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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR CULTURAL PRODUCTION.

Totals

Total revenue
$883,977
Total expenses
$920,735
Contributions and grants received
$766,345
Grants paid
$116,555
Program service revenue
$108,457
Investment income
$300
Other revenue
$8,875
Total assets, end of year
$3,643,018
Total liabilities, end of year
$25,207
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$3,617,811
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$696,301
Management and general expenses
$220,542
Fundraising expenses
$3,892
Program service expenses (Part III)
$696,301

Program services were 75.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $132,583

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $633,762

  • 2a · Program service revenue: AGRICULTURAL SERVICES

    total $20,150 · related or exempt $20,150

  • 2b · Program service revenue: FARMERS MARKET

    total $1,563 · related or exempt $1,563

  • 2c · Program service revenue: PARTNERSHIP FEES

    total $10,000 · related or exempt $10,000

  • 2d · Program service revenue: RESEARCH CONSULTING

    total $74,044 · related or exempt $74,044

  • 2e · Program service revenue: SPEAKER FEES

    total $2,700 · related or exempt $2,700

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $300 · excluded $300

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: ADMINISTRATIVE FEES

    total $5,000 · excluded $5,000

  • 11b · Other revenue: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $3,875 · excluded $3,875

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $8,875

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $61,735 · program services $61,735

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $54,820 · program services $54,820

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $133,622 · program services $103,687 · management and general $26,725 · fundraising $3,210

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $291,488 · program services $277,399 · management and general $14,003 · fundraising $86

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $43,073 · program services $38,611 · management and general $4,126 · fundraising $336

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $33,346 · program services $29,891 · management and general $3,195 · fundraising $260

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $56,175 · management and general $56,175

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $86,317 · program services $27,831 · management and general $58,486

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $1,250 · program services $1,250

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $0

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $2,083 · program services $569 · management and general $1,514

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $17,914 · program services $11,480 · management and general $6,434

  • 17 · Travel

    total $23,843 · program services $21,473 · management and general $2,370

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $33,921 · program services $22,298 · management and general $11,623

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $7,014 · management and general $7,014

  • 24a · Other expenses: SUPPLIES

    total $64,910 · program services $40,012 · management and general $24,898

  • 24b · Other expenses: EQUIPMENT RENTAL

    total $4,831 · program services $4,626 · management and general $205

  • 24c · Other expenses: REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE

    total $3,616 · program services $537 · management and general $3,079

  • 24d · Other expenses: Postage and Shipping

    total $220 · program services $82 · management and general $138

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $557 · management and general $557

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $1,525,922 · end of year $2,436,005

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $885,000 · end of year $746,471

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $897,155 · end of year $69,040

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $11,093 · end of year $854

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $415,324

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $40,954

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $369,131 · end of year $374,370

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    end of year $16,278

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $11,817 · end of year $1,964

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $21,915 · end of year $23,243

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $2,505,579 · end of year $2,789,685

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,148,990 · end of year $828,126

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

To support groups and individuals creating social, economic, and cultural transformation toward long-term sustainability through the research, creation, and presentation of arts, culture, and agriculture.

  • For the year ended December 31, 2022, the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production d/b/a Sipp Culture operated the following programs:(i) The DigiCulture Lab is a three-week summer program for middle school students, ages 12 14 in Utica, Mississippi. It is designed to support youth development of agricultural skills and the knowledge to use digital media tools of photography, video, and audio production to build personal and collective rural narratives that are connected to the land, family, food, and cultural production. The DigiCulture Lab supports the mission of Sipp Culture to advance comprehensive community development strategies through connecting stories about family, land, and food with digital storytelling and agricultural production. (ii) The Rural Performance / Production Lab (RPPL) is a creative production process that seeks to support the development of new performance movement, story, and sound rooted in rural history, places, and bodies. Through leveraging the combined assets of a rural, place-based initiative dedicated to cultural production, the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production d/b/a Sipp Culture will support rural artists in the creation of new work by providing time, space, and connectivity. The Mississippi Center for Cultural Production d/b/a Sipp Culture sees this initiative as integral to creating space for rural narratives to fill gaps in the Organizations national story and expand the conversation to include unique and important perspectives. (iii) The Intercultural Leadership Institute (ILI) is a year-long intensive leadership experience for artists, culture bearers and other arts practitioners. ILI is a collaborative program of Alternate ROOTS, First Peoples Fund, National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures (NALAC) and PAI Foundation. The effort grew out of our direct experiences as leaders of these founding cultural organizations. The Mississippi Center for Cultural Production d/b/a Sipp Culture often found that many personal and professional leadership programs emphasized dominant cultural norms, modes of learning and social approaches that didnt match the Mississippi Center for Cultural Productions d/b/a Sipp Culture commitment to cultural equity and change-making in the Organizations own communities.ILIs intercultural approach emphasizes overlapping experiences, shared spaces and mutual accountability and seeks to challenge dominant social norms while honoring differences of histories, traditions, vocabulary and more. The Organization seeks to develop leaders specifically within the arts & culture field to adeptly respond to significant changes that impact society, politics, environment and economy. As a peer cohort, ILI intercultural leaders hone personal and professional skills to affect local, national and global communities and promote a shift toward greater awareness, resourcing and action in the broader field of arts & culture. (iv) Equitable Food Futures: Activating Community Memory, Story, and Imagination in Rural Mississippi - This research project will document and activate community agricultural knowledge and assets towards a more sustainable, equitable, and healthy food culture and economy. Situated in Utica, a low to moderate-income predominantly Black rural community in Mississippi, the research is framed within the broader context of the creative cultural development practices of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production d/b/a Sipp Culture and a long-standing history of social movements for land-based self- determination and locally owned Black farming in the U.S. South.(v) Small Farmer Apprentice Program trains both aspiring and experienced farmers in the skills needed to meet the production needs of the Organizations rural community. This program supports participants over three years through an 18-month apprenticeship with financial support and training in small farm agricultural production.

    Expenses $696,301 · Grants $116,555

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Carlton Turner

    CO-DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $69,418
    From this org
    $69,418
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    65
  • Brandi Turner

    CO-DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $64,204
    From this org
    $64,204
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    65
  • Jean Greene

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Daniel Johnson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • June Hardwick

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mary Lofton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, 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. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

  • FOXFIRE RANCH

    $50,000

    SPONSORSHIP

  • WE ARE THE PROMISED LAND

    $9,325

    SPONSORSHIP

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
9 May 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202301299349303555

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