Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
YOU BE YOU INC
YOU BE YOU INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being THE GRABLE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $8k
What You Be You Inc does
Mission
We provide free and low-cost social emotional learning aligned community music education at our main location in Millvale and surrounding areas. Our main programs in 2024 have included the Millvale Children's Chorus, a youth music club in the Northview Heights neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and our summer camps, which hosted 120 campers at no cost. All of the listed programs were grant-funded or contracted from a partnering organization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our Neighborhood Music Empowerment Project takes a systemic approach to uplifting K-12 youth through free creative space-making. This programming series responds directly to community needs, identified in partnership with community partners like the Millvale Community Library and community social worker Alyssa Peters, using music as a tool for community healing and youth voice. This program served roughly 50 students weekly between October 20th 2024 and December 31st 2024. Our programs are intentionally designed to welcome new students so that there is rolling enrollment at any time. This program was funded by a grant from the Grable Foundation to cover the 24-25 academic year. This program offered a series of developmentally accessible enrichment activities. One offering was The Millvale Children's Chorus, which served 20 students (kindergarten through 5th grade) each week during the timeline listed above. Students selected songs, learned to sing in harmony as a group, and performed in front of 100 people at a holiday event. Our Junior Rock Band class served 8 students weekly and provided instruction on drums, bass, guitar, keyboard, and ukulele. The class (ages kindergarten…
$13,000 spentof which $13,000 as grants58% of program spendingTaking place in Pittsburgh Housing Authority's Northview Heights Apartments, The Musician Scholars Program blended ukulele instruction, chorus, and beatmaking with social-emotional aligned lyric-writing activities for students in grades 3rd-5th through weekly after-school instruction. Each class also provided a full dinner to each student, for a total of 600 free meals. Despite experiencing a trauma of our site being burned down, our program persisted and we were able to continue our program through the year with no interruptions.
$1,000 spent4% of program spendingOur private lesson program offers affordable, reduced, and free lessons to youth. We provided 52 students with private instruction on ukulele, piano, guitar, songwriting, and music production. Despite being our only paid program, 30% of students received either a partial or full scholarship to high quality lessons. 96% of students stayed enrolled for 9 months or more.
$0 spent0% of program spendingWe developed programs for students registered for special education services and medical complexities through partnerships with Pittsburgh Public Schools, Western PA School for Blind Children, and the borough of Etna.
$8,600 spentof which $8,600 as grants38% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $22,600.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $15k to $8k (−50%).
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.
28% of YOU BE YOU INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Georgia English
Executive director, president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 YOU BE YOU 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.
Where its funders are
100% of YOU BE YOU INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania 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
YOU BE YOU INC has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like YOU BE YOU 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOU BE YOU 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 YOU BE YOU INC?
- YOU BE YOU INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being THE GRABLE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOU BE YOU INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to YOU BE YOU INC.
- Who is the largest funder of YOU BE YOU INC?
- THE GRABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOU BE YOU INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2024–2025), 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