New York · Nonprofit
HEAR YOUR SONG INC
HEAR YOUR SONG INC (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,703 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK ($113,086). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $212k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $437k
- Net assets
- $159k
What Hear Your Song Inc does
Mission
Hear Your Song empowers children and teens living with serious illnesses and complex health needs to make their voices heard through collaborative songwriting. At the heart of our work is a "kid-driven," totally individualized process that puts every child and teen in our community - youth who live with physical and mental health diagnoses that so often deprive them of power and choice - in complete creative control. Hear Your Song supports youth songwriters through partnerships with children's hospitals and nursing homes, summer camps, schools, and diagnosis-specific organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hear Your Song's central program service is our Collaborative Songwriting Program for youth with serious illnesses and complex health needs ages 6-18. In 2025, Hear Your Song served over 210 kids through partnerships with children's hospitals, nonprofits, schools, and camp programs. Hear Your Song created peer songwriting groups, live performance opportunities, and virtual song premiere events to strengthen the community of youth participating in programming and to deepen relationships among families, partner organizations, volunteers, and youth songwriters. Through our Duet-A-Doc project, youth songwriters collaborated with their longtime medical professionals to create songs together. Hear Your Song also mentored undergraduate students and other volunteers across the United States to lead songwriting sessions. Associated accomplishments include the amplification of youth songwriters' songs and voices so that their creative work can be celebrated and shared by a wide audience.
$182,560 spent$182,803 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $182,560.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $148k to $158k (+7%).
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: 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HEAR YOUR SONG INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Dan Rubins
Executive Director and Co-Founder
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $10k → $116k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 HEAR YOUR SONG 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
HEAR YOUR SONG INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
47% 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 HEAR YOUR SONG INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 39% · 2022 37% · 2023 32% — 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.
Where its funders are
HEAR YOUR SONG INC draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
HEAR YOUR SONG INC is better cushioned than half of the 8,464 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HEAR YOUR SONG 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEAR YOUR SONG INC: 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 HEAR YOUR SONG INC?
- HEAR YOUR SONG INC (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,703 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK ($113,086). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEAR YOUR SONG INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $436,703 in grants to HEAR YOUR SONG INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEAR YOUR SONG INC?
- FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK is the largest funder on record, with $113,086 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEAR YOUR SONG INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 24 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