You Be You Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
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.
- Income
- $92,430
- Spending
- $100,153
- Reserves
- 0.9 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- fees for its services, 71%
- Highest pay
- $32,180, executive director, president
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Weak: 40 out of 100. Higher than 12% of charities in its peer group (arts and culture, under $250k).
Reserves
4 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 0.9 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 0% of what it owns.
Living within its means
4 of 15Spending exceeded income by 8% of income.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (4)
- $13,000 spent. 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 through 2nd grade) learned to play two songs as a group. Our Middle School rock band offered the same instrumentation listed in Junior Rock band but with more mature and complicated music selections, most of which centered around themes of mental health. This program served 5 students weekly. Also for this age group, we offered a middle school guitar club afterschool weekly at the Millvale Community Library, which served 8 students weekly.
- $1,000 spent. Taking 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.
- Our 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.
- $8,600 spent. We 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.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since January 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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