Nebraska · Nonprofit
YOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC
YOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,824 to it, the largest being Pace Woods Foundation ($24,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $199k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $156k
What Youth Actors Academy of Lincoln Inc does
Mission
The Youth Actors Academy of Lincoln is dedicated to providing high quality theater instruction to the youth of our community without regard to ability, experience, or economic circumstances.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Workshop shows produced during the school year included Pan, Stage Management Camp, Attack of Grasshoppers, Shakespeares Got Talent, Switchermoo, Candy Kingdom, Snow White, Under the Sea, Disney Villains, and Storybook Court. These shows are shorter than mainstage shows but still teach youth to present a theater production in a professional manner. Four need based scholarships in the total amount of $555 were awarded. 208 hours of instruction were given, and 190 students were served.
$27,523 spent43% of program spendingMainstage shows included shows produced during the school year as well as summer camps. They are full productions with sets, choreography, musical direction, and costuming in order to allow students to learn and experience theater. Shows and camps included Mary Poppins Jr, Humor Games, Aladdin Jr, Newsies Jr, Madagasgar Jr, The Little Mermaid Jr, and Shrek Jr. 455 hours of instruction were given, and 235 students were served. 11 need based scholarships were awarded, in the total amount of $3500. A tuition free offering was performed in the summer in the form of a teen only mainstage show titled Sweeney Todd. 22 full scholarships were granted in the total amount of $8800, and the production was funded by a grant.
$36,012 spentof which $10,500 as grants57% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $63,535.
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 2024 to 2025, from $115k to $156k (+36%).
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.
17% of YOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $7k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 YOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC’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
YOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of YOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
YOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like YOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN 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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC?
- YOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,824 to it, the largest being Pace Woods Foundation ($24,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $41,824 in grants to YOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC?
- Pace Woods Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $24,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 5 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