Totals
- Total revenue
- $211,695
- Total expenses
- $211,413
- Contributions and grants received
- $211,311
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $384
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $158,669
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $158,669
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $182,560
- Management and general expenses
- $10,823
- Fundraising expenses
- $18,030
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $182,560
Program services were 86.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1a · Federated campaigns
$0
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1b · Membership dues
$0
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1c · Fundraising events
$0
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1d · Related organizations
$0
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$25,000
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$186,311
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$0
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2a · Program service revenue: Miscellaneous Program Revenue
total $384 · related or exempt $384 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $0 · personal property $0
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $0 · other assets $0
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8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0 · program services $0
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0 · program services $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0 · program services $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0 · program services $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $68,290 · program services $51,218 · management and general $8,536 · fundraising $8,536
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $108,876 · program services $101,476 · management and general $0 · fundraising $7,400
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $9,270 · program services $7,990 · management and general $640 · fundraising $640
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11a · Fees: management
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $150 · program services $150 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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14 · Information technology
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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15 · Royalties
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $10,056 · program services $10,056 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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17 · Travel
total $1,080 · program services $1,080
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $465 · program services $465 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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20 · Interest
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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23 · Insurance
total $4,163 · program services $4,163 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24a · Other expenses: Programs Software
total $2,692 · program services $2,692 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24b · Other expenses: Miscellaneous Programs Expenses
total $870 · program services $870 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24c · Other expenses: Trauma-Informed Care Training
total $2,400 · program services $2,400 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24d · Other expenses: Miscellaneous Administrative/Fundraising Costs
total $3,101 · program services $0 · management and general $1,647 · fundraising $1,454
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $158,387 · end of year $158,669
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $0
-
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
12 · Investments: other securities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
14 · Intangible assets
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
18 · Grants payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
21 · Escrow or custodial account liability
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
-
25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $0
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $146,387 · end of year $143,669
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $12,000 · end of year $15,000
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Hear Your Song empowers children and teens living with serious illnesses and complex health needs to make their voices heard through collaborative songwriting. At the heart of our work is a "kid-driven," totally individualized process that puts every child and teen in our community - youth who live with physical and mental health diagnoses that so often deprive them of power and choice - in complete creative control. Hear Your Song supports youth songwriters through partnerships with children's hospitals and nursing homes, summer camps, schools, and diagnosis-specific organizations.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Hear Your Song empowers children and teens living with serious illnesses and complex health needs to make their voices heard through collaborative songwriting.
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Hear Your Song's central program service is our Collaborative Songwriting Program for youth with serious illnesses and complex health needs ages 6-18. In 2025, Hear Your Song served over 210 kids through partnerships with children's hospitals, nonprofits, schools, and camp programs. Hear Your Song created peer songwriting groups, live performance opportunities, and virtual song premiere events to strengthen the community of youth participating in programming and to deepen relationships among families, partner organizations, volunteers, and youth songwriters. Through our Duet-A-Doc project, youth songwriters collaborated with their longtime medical professionals to create songs together. Hear Your Song also mentored undergraduate students and other volunteers across the United States to lead songwriting sessions. Associated accomplishments include the amplification of youth songwriters' songs and voices so that their creative work can be celebrated and shared by a wide audience.
Expenses $182,560 · Revenue $182,803
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Dan Rubins
Executive Director and Co-Founder
- Total calculated
- $68,290
- From this org
- $68,290
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Max Sauberman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Carla Hojaiban
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Suzanne Clifton Walsh
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Susan Drew
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Dr Veronica LoFaso
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Rebecca Brudner
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Ben Lobley
Treasurer & Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 16 December 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.0
- Source object
- 202610159349300326
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