MUSIC AND CULTURE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS NONPROFIT CORPORATION
EIN 46-2889310 NEW ORLEANS, LA
- Revenue 2023
- $199,003
- Expenses 2023
- $206,296
Program services were 57.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A03
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 108
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
Mission
We collaborate with organize and build the civic capacity of the New Orleans music and cultural community to preserve and nurture the citys culture to translate community vision into policy change and to create a more just and equitable city and region.
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Direct Assistance In 2023 we began our partnership with the New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund serving as the fiscal agent for the majority of their giving to individual members of the cultural community. This work also included setting up distributions contacting all recipients answering questions and in some instances assisting individuals in the application process. Over the course of the year we worked directly with almost 250 community members. We also directed musicians artists and culture bearers to other forms of assistance including connecting them with agencies that help with housing instability healthcare and financial management. In addition we worked with small cultural businesses and music venues including the Dew Drop Inn one of New Orleans most historic music venues that reopened after being shuttered for several decades.
Expenses $74,829 · Grants $13,367 · Revenue $2,160
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Develop and Advocate for Culture Friendly Policies and Procedures: This year we continued and were successful in our push to reopen the Royal Street Pedestrian Mall which included a partnership with local press and a series of meetings with musicians business owners neighbors and elected officials. We maintained a leadership role in the Creative Response Network which developed strategies to support the cultural community and we partnered with other organizations like Global New Orleans to discuss cultural policy.
Expenses $25,882 · Revenue $1,000
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Research and Building Civic Capacity We continued our development of the Frenchmen Notes website which includes extensive interviews with local musicians which are then transcribed and posted online. We also launched our series of Advocacy Guides which include Introduction to Community Engagement Working with City Council and more. This series will continue throughout the next year as well. This year we also began presenting to visiting school groups including high school seniors from the Jewish Community High School of the Bay and a class of gifted sixth graders from Rochester NY.
Expenses $18,467
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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Ethan Ellestad
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $79,175
- From this org
- $79,175
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 50
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Renard Bridgewater
Engagement Coordinator
- Total calculated
- $38,500
- From this org
- $38,500
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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Hannah Kreiger-Benson
Program Coordinator
- Total calculated
- $34,575
- From this org
- $34,575
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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Nate Cameron Jr
Board President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Alice Blackwell
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Renata Raphael Robertson
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Andriu Yanovski
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Hirsh Katzen
Board Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Rev Melanie Morel-Ensminger
Board Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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
- $199,003
- Expenses
- $206,296
- Contributions
- $199,003
- Grants paid
- $13,367
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2022
- Revenue
- $279,225
- Expenses
- $212,300
- Contributions
- $279,225
- 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
- Revenue
- $225,713
- Expenses
- $291,363
- Assets (EOY)
- $28,128
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $330,771
- Expenses
- $237,206
- Assets (EOY)
- $93,778
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2015
- Tax period
- 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
- Principal officer
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Ethan Ellestad
- Mailing address
- 828 Royal St PMB 237New Orleans LA 70116
- Website
- www.maccno.com
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
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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2023 PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES & ASSOCIATIONS AND ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES N.E.C.
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THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION
$104,861
2022 ARTS/CULTURE
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$85,000
2023 FISCAL SPONSOR
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$37,914
2022 RACIAL EQUITY
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2023 ARTS/CULTURE
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2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$15,000
2022 HURRICANE IDA
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$15,000
2024 FISCAL SPONSOR
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$10,000
2023 CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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2024 COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP GRANT - TO MAKE QUALITY ARTS PROGRAMS ACCESSIBLE THROUGHOUT LOUISIANA AND SUPPORT THE ARTISTS AND NONPROFITS THAT CREATE THEM.
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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 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.