Texas · Nonprofit
Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes
Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes (Texas) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $840,602 to it, the largest being The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation ($154,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $540k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $841k
- Net assets
- $581k
What Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes does
Mission
Swan Songs fulfills musical last wishes by organizing private concerts for individuals with a terminal illness or nearing the end of life. At no cost to the family, a favorite style of music or regional musician is brought directly to the home or care facility. Committed to supporting live music in the community, Swan Songs compensates its musicians for each performance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Swan Songs core program is the fulfillment of musical last wishes through private, personalized concerts. The concerts are available to any patient in a noncurative phase of care in the greater Central Texas area, whether they are in a hospital, care facility or in a private home. The concert requests can be for a specific local or regional musician, a musical genre, style, or instrument that has special meaning to the patient. Swan Songs works diligently to match the request with the appropriate musicians. Musicians are compensated for each performance, and there is no cost to the recipient, their family, or the facility. Trained volunteers attend the concerts on Swan Songs behalf, collect any necessary paperwork, and document the concert.
$457,371 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $457,371.
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 2022 to 2023, from $539k to $690k (+28%).
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: 2021 17% · 2023 1% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
112% of Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Christine Albert
Founder and CEO
Board chair
Dr Joseph Annis
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $21k → $166k.
9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes’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
Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
40% 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 Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 49% · 2019 34% · 2020 26% · 2021 19% · 2022 24% · 2023 18% — 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
67% of Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
81% of Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $270k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes is better cushioned than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
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 Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes
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 Texas
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
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes: 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 Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes?
- Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes (Texas) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $840,602 to it, the largest being The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation ($154,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $840,602 in grants to Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes?
- The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $154,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Swan Songs Musical Last Wishes find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 21 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