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ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC

EIN 20-4218706 NEW ORLEANS, LA

Revenue 2024
$1,413,482
Expenses 2024
$2,504,191

Program services were 86.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P28
Classification
1000
Street
1901 BARTHOLOMEW ST

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 OVERSEE THE OPERATION OF A COMMUNITY CENTER/PERFORMANCE HALL/RECORDING STUDIO AND TO TEACH MUSIC/DANCE/COMPUTER LITERACY TO CHILDREN, TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS AND OTHER PERFORMING ARTISTS AND TO INTERACT WITH RESIDENTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO OVERSEE THE OPERATION OF A COMMUNITY CENTER/PERFORMANCE HALL/RECORDING STUDIO. THE CENTER BROADENS OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERSERVED CHILDREN, YOUTH AND MUSICIANS. THE CENTER PROVIDES A SAFE, POSITIVE ENVIRONMENT WHERE CHILDREN CAN DEVELOP MUSICALLY, ACADEMICALLY AND SOCIALLY. THE CENTER ALSO DELIVERS STRATEGIC ASSISTANCE AND TOOLS TO VILLAGE MUSICIANS THAT CAN ENHANCE THEIR PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND OFFERS OPPORTUNITIES FOR MUSICIANS THROUGHOUT NEW ORLEANS.

  • DURING 2024, THE USE OF THE CENTER'S RECORDING FACILITIES AND PERFORMANCE SPACE CONTINUED TO BE USED FOR PRODUCTION TRAINING PROGRAMS, MUSICIAN'S ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS, ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT, HOMEWORK ASSISTANCE, INDEPENDENT STUDY PROJECTS, CULTURAL ENRICHMENT AND COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE.

    Expenses $2,168,711 · Revenue $56,095

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.

  • ANN MARIE WILKINS

    CHAIRPERSON & PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • HARRY CONNICK JR

    BOARD DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • BRANFORD MARSALIS

    BOARD DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • TRACEY FREEMAN

    BOARD DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • W GARNER ROBINSON

    BOARD DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANDREW R LEE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • MICHAEL J SIEGEL

    BOARD DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JACK LEAHY

    BOARD DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARTHA MURPHY

    BOARD DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CELINE LEFEBVRE

    BOARD DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • HAYLEY CROWN

    BOARD DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARK A MAYER

    BOARD DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GRETCHEN F CHASE

    BOARD DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANN CUIELLETTE-MARR

    BOARD DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • WAYNETTE DABNEY

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $132,796
    From this org
    $121,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,796
    Hours/week
    40

  • DARYL DICKERSON

    DIRECTOR OF MUSIC

    Total calculated
    $116,715
    From this org
    $115,374
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,341
    Hours/week
    40

  • MICHAEL TORREGANO

    ASST MUSIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $103,254
    From this org
    $103,254
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,413,482
    Expenses
    $2,504,191
    Contributions
    $1,281,683
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,701,507
    Expenses
    $2,462,654
    Contributions
    $1,600,632
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,757,973
    Expenses
    $2,166,000
    Contributions
    $2,588,441
    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
    $1,543,651
    Expenses
    $2,229,325
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,484,961

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,824,146
    Expenses
    $2,205,432
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,995,036

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,233,940
    Expenses
    $2,198,461
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,057,537

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.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.