grants to Young Audiences of Northern California, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Young Audiences of Northern California?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Young Audiences of Northern California find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 19 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