New York · Nonprofit
The Unsung NYC Inc The Unsung Collective
The Unsung NYC Inc The Unsung Collective (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $214k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $34k
What The Unsung NYC Inc The Unsung Collective does
Mission
The Unsung Collective serves the New York City community through music and music education experiences for people of color.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Platform for Performers - Provide people of color with opportunities to learn, perform and exercise their musical abilities. Materials, space, sustenance and music necessary for these musicians are provided by the organization, in addition to the services the offer to the public.
$225,888 spent100% of program spendingBridge program / School Partnership The Unsung Collective partners with NYC schools to provide students with experiences and opportunities to perform alongside professional musicians. Children are provided with transportation, music, rehearsal space, and materials to foster their experience of partnership, mentorship, team-building and professional experience.
Gifts to Inner City and Public - As a Harlem-based ensemble, The Unsung Collective provides performances and musical experiences to inner city areas and the public. This is inclusive of materials, performance equipment, instruments, performance space, and services for music production.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $225,888.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $150k to $35k (−77%).
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.
96% of The Unsung NYC Inc The Unsung Collective’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Kevin Bertin
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of The Unsung NYC Inc The Unsung Collective’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 The Unsung NYC Inc The Unsung Collective's grant income comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
The Unsung NYC Inc The Unsung Collective receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Unsung NYC Inc The Unsung Collective
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Unsung NYC Inc The Unsung Collective?
- The Unsung NYC Inc The Unsung Collective (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Unsung NYC Inc The Unsung Collective have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,000 in grants to The Unsung NYC Inc The Unsung Collective.
- Who is the largest funder of The Unsung NYC Inc The Unsung Collective?
- LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Unsung NYC Inc The Unsung Collective 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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