You Be You Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920897431
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Millvale, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4123877422
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $92,430
- Expenses
- $100,153
- Assets
- $7,630
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Georgia English (Executive director, president)
People named in this filing
- Georgia English (Executive director, president)
- Kaston Guffey (Treasurer, music teacher)
- Tatia Rose (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
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.
What it reported doing in 2025
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.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24.5%; rating input score 24
- Program expense ratio: 22.6%; rating input score 23
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.4%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 56.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -53.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -67.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 24.5% of revenue deployed · 22.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 24/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.