Form 990-EZ for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$48,829

Total expenses

$48,820

Contributions and grants received

$37,567

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$10,897

Membership dues (line 3)

$0

Investment income (line 4)

$0

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)

$365

Total assets, end of year

$4,477

Total liabilities, end of year

$558

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$3,919

Program service expenses (Part III)

$40,567

Program services were 83.1% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

Mission and programs · 2025

• 1)Major Concerts: Expenses $15,717. AGAR presented 5 major concerts, including (A) Baltimore bass clarinetist, Todd Marcus with Jazz Quintet, featuring Virginia MacDonald, at Lynchburg University's Schewel Hall. Free admission to UL affiliated persons. Persons benefitted 57. Expenses $3,273. (B)Ayreheart Renaissance-folk Quartet, featuring Grammy nominated lutenist Ronn McFarlane, presented at Second Stage Amherst. Persons benefitted 94. Expenses $3016. (C)"Plunkey and Oneness" a jazz-Funk group of black artists, utilizing vocals, videos, and dance, presented by AGAR and University of Lynchburg a LU's Snidow Chapel, celebrated Black History Month. AGAR offered free admission to LU affiliated persons, and Persons benefitted totaled 150. Expenses were $6,081. (D)Paddy D's "Ready to Sail concert featuring local singer/sonwriter Paddy Dougherty was presented by AGAR at Second Stage Amherst in the fall. This popular Rhythm & blues group Benefitted 98 people, Expenses $1,683. Paddy D gave a second concert at Second Stage Amherst on 5/15/26 Persons Benefitted 44. Expenses $1,664.

  Expenses $15,717

• Java & Jazz Concert series: Expenses $12,454. AGAR presents monthly Jazz concerts 6-8 PM at Second Stage Amherst, usually 10 per year, utilizing local musicians, promoting local coffee house Baines Coffee, for low ticket prices of $15 for adults and $6 for students, and attracting a primarily local audience. Persons benefitted include local performers (estimated at 50), Coffee shop staff (Est. 4) and concert attendees (Est. 40-90 per show, Est. 550 for year. We encourage new artists, and support the regulars.

  Expenses $12,454

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

  Expenses $12,396

As filed on the 2025 return. 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

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

2025

Filed

10 September 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.0

Source object

202602549349200730

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