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NOTES FOR NOTES INCORPORATED

EIN 20-4875556 SANTA BARBARA, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2024
$3,693,487
Expenses 2024
$3,110,591

Program services were 85.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A27
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 90632

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

Mission

To provide youth with free access to musical instruments, instruction, and a music-making environment so that music can become a profoundly positive influence in their lives.

  • In 2024 N4N served 9,385 youth nationwide across our 30 studios open by end of year with a total of 55K+ hours of recording sessions,?lessons and music enrichment. N4N opened (3) news studios in Milwaukee (2 of which were located inside public charter schools), a new studio in Covenant House Georgia in Atlanta serving homeless youth, and a 4th studio in Nashville at the Boys and Girls Club of Middle Tennessee Franklin Clubhouse. And in continuation of our vision to recruit alumni of our program into paid positions in the organization, we added (2) new team members in Nashville that were formally members in the program.

    Expenses $2,644,593

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Philip Gilley

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $97,456
    From this org
    $97,456
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Roderick Hare

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ian Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Natalie Noone

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matt Kettman

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Evan Skopp

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Cuellar

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Duncan Dashiff

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amilcar Welton

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,693,487
    Expenses
    $3,110,591
    Contributions
    $3,619,118
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,984,788
    Expenses
    $2,782,380
    Contributions
    $2,958,757
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,771,612
    Expenses
    $2,013,837
    Contributions
    $1,784,743
    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
    $2,515,834
    Expenses
    $1,958,484
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,688,504

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,218,234
    Expenses
    $2,088,954
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,428,618

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,978,489
    Expenses
    $2,168,164
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,600,046

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,807,654
    Expenses
    $2,160,342
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,961,926

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,200,590
    Expenses
    $1,854,222
    Assets (EOY)
    $891,230

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,545,814
    Expenses
    $1,291,660
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,537,258

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,433,504
    Expenses
    $938,564
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,271,908

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $905,634
    Expenses
    $473,114
    Assets (EOY)
    $724,326

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $490,459
    Expenses
    $378,965
    Assets (EOY)
    $287,666

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $250,055
    Assets (EOY)
    $169,726

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2007

Tax period
1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007
Principal officer
Roderick C Hare
Mailing address
PO Box 90632Santa Barbara CA 93190
Website
notesfornotes.org

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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.