SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCOURMT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A6BZ

Classification

1200

Street

3504 BROOKWOOD DR

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).

Group exemption

A subordinate covered by the group exemption of SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET (EIN 39-0926339). matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2025

• Music Programs: The Mid-Atlantic District produces three to four conventions every year, where District chapter choruses and registered quartets compete to qualify for District honors and to compete at annual international conventions. In 2025 around 1100 friends, family and fans attended these conventions. The District qualified five choruses and 12 quartets for international competition. Contests are adjudicated by certified judges who donate their time and effort to evaluate the artists and help them improve their artistry. After the contest, the judges provide feedback and coaching to the competitors, which is a significant component of the contest experience.

  Expenses $92,929 · Revenue $92,304

• Music Education: Dozens of highly qualified volunteers conduct educational programs targeted at all age levels. The largest program, Harmony College East (HCE), offering more than 40 classes and seminars during a 3-day weekend event attended by more than 200 men and women of all ages. Students, including music educators, directors, arrangers and enthusiasts, learn singing, quarteting, composition, arranging, show production and directors sharpen their directing skills. This year, twelve HCE full scholarships were provided to music educators. Partial scholarships were provided to six high achieving quartets preparing for the BHS International Convention. Coaching support was provided through the year to quartets and chapter choruses through a grant program that offsets a portion of the coach's expenses. The District has a strong youth barbershop program that encourages youth quartets and ensembles through music educator engagement, coaching and Youth Adjudications. For 2025, the District provided support for 5 youth harmony events. The District also provided 3 activity grants to support Chapter activities.

  Expenses $89,913 · Grants $15,840 · Revenue $58,837

• Competitor Support: The District supports its high-achieving quartets and choruses that compete at the international level. In 2025 the District provided $4,100 to 5 chorus and 14 quartets.

  Expenses $4,100 · Grants $4,100

• Leadership Education: In addition to music education, the District provides management and leadership training to chapter and District leadership. The training sessions provide chapter leaders with the latest information and thinking on chapter management. Many sessions have now been recorded and are available on-line. The District also sends its leadership to the annual Society leadership forum that trains and cultivates future leaders in leadership skills, understanding of mission/vision, planning, program prioritization and best practices that will support chapters, choruses and quartets in our District.

  Expenses $798

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $219,190

  Expenses

  $197,796

  Contributions

  $24,412

  Grants paid

  $19,940

• 2024

  Revenue

  $183,016

  Expenses

  $171,548

  Contributions

  $30,204

  Grants paid

  $22,143

• 2023

  Revenue

  $191,729

  Expenses

  $155,385

  Contributions

  $44,828

  Grants paid

  $22,329

• 2022

  Revenue

  $137,763

  Expenses

  $154,466

  Contributions

  $53,727

  Grants paid

  $13,477

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

  $73,354

  Expenses

  $30,589

  Assets (EOY)

  $185,363

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $57,684

  Expenses

  $26,480

  Assets (EOY)

  $142,598

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $219,152

  Expenses

  $254,316

  Assets (EOY)

  $116,295

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $217,648

  Expenses

  $219,715

  Assets (EOY)

  $149,132

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $248,502

  Expenses

  $249,183

  Assets (EOY)

  $153,028

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $247,663

  Expenses

  $280,234

  Assets (EOY)

  $148,906

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $281,864

  Expenses

  $277,266

  Assets (EOY)

  $182,923

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $267,752

  Expenses

  $257,052

  Assets (EOY)

  $176,897

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $274,645

  Expenses

  $271,994

  Assets (EOY)

  $165,455

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $265,461

  Assets (EOY)

  $158,754

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.

Grants made

• Seneca Valley High School

  $8,000

  2024 · Grant funding provided to support travel by school choral group to participate in the BHS Mid-Winter convention youth chorus festival.

• Harmony Foundation International Inc

  $5,374

  2025 · Grants to Mid-Atlantic District Endowment Fund to provide educational scholarships to musical directors, adult quartets, youth ensembles, and contest judges to attend educational, instruction, and coaching classes for the purpose of enhancing/improving skills.

• Harmony Foundation International

  $5,175

  2022 · Grants to Mid-Atlantic District Endowment Fund to provide educational scholarships to musical directors, adult quartets, youth ensembles, and contest judges to attend educational, instruction, and coaching classes for the purpose of enhancing/improving skills.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL IN C

  $35,098

  2022 · ENRICH SINGING ORGANIZATIONS

• HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL IN C

  $21,893

  2024 · ENRICH SINGING ORGANIZATIONS

• HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL IN C

  $21,471

  2023 · ENRICH SINGING ORGANIZATIONS

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