Totals
- Total revenue
- $68,404
- Total expenses
- $64,749
- Contributions and grants received
- $19,475
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $48,883
- Membership dues (line 3)
- $0
- Investment income (line 4)
- $46
- 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
- $98,641
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $98,641
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $31,608
Program services were 48.8% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2024
Primary exempt purpose
To promote music and the arts in Reading and Berks County through the maintenance the musical arts in Reading and Berks County
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Support the local ballet school annual presentation of the Nutcracker. Ballet performances are a combination of children, adults and professional dancer that provides valuable experience for the children and adult amateurs and a show case for professional dancers at Kutztown University
Expenses $13,506 · Grants $15,000
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Concert was a memorial concert to honor a local professional actor/ vocalist that had recently died. A professional actor/vocalist from New York performed with the Reading Pops Orchestra to provide a public concert at the Miller Center of his well know performances to honor his memory.
Expenses $11,235 · Grants $10,925
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A "side by side concert" of Berks county high school music students and the Reading Pops Orchestra . This function provides students the opportunity to play along side the Reading Pops Orchestra musicians for a rehearsal and a concert. After the rehearsal with the full orchestra, the various section move to different locations to rehearse individual section music. Various techniques of playing the respective instruments as well as the music for the concert with the student. We them provided some pizza and refreshments for the students and musicians prior to performing the concert in their auditorium for the public.
Expenses $6,867 · Grants $6,877
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Jessica Godek
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Michael Slechta
Past President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Judith Koch
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Scott Rhoads
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Julie Beth Drey
Managing Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Willis Rapp
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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John Ernesto
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Jessica Manning
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Patricia Kline
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Laura Shipe
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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
- 5 October 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.0
- Source object
- 202542869349200309
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