Minnesota · Nonprofit
ROCK THE CAUSE INC
ROCK THE CAUSE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $264 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($264). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $102k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $264
- Net assets
- $0
What Rock the Cause Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to engage others to become involved in their communities through volunteerism. We achieve this goal through volunteer drives, music downloads on our record label, live concert events, and classroom workshops in colleges and high schools.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our recording label income allowed us to make grants to organizations like Children's Cancer Research Fund, Sexual Violence Center MN, High School for Recording Arts, and others. Our charities report that they benefit from residual direct donations from donors who discover their cause, by learning about them first through a Rock the Cause digital music stream, download, or CD. Rock the Cause music releases were streamed over 4 million times in 2024. That is a significant amount of consumer interaction. Our music releases are monetized on all digital platforms to capture revenues that we in-turn grant to charitable organizations as decided by our officers and stakeholders. We also use our label to support artists who want to expand their audience through radio and social media marketing. We also mentor opportunity youth in real world internships doing marketing, distribution and PR
$21,500 spentof which $21,500 as grants23% of program spendingIn 2024 we spent an entire year at High School for Recording Arts a charter based in Saint Paul, MN that serves under-served children and high school dropouts. We conducted an in-classroom workforce training program for media occupations that teaches students job skills like how e-commerce works, digital distribution, podcasting, copyright, branding, or how to write a press release and media servicing. We also covered subjects like nonprofit careers and entertainment law and servicing learning. Once the students were trained on this knowledge they worked directly with Rock the Cause staff and volunteers to release music singles and student-made compilations on the High School for Recording Arts Record Label. We also developed a paid internship program giving vulnerable populations of youth the opportunity to participate in vocational discovery. Our CEO was awarded the Ramsey County Vern Vick Award for youth workforce development. We worked with over 35 low income youth who are from underserved and marginalized communities. We also placed 15 youth in jobs working in media Occupations. We also offered paid internship training to 15 youth helping to ease financial burdens and create…
$45,413 spentof which $45,413 as grants48% of program spendingRock the Cause was continued in our role of education facilitation for a media occupations training program for youth in partnership with High School for Recording Arts & ReConnect Rondo. We mentored over 12 youth in content creation for the Voices of Rondo Youth Podcast and assisted with youth centered community organizing.
$27,978 spentof which $27,978 as grants29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $94,891.
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 2017 to 2018, from $5k to $23 (−100%).
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.
16% of ROCK THE CAUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Scott Herold
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $109 → $35.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ROCK THE CAUSE 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ROCK THE CAUSE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $264 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ROCK THE CAUSE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ROCK THE CAUSE 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROCK THE CAUSE INC?
- ROCK THE CAUSE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $264 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($264). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROCK THE CAUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $264 in grants to ROCK THE CAUSE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCK THE CAUSE INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $264 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCK THE CAUSE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 1 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