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COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF BUFFALO

EIN 16-0755757 BUFFALO, NY

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Revenue 2023
$590,756
Expenses 2023
$732,704

Program services were 86.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A6E0
Classification
2000
Street
217 E DELAVAN AVE

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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Community Music School is committed to providing quality music instruction for individuals of all ages and levels of ability regardless of aspirations or financial resources and providing musical public service programs to the Western New York area

Activities or mission (Part I)

The School is committed to providing quality music instruction for individuals of all ages and levels of ability regardless of aspirations or financial resources and providing musical public service programs to the Western New York area.

  • General Arts Education Program - To provide quality music instruction for individuals of all ages and levels of ability regardless of aspirations or financial resources.

    Expenses $631,826 · Revenue $436,801

  • Extension Outreach - To provide musical public service programs to the community in the form of performances in various locations throughout Western New York Area.

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.

  • Ashish Vikram

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Molly Chvala

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kristopher Duge

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dave Hunt

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Markenzy Cesar

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennifer Guillow

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $66,409
    From this org
    $66,409
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ellen Harris-Harvey

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeanine Roberts

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Artrell Williams

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Paul Waara

    Trustee

    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $590,756
    Expenses
    $732,704
    Contributions
    $130,689
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $498,574
    Expenses
    $630,264
    Contributions
    $84,901
    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
    $369,245
    Expenses
    $524,265
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,191,112

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $327,390
    Expenses
    $275,544
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,177,199

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,435,415
    Expenses
    $536,902
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,030,723

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $402,131
    Expenses
    $478,909
    Assets (EOY)
    $247,547

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $508,237
    Expenses
    $516,359
    Assets (EOY)
    $329,137

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $508,237
    Expenses
    $516,359
    Assets (EOY)
    $329,137

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $370,853
    Expenses
    $479,394
    Assets (EOY)
    $327,838

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $771,515
    Expenses
    $487,480
    Assets (EOY)
    $522,789

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $386,297
    Expenses
    $427,384
    Assets (EOY)
    $235,639

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $421,570
    Expenses
    $470,727
    Assets (EOY)
    $315,408

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

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

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.