Skip to content
Nonprofiteer
← Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History

Form 990-EZ for tax year 2023

Filed by Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History.

Totals

Total revenue
$67,257
Total expenses
$73,172
Contributions and grants received
$63,415
Grants paid
not reported
Program service revenue
$711
Membership dues (line 3)
not reported
Investment income (line 4)
not reported
Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
not reported
Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
not reported
Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
$0
Other revenue (line 8)
$3,131
Total assets, end of year
$26,280
Total liabilities, end of year
not reported
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$26,280
Program service expenses (Part III)
$71,306

Program services were 97.4% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

Mission and programs · 2023

Primary exempt purpose

Marion Voices Folklife + Oral History -- Marion County's countywide folklife cultural arts & heritage organization -- exists to collaborate with our North-Central Ohio community to 1 amplify diverse folklife traditions & cultural arts heritages across Marion County in collaboration with culture-keepers & tradition bearers; 2 build expanded livelihoods for Marion County folk traditional & cultural artists & memory-keepers through arts-based economic development opportunities paid performance teaching presentation & cultural documentation opportunities & arts-&-culture-based job creation; & 3 collaboratively curate folklife & cultural arts programming to build critical reparative pride-in-place in Marion County ... towards more just abundant futures for all.

  • Marion Voices in the Schools MVITS Folklife + Cultural Arts Residencies & Associated Folk Arts Educational Outreach. Marion Voices' MVITS program -- including our allied Teaching Artists' Training Program TATP -- was our largest suite of community folklife programming for FY2023. In FY2023 we expanded our MVITS program to three new school districts & three new programs & ran a second year of the Teaching Artist Training Program for community artists wanting to become teaching artists. While direct grants to our partner school supported artists' pay Marion Voices again provided funding for curriculum development program coordination artist training & supplies & stipends for a final festival at one school site. In FY2023 MVITS ran residencies with Marion St. Mary School 127 students River Valley Middle School 145 students & Pleasant High School 171 students & supported 15 community teaching artists: eight of whom trained for the first time with our TATP in 2023.

    Expenses $43,419

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $14,737

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $6,000

  • Other FY2023 core Marion Voices programs in order of expenses & impact included our brand-new Marion Voices Pilot Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program -- which supported two master cultural artists to train apprentices in a folklife tradition selected genres were Black foodways & Nicaraguan cultural arts an expanded annual Countywide Folklife Survey which documented 5 additional community artists & tradition-bearers through oral history interviews photography & video the return of our Marion Voices Summer Institute Zoom workshops rebranded as the "Marion Voices Back-to-School Institute" which offered four cultural arts & public history workshops across September & our ongoing community scholar program which supported Marion Voices' outreach & historical research capacity through direct investments in community cultural organizers as Marion Voices contractors.

    Expenses $7,150

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part IV

  • Jess Lamar Reece Holler

    Executive Director and Secretary

    Total calculated
    $49,303
    Compensation
    $49,303
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    60
  • Johnnie Lewis Jackson

    President and Community Coordinator

    Total calculated
    $2,220
    Compensation
    $2,220
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Tara Dyer

    Community Scholar and Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $198
    Compensation
    $198
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
2023
Filed
15 May 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202431369349204378

Check it against the return as filed: the GivingTuesday Data Lake hosts a public copy of the original XML.

The source document this was parsed from is served over the API, which is where bulk and document access live.