Tennessee · Nonprofit
SONGWRITINGWITHINC
SONGWRITINGWITHINC (Tennessee) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,052,714 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,163,083). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Songwritingwithinc does
Mission
To transform lives by using collaborative songwriting to build creativity, connections and strengths.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, songwritingwith:soldiers delivered programming helping 1450 individuals (+18%), more than ever before with 303 new songs written. In 2025, sw:s hosted 15 in-person retreats and 153 collaborative songwriting sessions. The 15 in-person retreats served 142 veterans and their families. These included five sw:s signature retreats, six sw:s pathh weekends in collaboration with boulder crest foundation, two special operations couples retreats in collaboration with boulder crest foundation, two sw:s retreats in collaboration with wounded warrior project's couples' odyssey, and one eod all-male retreat with eod warrior foundation, celebrating mental health awareness leaders in the eod technician community.beyond retreats, sw:s delivered 153 collaborative songwriting sessions within warrior pathh programs across 14 locations, serving 1,308 veterans and first responders. The organization also expanded its team by training two new songwriters and two facilitators to deliver sw:s pathh and retreat programs. A new retreat location was established in el paso, tx, where an all-male retreat was held. Additionally, sw:s reviewed and updated its program pre and post surveys and implemented…
$1,630,278 spent$817,456 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,630,278.
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 2023 to 2024, from $685k to $2.2M (+219%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of SONGWRITINGWITHINC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Brian Magerkurth
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $110k → $419k.
12 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 SONGWRITINGWITHINC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
SONGWRITINGWITHINC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 64%; 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 SONGWRITINGWITHINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 50% · 2019 53% · 2020 31% · 2021 75% · 2022 41% · 2023 38% — 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of SONGWRITINGWITHINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
71% of SONGWRITINGWITHINC'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 $893k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
SONGWRITINGWITHINC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SONGWRITINGWITHINC
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Songwitingwithsoldiers Music LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SONGWRITINGWITHINC: 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 SONGWRITINGWITHINC?
- SONGWRITINGWITHINC (Tennessee) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,052,714 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,163,083). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SONGWRITINGWITHINC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $3,052,714 in grants to SONGWRITINGWITHINC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SONGWRITINGWITHINC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,163,083 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SONGWRITINGWITHINC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 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