Giving the planet its groove back

When you engage with my music, I give to the mission. Royalties too.

Jonathan Schwartz outside a studio loading dock

What I’m playing for.

Hundreds of trees to plant.

Hundreds of people to give clean water for a year.

Hundreds of pounds of ocean plastic to remove.

We are here.

300 of each is the goal. These are the confirmed donations so far, with the organization that received each one.

Overall mission progress

Three goals underway
17%

50 trees planted. 50 people supported with clean water for a year. 52 pounds of ocean plastic removed.

New albums.
Fully for charity.

Burn Bright · Overexposed · Amplify · Timelines

Music gave me a way through.
This is how I give something back.

A debilitating injury put a guitar in my hands. I had to sit still for the first time in years, and I found I loved writing. 100+ songs later, I’m still following wherever the music takes me.

I spent nearly a decade on Broadway across three shows — and 50+ musicals before that, going back to childhood. Eventually I wanted to write and sing something that was mine, so I taught myself production from scratch.

Somewhere in there I started paying closer attention to the good happening in the world, and wanted my music to be part of it rather than separate from it. I’m putting my own money where my microphone is.

All streaming royalties are donated separately, through DistroKid. The mission goals above are funded personally.

45.2K monthly listeners.

Context, not a mission metric — the impact bars above move only on confirmed donations, never on plays.

Next audience milestone 45,153 / 50,000
90% to the next milestone View on Spotify ↗

Reaching out my hand.
Maybe you’re reaching back.