New York · Nonprofit
SING FOR HOPE INC
SING FOR HOPE INC (New York) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,592,803 to it, the largest being ARNHOLD FOUNDATION INC ($2,185,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Sing for Hope Inc does
Mission
Sing for hope harnesses the power of the arts to create a better world. Our creative programs bring hope, healing, and connection to millions of people in hospitals, schools, care facilities, and public spaces worldwide. A non-profit organization founded in new york city in response to the events of 9/11, sing for hope partners with hundreds of community-based organizations, mobilizes thousands of artists in creative service, and produces artist-created sing for hope pianos across the united states and around the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sing for hope's education program provides dynamic arts classes, workshops, and standards- based initiatives that inspire positive action and uplift youth, educators, and communities. The program is centered on our signature global goals arts curriculum, a creative-service-learning initiative that uses the arts to drive awareness and action for the united nations global goals for sustainable development, 17 interlinked objectives adopted by the un in 2020 to serve as "a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet." our education initiatives include the sing for hope handaharmony youth chorus and the sing for hope lab, which provides daily in-school and after-school arts classes for youth in the bronx and southern westchester.
$634,553 spent$80,431 earned by the program22% of program spendingSing for hope's public health and wellbeing program co-creates research-based arts interventions that foster wellness and connection in partnership with hospitals, care facilities, community centers, and public spaces. Designed for systemic impact, our work supports individuals, organizations, and communities.
$1,257,344 spent$509,582 earned by the program43% of program spendingThe sing for hope pianos (sfh pianos) is a global arts program that creates artist-designed pianos, places them in public spaces for everyone to enjoy, then transports and activates them year-round in schools, hospitals, and community centers worldwide. Sing for hope has provided more pianos for under-resourced public schools than any other organization in the world.
$1,000,638 spent$127,700 earned by the program35% of program spendingSing for hope's cultural diplomacy program provides creative advocacy, leadership, and program design that drive the integration of the arts in policy, peace-building, and global convenings on social change. In addition to curating the first-ever arts panel at the skoll world forum for social entrepreneurship at oxford university, sing for hope has presented cultural diplomacy programming for organizations including aspen ideas festival, harvard university, the fletcher school at tufts university, the kennedy center, and the united nations, where sfh has partnered with unicef and the high-level political forum since 2019. Sing for hope is the official cultural partner of the world summit of nobel peace laureates.sing for hope's creative workforce development program is the engine that powers all of our programming through a sustainable, artist-centered approach to public health, creative aging, and community wellbeing. The program supports artists as creative placemakers and arts-in-health practitioners in an approach that fosters connection, safety, and belonging. In collaboration with expert trainers and researchers, artist partners gain the tools to co-create inclusive arts…
$5,000 earned by the program
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,892,535.
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 $2.8M to $7.2M (+153%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 14% · 2022 9% · 2023 13% · 2024 6% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of SING FOR HOPE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Rochelle King
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $611k → $1.6M.
15 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 SING FOR HOPE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
SING FOR HOPE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 27% · 2019 44% · 2020 26% · 2021 26% · 2022 30% · 2023 32% — growing more concentrated.
“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
32% of SING FOR HOPE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
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
84% of SING FOR HOPE INC'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. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SING FOR HOPE INC's funding base is broadening — from 20 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SING FOR HOPE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $56k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$46k
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 SING FOR HOPE 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SING FOR HOPE 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 SING FOR HOPE INC?
- SING FOR HOPE INC (New York) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,592,803 to it, the largest being ARNHOLD FOUNDATION INC ($2,185,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SING FOR HOPE INC have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $10,592,803 in grants to SING FOR HOPE INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SING FOR HOPE INC?
- ARNHOLD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SING FOR HOPE 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.
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 59 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