California · Nonprofit
SEEN AND HEARD
SEEN AND HEARD (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $590,865 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($269,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $502k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $591k
- Net assets
- $450k
What Seen and Heard does
Mission
Seen & Heard seeks to develop the professional character of system-impacted youth through performing arts training.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Students cultivate professional interpersonal skills though trauma informed, evidence-based programming. Open to system-impacted youth ages 16-23.Phase One is ten weeks. During this phase, cohorts meet weekly to work, practice and create together. Everyone is needed and everyone is valued. Two trauma informed teachers guide youth through concepts like mindfulness, emotional control, effective communication, and self-confidence with drama at the center of every lesson. At the end of Phase One, students present scenes theyve been working on in a low-key open house with supporters they invite. Then, they journey on together towards Phase Two.Phase Two is eight weeks. Students remain in the same cohort to deepen relationships and build upon concepts from Phase One, while also adding more advanced skills. Phase Two focuses on active listening, achievement motivation, coping ahead, and stress management. These skills are developed though acting exercises and personal creations, with group de-briefs throughout. At the end of Phase Two, youth have the opportunity to participate in a graduation reception where student projects are shared and accomplishments recognized publicly.Seen & Heard…
$324,526 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $324,526.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $317k to $409k (+29%).
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.
97% of SEEN AND HEARD’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. 1 of the last 5 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
Regan Williams
CEO
Board chair
Anthony Conley
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $22k → $81k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 SEEN AND HEARD’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
SEEN AND HEARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 SEEN AND HEARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 88% · 2023 49% — 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
85% of SEEN AND HEARD'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. Of the $87k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $504k 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.
Against its field
SEEN AND HEARD holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SEEN AND HEARD
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEEN AND HEARD: 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 SEEN AND HEARD?
- SEEN AND HEARD (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $590,865 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($269,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SEEN AND HEARD have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $590,865 in grants to SEEN AND HEARD, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEEN AND HEARD?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $269,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEEN AND HEARD 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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