- 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.
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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.
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Carl Everett Johnson JrCARL EVERETT JOHNSON JR
COO
- Total calculated
- $16,900
- Compensation
- $16,900
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Alison TurnerALISON TURNER
DIRECTOR, CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jb Smiley JrJB SMILEY JR
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lisa MilesLISA MILES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Darnell MosesDARNELL MOSES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Gina MillerGINA MILLER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Walter BanksWALTER BANKS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Laquita RallingsLAQUITA RALLINGS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Michelle Mason Johnson
CEO
- Total calculated
- $16,900
- Compensation
- $16,900
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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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
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2023
- Revenue
- $73,614
- Expenses
- $153,955
- Contributions
- $72,637
- Grants paid
- $0
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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
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2021 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $118,603
- Expenses
- $49,884
- Assets (EOY)
- $131,307
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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
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2022 Capacity Building and Summer Youth Program
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2023 Oranize youth
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2024 ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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$32,100
2023 OPERATING SUPPORT
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$10,000
2022 OPERATING SUPPORT
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.