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HARMONIC SOUTH STRING ORCHESTRA INC

EIN 81-2758334 MEMPHIS, TN

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Revenue 2023
$73,614
Expenses 2023
$153,955

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
A25
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 140

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 · 2023

Primary exempt purpose

Harmonic South String Orchestra, Inc. provides string orchestral music instruction and free or low-cost performance opportunities to youth in underserved (typically minority) communities.

  • Harmonic South String Orchestra (HSSO) is a music education and performing arts organization currently serving Memphis youth ages 5-18. With a special emphasis on South Memphis, HSSO teaches children who might otherwise have no opportunity for string orchestra lessons to play string instruments, and to appreciate a wider range of music and cultural experiences and exposure than their individual families or neighborhoods might provide. In addition to providing fun and enjoyment, the experience of learning, practicing and performing music instills confidence and teaches life skills that help the students in school and beyond. Their participation in recitals, Fall and Spring concerts and other music performances benefits not only the students themselves, but also the families and communities who might otherwise have limited exposure to live orchestral music.

    Expenses $153,085

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Carl Everett Johnson Jr

    COO

    Total calculated
    $16,900
    Compensation
    $16,900
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Alison Turner

    DIRECTOR, CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jb Smiley Jr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lisa Miles

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Darnell Moses

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gina Miller

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Walter Banks

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Laquita Rallings

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michelle Mason Johnson

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $16,900
    Compensation
    $16,900
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Terrence A Brown

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $73,614
    Expenses
    $153,955
    Contributions
    $72,637
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $182,002
    Expenses
    $177,560
    Contributions
    $180,362
    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-EZ

    Revenue
    $118,603
    Expenses
    $49,884
    Assets (EOY)
    $131,307
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $105,362
    Expenses
    $44,975
    Assets (EOY)
    $62,608

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2019, reinstated 15 May 2019.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.