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CHAMBER MUSIC CHARLESTON

EIN 06-1778633 CHARLESTON, SC

Revenue 2025
$488,792
Expenses 2025
$471,756

Program services were 86.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A6B
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 80072

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 · 2025

Mission

Chamber Music Charleston is dedicated to developing the audience for classical music through chamber music concerts and educational programs of the highest caliber.

  • The organization presented over 63 individual chamber music concerts and educational programs.

    Expenses $408,840 · Revenue $488,792

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.

  • Sandra Nikolajevs

    President and Artistic Director

    Total calculated
    $105,900
    From this org
    $105,900
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Nelson Hicks

    Board Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Charles Tremann

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Angela Estes

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Jeff Foster

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Pamela Pollitt

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Sally Lovejoy

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Susan Parsons

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Rajan Govindan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Tom Lindstrom

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Griff Hogan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

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
    $488,792
    Expenses
    $471,756
    Contributions
    $323,078
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $435,776
    Expenses
    $415,527
    Contributions
    $291,968
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $413,355
    Expenses
    $401,921
    Contributions
    $238,402
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $413,355
    Expenses
    $401,921
    Contributions
    $238,402
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $379,757
    Expenses
    $347,445
    Contributions
    $245,467
    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
    $332,942
    Expenses
    $301,516
    Assets (EOY)
    $311,362

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $331,933
    Expenses
    $295,395
    Assets (EOY)
    $279,936

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

  • ARTS ETC

    $16,420

    2022 1. Series of in-school Classical Kids Performances at 3 Johns Island Elementary Schools: each 45 min.specifically for K-3 including intro to instruments, sing-a-long interaction piece and story set to music using "Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreno Played the Piano for President Lincoln" 2. Continuation of new program started at Haut Gap MS where Chamber musicians visit two individual strings classes for 3 consecutive weeks, once in fall and again in spring to perform for students, provide coaching and perform in rehearsals side-by-side with students

  • ARTS ETC

    $13,935

    2023 Year 1 - Chamber Music Charleston creates musical adaptation of original part (with permission from composer): $870 Chamber Music Charleston musicians record a string quartet practice recording for use as students prepare for the production. $2,175 Chamber Music Charleston musicians participate in one rehearsal with students (no more than 2 1/2 hours in length), dress rehearsal with students (no more than 2 1/2 hours in length), and final performance of the production. $2,175 Year 2: Chamber Music Charleston musicians work with select Haut Gap Middle School string students to prepare and perform music. CMC will visit the once a week for 6 consecutive weeks to work with the students as they prepare the music for the final production. The elementary school vocal students will be able to rehearse with the previous year's string quartet rehearsal recording as the select Middle School strings students learn the chamber ensemble parts. We would then bring the Middle School students, along

  • ARTS ETC

    $13,195

    2023 Chamber Music Charleston is requesting funds to support both a series of in-school Classical Kids Performances at three Johns Island Elementary Schools and also a series of residencies at Haut Gap Middle School. The in-school Classical Kids Performances would take place in late September or early October at Angel Oak, Frierson, and Mt. Zion Elementary Schools. Each performance is approximately 45 minutes in length and is specifically created for children in grades K-3 and 4-5. The program includes a basic introduction to the instruments (focusing on the SC Arts Curriculum Standards requested by the music teachers), a sing-along/audience interaction piece of music, and a story set to music. For the 2024-2025 season, CMC is creating a new program to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. The focal story of this program is "Dream Drum Girl by Newbery Award-winning author Margarita Engle. Inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, a Chinese-African-Cuban girl who broke Cuba's trad

  • DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

    $6,600

    2024 ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

  • DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

    $5,100

    2022 ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.