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MICHIGAN FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC

EIN 30-0129719 KALAMAZOO, MI

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Revenue 2025
$103,843
Expenses 2025
$130,778

Program services were 99.4% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X20
Classification
7000
Street
PO BOX 50566

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 · 2025

Primary exempt purpose

WE SERVE AUDIENCES AND COMMUNITIES OF ALL FAITHS AND CULTURES BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH EACH OTHER THROUGH MUSIC.

  • THE MICHIGAN FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC PRESENTS CONCERTS AND RELATED WORKSHOPS, COLLABORATING WITH AREA ORGANIZATIONS, CELEBRATING THE CONNECTING POWER OF MUSIC AND TAKING A BROAD VIEW OF THE WORD "SACRED", ENCOMPASSING NOT ONLY MUSIC RELATED TO FAITH TRADITIONS, BUT ALSO CULTURAL HERITAGE, HUMAN DIGNITY, THE ENVIRONMENT AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

    Expenses $129,953

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Dr Elizabeth Start

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $31,500
    Compensation
    $31,500
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    20
  • Beau Bothwell

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $150
    Compensation
    $150
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lexie Schroeder Kobb

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tawfiq Ali

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kenneth Dettloff

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1
  • Wilma Kahn

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1
  • Janice Lakers

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1
  • Helen Yee

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $900
    Compensation
    $900
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1
  • Karen Libman

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $103,843
    Expenses
    $130,778
    Contributions
    $79,130
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $134,752
    Expenses
    $123,937
    Contributions
    $106,788
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $122,081
    Expenses
    $121,476
    Contributions
    $100,685
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $88,656
    Expenses
    $112,540
    Contributions
    $76,179
    Grants paid
    not reported

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
    $99,657
    Expenses
    $100,340
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,904
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $90,633
    Expenses
    $63,116
    Assets (EOY)
    $100,587
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $107,682
    Expenses
    $106,815
    Assets (EOY)
    $73,070
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $108,461
    Expenses
    $108,803
    Assets (EOY)
    $72,203
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $120,881
    Expenses
    $103,484
    Assets (EOY)
    $72,545
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $91,236
    Expenses
    $84,223
    Assets (EOY)
    $55,148
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $84,896
    Expenses
    $111,482
    Assets (EOY)
    $48,135
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $97,188
    Expenses
    $50,574
    Assets (EOY)
    $74,721
  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $78,624
    Expenses
    $118,733
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,107
  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $88,734
    Expenses
    $56,454
    Assets (EOY)
    $68,216

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.