California · Nonprofit
GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION
GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,241 to it, the largest being THE MEREDITH AND ROSEMARY WILLSON CHARIT (AKA THE MUSIC MAN FOUNDATION) ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $721k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $266k
- Net assets
- $298k
What Give a Beat Foundation does
Mission
Give a beat's mission is to use the power of music as a pathway to healing and opportunity for those impacted by the criminal justice system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The prison electronic music program provides hands-on learning with software, hardware, and techniques that are used by professionals for music production and djing. These music classes in calif prisons promote healing, self-expression, teamwork, and transferable job skills for those returning to the workforce.
$305,143 spent$224,306 earned by the program56% of program spendingThe youth music production & dj workshop program for incarcerated & at-risk youth. These workshops provide technology skills and promote self-expression, self confidence, empowerment, collaboration, & communication skills.
$197,572 spent$293,101 earned by the program36% of program spendingThe give a beat alumni program is a participant-led initiative for graduates of the prison electronic music program and the "on a new track" mentorship program connecting music industry professionals,providing shared resources,peer support,income generation,and creative opportunities.
$43,672 spent$1,500 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $546,387.
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 2021 to 2022, from $51k to $237k (+370%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 1% · 2022 19% · 2023 12% · 2024 31% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Lauren Segal
President & CEO
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 $12k → $81k.
7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION’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
GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 66% · 2022 79% · 2023 62% — 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
33% of GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% 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
63% of GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,673 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION: 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 GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION?
- GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,241 to it, the largest being THE MEREDITH AND ROSEMARY WILLSON CHARIT (AKA THE MUSIC MAN FOUNDATION) ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $266,241 in grants to GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION?
- THE MEREDITH AND ROSEMARY WILLSON CHARIT (AKA THE MUSIC MAN FOUNDATION) is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION 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 15 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