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SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND

EIN 95-4443269 BREA, CA

Revenue 2025
$2,553,825
Expenses 2025
$3,907,518

Program services were 86.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
G11
Classification
1000
Street
2650 E IMPERIAL HWY

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND CASE MANAGEMENT FOR QUALIFIED MUSICIANS WHO ARE ELDERLY AND RETIRED OR SEMI-RETIRED, OR FOR ANY QUALIFIED MUSICIAN WHO HAS MEDICAL OR MEDICALLY RELATED EXPENSES THEY CANNOT PAY.

  • SWEET RELIEF PROVIDES FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND CASE MANAGEMENT FOR QUALIFIED MUSICIANS WHO ARE IN NEED OF MEDICAL CARE AND/OR ARE ELDERLY AND MEET CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS. GRANTS ARE DECIDED ON A CASE-BY-CASE BASIS BY A COMMITTEE OF MUSICIANS ACCORDING TO THE APPLICANT'S NEEDS, OTHER RESOURCES THAT MIGHT BE AVAILABLE, AND OTHER FACTORS, SUCH AS THE APPLICANT'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO MUSIC. NON-MEASUREABLE ACHIEVEMENTS INCLUDE: DIRECTING INQUIRIES AND GRANT RECEIPIENTS TO OTHER PRIVATE CHARITIES AS WELL AS PUBLIC PROGRAMS THEY MIGHT NOT BE AWARE OF, AND INTERVENING WITH AND ADVOCATING FOR OTHERS ON THEIR BEHALF INCLUDING MEDICAL PROVIDERS AND OTHER VENDORS.IN THE PAST SWEET RELIEF HAS PROVIDED SERVICES, GUIDANCE, AND COST SAVINGS TO OVER 1,000 ARTISTS AND MUSIC INDUSTRY WORKERS. ONE MILLION DOLLARS IN AID FROM OTHER PARTNER CHARITIES, LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL PROGRAMS WERE AWARDED WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF SWEET RELIEF FUND STAFF MEMBERS. SWEET RELIEF ALSO ACCOUNTED FOR OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS IN SAVINGS BY HELPING TO NEGOTIATE MEDICAL BILLS AND INSURANCE COSTS TO OUR CONSTITUENCY.OUR PRIMARY SOURCES OF INFORMATION ARE OUR WEBSITE, AND OUR MYSPACE AND FACEBOOK SITES, WHICH REACH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DAILY AND INCREASE AWARENESS OF OUR SERVICES OF SOCIOECONOMIC ISSUES THAT FACE MUSICIANS, AND OF WHAT OTHER OPTIONS EXIST FOR MUSICIANS IN NEED. SWEET RELIEF HAS FOCUSED OUR EFFORTS IN AN AREA NOT MANAGED BY ANY OTHER CHARITY CURRENTLY ASSISTING THE MUSIC INDUSTRY. THE DIRECTED INDIVIDUALS FUND HAS HELPED SEVERLY ILL AND DISABLED APPLICANTS FACING OVERWHELMING FINANCIAL DISTRESS. PATIENTS AFFLICTED WITH STAGE 4 CANCER, ALS, SPINAL INJURIES AMONG OTHERS HAVE BENEFITTED FROM SWEET RELIEF PAYING FOR MEDICAL TREATMENTS SOMETIMES EXCEEDING $10,000. OUR GOAL HAS BEEN TO NOT ONLY HELP, BUT SOMETIMES FIX, A SITUATION COMPLETELY. THIS IS A MISSION WE ARE WORKING, IN EARNEST, ON A DAILY AND YEARLY BASIS. WE ALSO SEEK TO REMIND FANS AND OTHERS OF THE IMPORTANT ROLE THAT MUSIC AND MUSICIANS PLAY IN OUR LIVES.

    Expenses $3,375,039 · Revenue $2,544,648

  • WE RECEIVE A LARGE AMOUNT OF VOLUNTEER SERVICES. MUCH OF OUR LABOR IS DONATED, THUS KEEPING OVERHEAD AND SALARIES VERY LOW AND TO MAKE GRANTS AS GENEROUS AS WE POSSIBLY CAN.ADDITIONALY: SOMETIMES PEOPLE EXPERIENCING DIFFICULTY, JUST NEED A SYMPATHETIC EAR.

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • WILLIAM BENNETT

    President

    Total calculated
    $151,625
    From this org
    $151,625
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    60

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,625
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $151,625

  • ARIC STEINBERG

    Director

    Total calculated
    $88,237
    From this org
    $88,237
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • VICTORIA WILLIAMS

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK MATHEWS

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID BOURNAZIAN

    BOARD OF DIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ARIEL HYATT

    BOARD OF DIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALLISON SHAW

    BOARD OF DIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHELDON GOMBERG

    BOARD OF DIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PETER WARK

    BOARD OF DIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,553,825
    Expenses
    $3,907,518
    Contributions
    $2,553,825
    Grants paid
    $2,933,437

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,198,883
    Expenses
    $1,317,156
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,912,844

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,764,526
    Expenses
    $1,346,804
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,031,050

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,202,449
    Expenses
    $664,484
    Assets (EOY)
    $620,828

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $492,235
    Expenses
    $597,561
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,716

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,101,505
    Expenses
    $962,614
    Assets (EOY)
    $180,689

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2017, reinstated 15 May 2017.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.