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BACKBONE LAKE PROMOTION ASSOCIATION INC

EIN 42-1291645 STRAWBERRY PT, IA

Revenue 2024
$96,197
Expenses 2024
$82,494

Program services were 0.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 438

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

Primary exempt purpose

PROMOTE CHARITABLE & EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE

  • STRAWBERRY POINT JAM CAMP SERVED 56 STUDENTS/SONGWRITERS. 5 PRIOR YEAR STUDENTS SERVED AS ASSISTANT INSTRUCTORS. THOSE SERVED REPRESENTED 36 COMMUNITIES FROM 5 STATES.

  • PLAY IT FORWARD IOWA PROVIDED ACCESS TO BLUEGRASS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND 3 MENTORS TO 52 STUDENTS, AGES 8-21 YEARS OLD.

  • BACKBONE BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL SERVED 975+ FESTIVAL ATTENDEES FROM 20 STATES PROMOTING & PRESERVING BLUEGRASS MUSIC. FREE BLUEGRASS INSTRUMENT WORKSHOPS HELD DURING FESTIVAL.

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.

  • NANCY BERGER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STEVE DIKKERS

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • LINZY E MARTIN

    EVENT DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • ISABELLE SASSMAN

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • ELAINE SADLER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • MICHELLE DIKKERS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VICKY PEASY

    DIRECTOR

    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
    $96,197
    Expenses
    $82,494
    Contributions
    $40,965
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $81,177
    Expenses
    $80,047
    Contributions
    $15,007
    Grants paid
    not reported

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022

Tax period
1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
Principal officer
Nancy Berger
Mailing address
PO Box 438Strawberry Point IA 52076
Website
www.backbonebluegrass.com

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 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

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.