Totals
- Total revenue
- $74,123
- Total expenses
- $83,015
- Contributions and grants received
- $56,359
- Grants paid
- not reported
- Program service revenue
- $10,764
- Membership dues (line 3)
- not reported
- Investment income (line 4)
- not reported
- 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)
- $7,000
- Total assets, end of year
- $4,899
- Total liabilities, end of year
- not reported
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $4,899
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $20,000
Program services were 24.1% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2025
Primary exempt purpose
Musaics of the Bays main program services involve our residency programs which bring together groups of emerging and established artists musicians and composers to Berkeley CA for a week of direct and intensive collaboration and shared with a wider audience through musical performances and audio and visual recordings. Musaics also hosts regular concert programming in various locations in the Bay Area throughout the year presenting a range of music and musicians.
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Our annual artist residency took place in August 2025 and featured community-submitted writings that inspired new works of music and visual art. The residency brought together 4 local writers 4 young composers and 4 instrumentalists for a week of intensive collaboration and creation culminating in a concert presented at the historic Berkeley Piano Club for an audience of over 100 people in Berkeley CA.
Expenses $10,000 · Grants $10,000
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Hosted 4 free community concerts in different locations throughout Berkeley CA ,that presented a total of 7 musicians and reached over 400 audience members.
Expenses $10,000 · Grants $10,000
As filed on the 2025 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Meina Xu
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 8
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Sharona Barzilay
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 4
-
Milad Yousufi
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Isabella Rosekrans
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Audrey Vardanega
Music Director
- Total calculated
- $8,800
- Compensation
- $8,800
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 20
-
Thomas Chen
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Christophe Rimann
Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- 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
- 2025
- Filed
- 9 April 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.0
- Source object
- 202610999349200306
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