Iowa · Nonprofit
Youth Art Team
Youth Art Team (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $794,500 to it, the largest being MAX AND HELEN GUERNSEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($161,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $318k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $795k
- Net assets
- $344k
What Youth Art Team does
Mission
Encourage youth to develop their creative potential, empowering both personal and social change through lifelong intentional relationships and art.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public Arts Programming - Youth Art Team is an actual team of artists who complete exceptional works of art through a process that values student voices in decision-making. Artists ranged in age from 5-18 and attended 20 different schools. More than half faced challenges related to poverty: all projects bridged gaps in opportunities and relationships; activities and transportation were provided at no cost. Youth Art Team provided a framework for each project, walked artists through processes to determine the direction of their work, and included them in planning for its implementation. The Waterloo United basketball uniform design project was the largest public art project in 2025. Youth Art Team coordinated partnerships among 12 different local organizations and businesses to bring this project to life.
$51,233 spent$3,067 earned by the program36% of program spendingCreative Youth Development - Youth Art Team helped artists navigate adolescence and transition into adulthood. Staff and volunteers worked behind the scenes to address unmet critical needs, providing food, rides, school support, and mentorship. Staff, volunteers, and families saw heightened self-confi dence, improved mental health, and increased participation in extracurricular activities. Artists made project recommendations to staff and informed decisions by serving terms as youth board members with Youth Art Team's Board of Directors. High expectations were set beyond art: artists committed to graduate high school and received support from staff and volunteers in order to do so. Youth Art Team's 2025 senior artists extended the organization's graduation rate to 100% for another year.
$48,215 spent33% of program spendingCreative Job Training - Youth Art Team employed young artists who received job skills training and additional leadership roles during programming such as summer camps. Youth Art Team offered 29 job shadow experiences, customized to individual artist interests, that unveiled a variety of paths through schooling, whether trade school, associates or bachelors, or straight into work. Young artists received real-world artist experience by selling artwork. Youth Art Team's creative job training programs supported artists who (1) continued along their individual pathways toward high school graduation, (2) identified future employment goals, (3) gained professional experiences, (4) identified future employment goals, and (5) opened new doors for themselves beyond adolescence into adulthood.
$44,561 spent31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $144,009.
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 2021 to 2022, from $145k to $252k (+74%).
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: 2021 14% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Youth Art Team’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Heidi Fuchtman
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $145k.
From the IRS filings of Youth Art Team’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 Art Team has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
48% 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 Youth Art Team.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 43% · 2021 30% · 2022 55% · 2023 48% — 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
100% of Youth Art Team's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
84% of Youth Art Team's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Art Team runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Youth Art Team
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 Iowa
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
45%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Youth Art Team: 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 Youth Art Team?
- Youth Art Team (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $794,500 to it, the largest being MAX AND HELEN GUERNSEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($161,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Youth Art Team have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $794,500 in grants to Youth Art Team, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Youth Art Team?
- MAX AND HELEN GUERNSEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $161,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Youth Art Team find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 9 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