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KEYS CORP

KEYS CORP (New York) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $502,171 to it, the largest being THE TONY STEWART FOUNDATION INC ($49,940). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$449k
Funders on record
39
Grants received
$502k
Net assets
$102k
28/39 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Keys Corp does

Mission

Keys is a nonprofit organization that delivers music, hope and smiles to kids battling cancer, and those in need of healing, through music outreach, education and advocacy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Music outreach: keys provided 4,069 music therapy sessions to 856 children battling cancer/serious illnesses, breast cancer patients and those in need of healing,keys music therapists and musicians recorded 30 new music videos for the keys kids network reaching over 266 children's hospitals and sites across the us. Keys delivered holiday care packages to 198 kids bringing music, hope & smiles to pediatric cancer patients and their siblings at the holidays.

    $372,714 spent
    89% of program spending
  2. Family respite days: keys hosted 6 smile experence family respite days including: slingshot racing experience for 4 keys teens at utica rome speedway; friendly summer fun fest and friendly car show for kids events in hamilton for 45 keys kids and their families, along with over 1,870 families in the community; and the dumac sponsored dream ride experience weekend in connecticut for 1 amazing keys kid and his mom. All of our smile experiences give our keys kids a chance to create precious memories together.

    $44,886 spent
    11% of program spending
  3. Smile concerts: keys hosted 10 smile concerts and 4 backyard concerts that celebrated a keys kid each concert, 5,593 attend the concerts in person and 19,732 people from across the us(and the world)tuned in to share messages of love, joy and hope with keys kids & their families. We also hosted 2 recitals in the spring and at the holidays at our studios where 35 of our keys kids performed for their families (251 family members attended).

    $2,283 spent
    1% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $419,883.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($59k) Expenses 100 ($64k) Net assets 100 ($11k)2018 Revenue 118 ($70k) Expenses 91 ($58k) Net assets 209 ($23k)2019 Revenue 193 ($114k) Expenses 169 ($108k) Net assets 272 ($29k)2020 Revenue 160 ($95k) Expenses 199 ($127k) Net assets 120 ($13k)2021 Revenue 449 ($266k) Expenses 276 ($176k) Net assets 945 ($103k)2022 Revenue 459 ($271k) Expenses 396 ($252k) Net assets 1123 ($122k)2023 Revenue 535 ($316k) Expenses 472 ($301k) Net assets 1261 ($137k)2024 Revenue 619 ($366k) Expenses 631 ($402k) Net assets 929 ($101k)2025 Revenue 759 ($449k) Expenses 703 ($448k) Net assets 939 ($102k)
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Revenue (759)Expenses (703)Net assets (939)Peer revenue range

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 $103k to $175k (+71%).

$11k
$23k
$29k
$61k
$103k
$175k
$178k
$130k
$119k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

90% of KEYS CORP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
$12k
’18
$7k
’19
−$32k
’20
$89k
’21
$19k
’22
$15k
’23
−$36k
’24
$1k
’25
1.6
months of
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.

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Listed665555557
Joined·+0+1+1+0+0+0+0+3
No longer listed·02100001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $16k → $89k.

4 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 KEYS CORP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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

KEYS CORP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

36% 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 KEYS CORP.

10%
largest funder
24%
top three
~21
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 58% · 2019 35% · 2020 37% · 2021 16% · 2022 21% · 2023 11% — 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

58% of KEYS CORP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

73% of KEYS CORP's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
IN
PA
CT
CA
UT
MO
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KEYS CORP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve1.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding KEYS CORP receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $814k on record.

State$814k
Top programs
  • Pmts-Local Gov't-Pub Sch Ed$814k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like KEYS CORP

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KEYS CORP: 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 KEYS CORP?
KEYS CORP (New York) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $502,171 to it, the largest being THE TONY STEWART FOUNDATION INC ($49,940). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KEYS CORP have?
IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $502,171 in grants to KEYS CORP, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KEYS CORP?
THE TONY STEWART FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $49,940 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KEYS CORP 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 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