Young Audiences of Indiana Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Summer enrichment through the arts (seta) seta is an initiative that brings arts enrichment to wherever young folks are at all summer long. Partnering with summer schools and summer camps, we provide fun + engaging co-creative experiences in a variety of creative art media. Seta's primary curricular focus is sel, giving some variety to the summer programming with which we are partnering. Seta often culminates with student exhibition and/or a performance by the teaching artist who led the enrichment experience. Artforce - artforce is a three-week summer apprenticeship program that introduces teens to the arts as possible collegiate and career paths. Artforce exposes teens to local colleges, where they participate in studio classes, connect with faculty and students, and engage in campus life prior to high school graduation. They increase their understanding of the arts and gain marketable skills by building portfolios under the guidance of professional, practicing artists. The teen apprentices will also participate in career-building and college-readiness activities. During the third week of the program the apprentices are able to connect the knowledge and skills they had been building by presenting their work in a gallery exhibition. Third space - the "third space" program, as we envision it, uses the arts to open up or transform the school environment, setting the stage for students to engage in authentic and meaningful learning. The artwork not only activates the physical space but, principally, acts as a provocation, stoking students' curiosity and prompting lively class discussions. Cultural historian lisa panayotidis referred to this third space of inquiry as "the provocation of seeing." panayotidis equated seeing with "critically-thinking through the world," in which students are incited to question how art is made and exists in a larger context.raise - raise is a five-year, multi-state project designed to address the current, urgent needs of young learners through forging a new model of development and partnership for teaching artists and school support teams, who work together on in-depth, customized, trauma-informed and culturally responsive-sustaining arts in education residencies. The project is funded by the u.s. Department of education. After school programs sometimes referred to "out of school time" to allude to its breadth, after school programs encompass a wide variety of programming taking place outside of the traditional school day. As with our other programming, we are providing creative workshops, residences, performances, and installation work for spaces where kids are already at. This includes aftercare programs, afterschool club weekend programs, free community park programming, family nights, and programming in long-term youth residential spaces.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 95.2%; rating input score 95
• Program expense ratio: 65.7%; rating input score 66
• Fundraising efficiency: $1.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -43.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings