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Sound Mind Live Inc

Sound Mind Live Inc (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $737,893 to it, the largest being SOZOSEI FOUNDATION INC ($300,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$904k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$738k
Net assets
$-229897
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What Sound Mind Live Inc does

Mission

The mission of Sound Mind Live is to foster community, open dialogue, and action on mental health through the power of music.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The production of events, concerts, podcast, video, and other content that leverage the power of music to build community and open dialogue around mental health, and elevate critical mental health resources. In 2022 our programs reached 1.6 million people in partnership with more than 60 artists advocating for mental health dialogue and action. 85% of our audience reported they can have more open, honest conversations about mental health as a result of our programs, and 86% of youth reported feeling a reduced sense of "otherness" related to mental health issues as a result of our programs.In 2024 we opened a community center that has already served over 3,000 people in theNew York City and surrounding area.

    $788,472 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $788,472.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($241k) Expenses 100 ($157k) Net assets 100 ($99k)2021 Revenue 226 ($545k) Expenses 297 ($465k) Net assets 181 ($178k)2022 Revenue 333 ($802k) Expenses 569 ($892k) Net assets 90 ($88k)2023 Revenue 295 ($711k) Expenses 572 ($897k) Net assets -98 ($-96701)2024 Revenue 375 ($904k) Expenses 661 ($1.0M) Net assets -233 ($-229897)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (375)Expenses (661)Net assets (-233)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 $300k to $52k (−83%).

$117k
$311k
$300k
$52k
$188k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

90% of Sound Mind Live Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,932 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$84k
’20
$80k
’21
−$90k
’22
−$186k
’23
−$133k
’24
1.9
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed69999
Joined·+3+1+0+0
No longer listed·0100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $142k → $135k.

1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 Mind Live 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.

How concentrated its funding is

Sound Mind Live Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

38% 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 Mind Live Inc.

41%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 86% · 2021 87% · 2022 33% · 2023 74% — 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

50% of Sound Mind Live Inc's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

Sound Mind Live Inc draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.

NY
NJ
CA
DE
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k 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 Mind Live Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,769 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)39% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,769 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding Sound Mind Live Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.

Federal$25k
grants $25kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$25k

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 Sound Mind Live 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 24%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sound Mind Live 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 Sound Mind Live Inc?
Sound Mind Live Inc (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $737,893 to it, the largest being SOZOSEI FOUNDATION INC ($300,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Sound Mind Live Inc have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $737,893 in grants to Sound Mind Live Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sound Mind Live Inc?
SOZOSEI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sound Mind Live 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 8 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