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Songs for Smiles Inc

Songs for Smiles Inc (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $222 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($222). 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 FY2020
$2k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$222
Net assets
$6k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Songs for Smiles Inc does

Mission

Our goal is to unite childrens musicians with their local childrens hospitals across America! Our mission is to improve the quality of life of all children (and their parents) with any special needs, illnesses or disabilities in hospitals, schools and rehabilitation centers using the joy and therapeutic benefits of professionally performed live concerts to enhance well-being, reduce stress and create diversions from their immediate worries...... and simply smile!

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.

Program

We received a grant from a prominent philanthropic institution establishing not only necessary organization seed funding but also establishing our credibility as an important organization to help children with Special Needs. This funding allowed us to create a fully interactive web and mobile platform to automate the process of connecting musicians to perform live concerts for special needs children. We performed and participated in over 100 live shows for children with Special Needs continuing to help us reach our goals and setting us on a path to continue our mission across the United States.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

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 ($815) Expenses 100 ($659) Net assets 100 ($6k)2018 Revenue 206 ($2k) Expenses 99 ($652) Net assets 117 ($7k)2019 Revenue 5 ($40) Expenses 101 ($665) Net assets 107 ($6k)2020 Revenue 212 ($2k) Expenses 258 ($2k) Net assets 107 ($6k)
2017201820192020
Revenue (212)Expenses (258)Net assets (107)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $6k to $7k (+17%).

$6k
$7k
$6k
$6k
2017201820192020
Total assets

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Songs for Smiles Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$156
’17
$1k
’18
−$625
’19
$26
’20
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $65 → $29.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

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 Songs for Smiles 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 Songs for Smiles 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. $222 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Songs for Smiles Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,155 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,155 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2020

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05Profile & governance

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 Songs for Smiles Inc?
Songs for Smiles Inc (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $222 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($222). 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 Songs for Smiles Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $222 in grants to Songs for Smiles Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Songs for Smiles Inc?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $222 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Songs for Smiles 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), 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