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SOUND AFFECTS DBA MUSIC BEATS CANCER

SOUND AFFECTS DBA MUSIC BEATS CANCER (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,100 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 0 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
$242k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$100k
Net assets
$-88377
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Sound Affects Dba Music Beats Cancer does

Mission

Sound affects is a nonprofit organization dedicated to changing how the war on cancer is fought and financed. We support a crowdfunding platform to connect individuals seeking dramatically improved outcomes with bio-entrepreneurs actively working towards cures. We strategically partner with celebrity and amateur musical artists to promote our approach to revolutionizing the war on cancer. Music is our metaphorical torch.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Sound affects offers a model for redefining our social contract for the war on cancer. Central to this, we believe the public can and must play a greater role in shaping a more innovative approach to fighting cancer. Our mission is to increase promising treatments in the pipeline by empowering individuals to directly support bio-entrepreneurs, translating research into groundbreaking cancer solutions.

    $163,504 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $163,504.

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 ($40k) Expenses 100 ($40k) Net assets -2482 ($-68025)2018 Revenue 116 ($46k) Expenses 99 ($39k) Net assets -2222 ($-60906)2019 Revenue 108 ($43k) Expenses 71 ($28k) Net assets -1676 ($-45928)2020 Revenue 144 ($58k) Expenses 146 ($58k) Net assets -1692 ($-46379)2021 Revenue 432 ($173k) Expenses 310 ($124k) Net assets 100 ($3k)2022 Revenue 528 ($211k) Expenses 464 ($185k) Net assets 1054 ($29k)2023 Revenue 531 ($212k) Expenses 877 ($349k) Net assets -3949 ($-108243)2024 Revenue 606 ($242k) Expenses 553 ($220k) Net assets -3224 ($-88377)
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Revenue (606)Expenses (553)Net assets (-3224)Peer revenue range

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 $99k to $18k (−82%).

$21k
$23k
$30k
$44k
$93k
$99k
$18k
$55k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SOUND AFFECTS DBA MUSIC BEATS CANCER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$131
’17
$7k
’18
$15k
’19
−$451
’20
$49k
’21
$26k
’22
−$137k
’23
$22k
’24
2.7
months of
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

Mona Jhaveri

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed333
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 2 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 SOUND AFFECTS DBA MUSIC BEATS CANCER’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

SOUND AFFECTS DBA MUSIC BEATS CANCER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 SOUND AFFECTS DBA MUSIC BEATS CANCER.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

100% of SOUND AFFECTS DBA MUSIC BEATS CANCER'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 $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 1 state.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k 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

SOUND AFFECTS DBA MUSIC BEATS CANCER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve2.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 20%Fundraising 6%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

80%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOUND AFFECTS DBA MUSIC BEATS CANCER?
SOUND AFFECTS DBA MUSIC BEATS CANCER (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,100 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 0 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 SOUND AFFECTS DBA MUSIC BEATS CANCER have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $100,100 in grants to SOUND AFFECTS DBA MUSIC BEATS CANCER.
Who is the largest funder of SOUND AFFECTS DBA MUSIC BEATS CANCER?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUND AFFECTS DBA MUSIC BEATS CANCER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2 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