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YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON

EIN 74-6082602 HOUSTON, TX

Revenue 2023
$1,696,084
Expenses 2023
$1,143,089

Program services were 94.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B112
Classification
2000
Street
675 BERING DR STE 300

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

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.

Activities or mission (Part I)

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.

  • 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 2022-2023 year, Young Audiences served 254,670 children through 3,918 Programs at 218 sites, in partnership with 186 artists.

    Expenses $806,420 · Revenue $518,482

  • ARTS-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 93% 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 disadvantaged children, 89% at Title 1 Schools, and 38% English Language Learners.

    Expenses $161,284 · Revenue $103,096

  • HEALING ARTS PROGRAMS: For more than 30 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.

    Expenses $107,523 · Revenue $69,131

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • W Wells McGee

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Katherine Veletsos

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Sanvita Sample

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Rodolfo Cooper III

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Josie Morgan

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Elizabeth Karkowsky

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Judy Liu

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brea May

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Megan Schmid

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Sharp

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kelly Gerstenhaber

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Donna Haynes

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leslie D Blanton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JaNeika Smith Boone

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alexa Valencia

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,696,084
    Expenses
    $1,143,089
    Contributions
    $925,626
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,630,281
    Expenses
    $1,339,344
    Contributions
    $875,359
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,569,542
    Expenses
    $903,657
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,616,975

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $875,713
    Expenses
    $596,162
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,119,610

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $803,254
    Expenses
    $735,988
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,843,307

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.