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RENOVARE MUSIC INC

EIN 83-3810783 SHAKER HTS, OH

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Revenue 2024
$210,060
Expenses 2024
$184,207

Program services were 76.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A6C
Classification
1270
Street
PO BOX 201625

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

Sharing music at the highest level of artistry in diverse settings and innovative programs to love our neighbor affirm the value of all people and cultivate reconciled communities.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Renovare Music bridges divided communities and creates restorative experiences through music storytelling and relationships. The principal musicians teach strings classes at two prisons in northeast Ohio perform interactive concerts and lead worship events either in marginalized spaces or with the goal of reconnecting siloed communities and lead collaborative songwriting projects with underestimated people.

  • Strings classes in prisons: Renovare teaches violin viola and cello to residents at two Northeast Ohio prisons. These weekly classes provide an opportunity for participants to learn together build community exercise discipline develop confidence in performing for others and grow in self-esteem and self-expression. Participants also develop music literacy and technical skill in playing their instruments which are provided by Renovare but kept in the care of the inmates for the duration of their participation to allow them to practice daily. Renovare continued teaching Unmuted and Music for the Soul our weekly classes for men at the Grafton Correctional Institution and for women at the Northeast Reintegration Center respectively throughout 2024. Between the two programs Renovare led 99 classes in 2024 with a total of 40 participants. Both programs performed multiple times for other inmates at their prisons as well as for family and outside guests.

    Expenses $51,626

  • Performances and worship events: Renovare shares music stories and leads worship in a wide variety of venues. About 75% of our performances take place in marginalized spaces ex. prisons homeless shelters hospitals. The remainder of our performances occur in venues ranging from concert halls to community gardens with an emphasis on connecting communities that are siloed from one another. Renovares fresh creative voice spans artistic genres and invites audiences everywhere into meaningful connection through interactive musical experiences. Renovares focus is on our Northeast Ohio community which is where almost all of the 82 concerts and worship events we performed in 2024 took place. Over 4,800 attendees experienced these events last year where they were offered a taste of the restorative and transformative love of God through the unique and powerful mediums of music and relationship.

    Expenses $59,853 · Revenue $7,117

  • Creation of original Documentary Songs: Documentary Songwriting is a method of co-writing music that fosters empathy boosts self-confidence and strengthens community. It demystifies creativity and allows someone with no musical background to express themselves through high-quality songs docsong.org. This method was developed over a decade ago by composer Malcolm Brooks PhD. His work can be heard on PBS Nova and the History Channel and has garnered two Emmy nominations and a Peabody Award. Renovare undertakes Documentary Songwriting projects with people whose perspectives have often been marginalized or gone unheard. We believe that all people are worthy of dignity and respect and that in order to better love our neighbors we must listen well to them. We then invite the broader community to listen well with us sharing these songs in thoughtfully curated concerts to increase understanding and inspire action. In 2024 Renovare wrote 9 Documentary Songs with 9 community members many of whom testified to the healing and empowerment that took place for them through the songwriting process.

    Expenses $29,538

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.

  • Rebecca Shasberger

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $42,500
    From this org
    $42,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kathleen Derwin

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Melissa Riccio

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Eric Harmon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Jesurun

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $210,060
    Expenses
    $184,207
    Contributions
    $216,316
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $174,055
    Expenses
    $148,558
    Contributions
    $168,088
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $134,966
    Expenses
    $89,572
    Contributions
    $122,616
    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
    $58,331
    Expenses
    $42,500
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,894

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 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Kathe Derwin
Mailing address
PO Box 201625SHAKER HEIGHTS OH 44120
Website
renovaremusic.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.