COLOUR OF MUSIC INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A68

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 22724

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 Colour of Music Festival, Inc. presents a diverse classical repertoire of baroque, classical and 20th-century music at the highest of musical standards to diverse audiences nationally. The festival has presented in Atlanta, Georgia; Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; Houston; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Richmond, Virginia; Washington, D.C.; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Sacramento, California. Few classical music enthusiasts are aware of the tremendous contributions of Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges, an African-French composer whose opera and classical masterpieces equaled or far exceeded those of his 18th- century contemporaries. Although his compositions are highly recognized overseas, they have gathered little notice in the United States. Today there are thousands of celebrated and prodigiously talented classical principals, composers and performers of African descent throughout the world. Yet, their opportunities to grace concert stages of major American orchestras are rare to non-existent. The Colour of Music Festivals mission is reversing this trend. Since 2013, the Colour of Music Festival offers a musical kaleidoscope highlighting the impact and historical significance of Black classical composers and performers on American and world culture. The Colour of Music Festival began with performances at various venues throughout historic Charleston, South Carolina and has grown to debut in cities across the country with artists from across the globe. Assembling acclaimed Black chamber ensemble players and artists to form the Colour of Music Orchestra, the Festival showcases some of the top Black classical musicians in the United States, trained at some of the most prestigious music schools, conservatories and universities in the world. Education The mission of Make Music Count is to increase elementary and secondary students mathematical skill development through piano playing and reducing their math anxiety. By incorporating music into each lesson, students become engaged through music while simultaneously learning mathematical concepts. Each lesson is based on learning musical notes in a song. Each note is derived through a mathematical equation that varies from addition and subtraction to algebraic equations. Therefore, solving math equations leads directly to playing the piano, and a more positive attitude towards math.

  Expenses $464,260 · Revenue $21,308

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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

  $540,398

  Expenses

  $505,771

  Contributions

  $519,089

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,100,503

  Expenses

  $1,115,343

  Contributions

  $1,079,028

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,184,430

  Expenses

  $919,977

  Contributions

  $1,127,360

  Grants paid

  $0

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

  Revenue

  $684,446

  Expenses

  $717,362

  Assets (EOY)

  $105,703

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $158,483

  Expenses

  $160,332

  Assets (EOY)

  $76,456

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

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

• SOUTH ARTS INC

  $157,500

  2022 · SOUTHERN CULTURAL TREASURES GRANTS

• SOUTH ARTS INC

  $120,000

  2023 · SOUTHERN CULTURAL TREASURES GRANTS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $60,500

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $25,150

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• SUTTER VALLEY HOSPITALS

  $25,000

  2023

• EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY FUND OF THE BOEING COMPANY

  $15,000

  2024 · COMMUNITY SUPPORT

• COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC

  $10,000

  2023 · ARTS

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