New York · Nonprofit
LIFEBEAT INC co Burton Goldstein & Co LLC
LIFEBEAT INC co Burton Goldstein & Co LLC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,610 to it, the largest being ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $16k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $123k
- Net assets
- $0
What LIFEBEAT INC co Burton Goldstein & Co LLC does
Mission
LIFEbeat, Inc., was formed to provide assistance to people living with AIDS and HIV and to help educate people on HIV prevention. Lifebeat, Music Fights HIV/AIDS, founded in 1992, is a leading national nonprofit dedicated to educating Americas youth (13-24) about HIV/AIDS prevention. Lifebeat mobilizes the talents and resources of the music industry to deliver HIV/AIDS and STDs awareness messages through broadcast, print, social and digital media, and distributes educational literature and condoms at concert venues, music festivals, clubs and other events. Lifebeat also provides quality of life services and support, such as musical performances, for people living with HIV/AIDS and their families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
LIFEbeat engages in celebrities and entertainers in promoting sexual health awareness. Coordinating between hundreds of the nation's top music venues and local community health nonprofits, LIFEbeat brought sexual health volunteers out to concerts across the United States to speak with fans about their sexual safety. Volunteers distributed thousands of condoms and other safe sex materials, and engaged countless at-risk music fans in vital conversations about gender, sexuality, consent, prevention and support. Additionally, hundreds of thousands more were engaged in digital communication and unique promotional initiatives through celebrity partnerships.In 2024, LIFEBeat is in the process of dissolution, and subject to New York's Attorney General, its programs will continue under the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.In 2024, LIFEBeat will be dissolved and its programs will continue under the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.
$18,430 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,430.
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 $243k to $82k (−66%).
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.
100% of LIFEBEAT INC co Burton Goldstein & Co LLC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Josh Fromson
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $51k → $32k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 LIFEBEAT INC co Burton Goldstein & Co LLC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
LIFEBEAT INC co Burton Goldstein & Co LLC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 LIFEBEAT INC co Burton Goldstein & Co LLC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 58% · 2023 47% — 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
81% of LIFEBEAT INC co Burton Goldstein & Co LLC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
LIFEBEAT INC co Burton Goldstein & Co LLC has grown faster than half of the 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like LIFEBEAT INC co Burton Goldstein & Co LLC
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.
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIFEBEAT INC co Burton Goldstein & Co LLC?
- LIFEBEAT INC co Burton Goldstein & Co LLC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,610 to it, the largest being ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFEBEAT INC co Burton Goldstein & Co LLC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $122,610 in grants to LIFEBEAT INC co Burton Goldstein & Co LLC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFEBEAT INC co Burton Goldstein & Co LLC?
- ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFEBEAT INC co Burton Goldstein & Co LLC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing