MUSIC EDUCATION INITIATIVE

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A25

Classification

1200

Street

2806 W RAINIER RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• The Music Education Initiative sponsored the 2024 Arkansas County Blues & Stringsband Festival which was a weekend event to for general public. This annual event serves as both a cultural celebration & educational opportunity. The festival blends live performances from well known and legendary musical artists with artist led workshops in music, dance, and trandition based crafts. By elevating heritage arts & showcasing cross-cultural exchange, the festival promotes understanding & pride in local traditions while drawing regional attention to Arkansass creative talent. Cultural presentations such as square dancing, community storytelling, & shared creative spaces revive & reinterpret communal traditions, encouraging participation across generations. Additional hands-on engagements have included film screenings, media workshops, quill instrument making, & craft distilling demonstrations. These efforts cultivate appreciation for diverse cultural expressions.

  Expenses $31,809 · Revenue $6,468

• The Music Education Initiative offers Production education & Techinal Training Workshops. The workshops offer training to program pareticipant by upskilling them with training & delvelopment for potential career paths such as live music performance technicians, production lighting technicians, & logistics support (crew & stage hands for loading & unloading equipment & cases, ect). Participants are trained by live performance preduction professionals in the region, who are in need of additional trained workforce personnel. Our training allows participants to get hands-on experience & develop relationships with production & technical companies, venue operators, stage & theatre companies with the ability to be hired for entry level employment at an hourly rate higher than the current minimum wage. Since 2022, we have provided 56 workshops.

  Expenses $21,999 · Revenue $8,239

• Juke Joint was originally commissioned by the Clinton Library in 2020 as a reproduction of a music joint of the south in early American history. The Clinton Library Foundation donated the Juke Joint to The Music Education Initiative in 2021 for use in music education. The Juke Joint Project, provides year around programming & activiations taht have included live performances, poetry, open mic sessions, Humanities lectures, film screenings, lectures, community engagement events, & cross cultural shows. This initiative honors historical Black music spaces while creating new opportunities for local, regional, & touring artists. This project acts as a living classroom where audiences of all ages engage with the roots of American music and its modern day interpreters, fostering cultural literacy & community cohesion.

  Expenses $8,776 · Revenue $2,557

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $133,329

  Expenses

  $289,124

  Contributions

  $133,329

  Grants paid

  $5,621

• 2023

  Revenue

  $350,517

  Expenses

  $239,004

  Contributions

  $350,517

  Grants paid

  $303

• 2022

  Revenue

  $124,283

  Expenses

  $111,403

  Contributions

  $93,000

  Grants paid

  $330

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $93,083

  Expenses

  $29,346

  Assets (EOY)

  $63,837

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

• AR Arts Counncil Artist Grant

  — no cash amount reported

  2024

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $210,000

  2024 · TO FURTHER THE ORGANIZATION'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• CREATIVE ARKANSAS COMMUNITY AND EXCHANGE INC CACHE

  $90,000

  2023 · MOAC

• CREATIVE ARKANSAS COMMUNITY AND EXCHANGE INC CACHE

  $85,000

  2022 · MOAC

• BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $50,000

  2023 · TO FURTHER THE ORGANIZATION'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• IN OUR BACKYARDS INC

  $30,109

  2023 · TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE JUKE JOINT PROJECT

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