Soundwaves Art Foundation
EIN 46-3817830 · files IRS Form 990, Schedule I
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 10 grants · $1.3m
Who it funds most
16 of its 52 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Soundwaves Art Foundation's own IRS Form 990, Schedule I returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 40 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990 Part VII, tax year 2024, filing 202513219349320911
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
A year with no bar has no grants on file yet: its returns may not be loaded. It is not a year without giving.
| Tax year | Return | Assets, year end | Grants paid | Charitable spending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Form 990 | $3.4m | — | $2.9m |
| 2023 | Form 990 | $2.7m | — | $2.7m |
As filed, in US dollars. Assets at fair market value where the return gives it.
Its returns6 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202513219349320911 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202412899349302231 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202312209349301221 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202202779349301850 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202103089349303655 | IRS batch file |
| 2017 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 201803189349312515 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Soundwaves Art Foundation made 80 grants across 2017–2024, totalling $3.6m as filed.
- Grants
- 80
- Total, as filed
- $3.6m
- Years
- 2017–2024
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| CHILDREN IN CONFLICT | 5 | $1.3m |
| SWEET RELEIF MUSICIANS FUND | 3 | $421.7k |
| SWEET RELIEF MUSICANS FUND | 1 | $201.9k |
| KULTURECITY | 4 | $166.5k |
| NORDOFF ROBBINS MUSIC THERAPY | 2 | $137.2k |
| NORTHERN MANHATTAN ARTS ALLIANCE | 3 | $116.8k |
| SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND | 1 | $113.8k |
| NOTES FOR NOTES | 4 | $95.9k |
| THE NATIONAL | 1 | $85.5k |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | 2 | $67.4k |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH FOUNDATION | 2 | $63.8k |
| FARM AID | 4 | $60.8k |
| LOOKING OUT FOUNDATION | 2 | $57.7k |
| SIMS FOUNDATION | 1 | $50.6k |
| SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION | 3 | $42.0k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 3 | $84.5k |
| 2020 | 11 | $342.1k |
| 2021 | 13 | $677.8k |
| 2022 | 12 | $769.7k |
| 2023 | 21 | $997.9k |
| 2024 | 20 | $705.1k |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-463817830. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified