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Form 990-EZ for tax year 2024

Filed by CROSSING BORDERS MUSIC COLLECTIVE.

Totals

Total revenue
$182,328
Total expenses
$169,514
Contributions and grants received
$150,512
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$31,186
Membership dues (line 3)
$0
Investment income (line 4)
$630
Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
$0
Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
$0
Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
$0
Other revenue (line 8)
$0
Total assets, end of year
$61,242
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$61,242
Program service expenses (Part III)
$129,228

Program services were 76.2% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

Mission and programs · 2024

Primary exempt purpose

Crossing Borders Music is a multicultural organization of color that shares the stories and music of those whose voices are suppressed because of race, ethnicity, disability, gender, sexual orientation, other identity, or related trauma. We do this through free, accessible programs in community spaces in service and affirmation of our communities and collaborators. The mission of Crossing Borders Music is to use music to promote the dignity of people from all cultures.

  • In FY25, Crossing Borders Music shared 61 concerts reaching approximately 2960 adults and 4160 students, primarily in Chicago Public Schools. Crossing Borders Music also added 86 videos to its online music library - both world premiere string quartet performances and videos documenting Rohingya musicians' performance practices in the Cox's Bazar Refugee camps of Bangladesh. These videos of Rohingya music are a part of CBM's news Rohingya Music Virtual Library, one of the world's largest collections of online information about Rohingya music, created and published to document endangered Rohingya cultural traditions. Altogether, videos in CBM's online music library were viewed 81,000 times in the past year. CBM also commissioned 7 new string quartet compositions and arrangements. Finally, CBM ran its annual Young Composers Project providing music composition lessons and mentorship to four youth from music programs in the Garfield Park and North Lawndale neighborhoods of Chicago.

    Expenses $129,228

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part IV

  • Curtis Smith

    Past-President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael King

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mi Ran Choi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2

  • Thomas Clowes

    Artistic Director and Cellist

    Total calculated
    $38,494
    Compensation
    $38,494
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    25

  • Casandra Holliday

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2

  • Marschnee Strong

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $35,377
    Compensation
    $35,377
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    25

  • Tom McNulty

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nik Rana

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2

  • Scout Fynn

    Director of Marketing and Social Engagement

    Total calculated
    $4,269
    Compensation
    $4,269
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    10

Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990_ez
Tax year
2024
Filed
15 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.0
Source object
202513199349202306

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