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CHORAL SOCIETY OF DURHAM INC

EIN 56-6070665 DURHAM, NC

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Revenue 2024
$257,943
Expenses 2024
$203,582

Program services were 70.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A6BZ
Classification
2000
Street
120 MORRIS 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).

Other organizations at this address

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

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Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

(1) to bring together singers and audiences who share a common interest in high-quality performance of time-honored choral masterworks and an ever-broadening range of excellent repertoire from many traditions; (2) to establish and maintain a standard of excellence in choral music performance; and (3) to ally musical experiences with the cultural development and enrichment of the community.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To unite singers and audiences in the joy of high-quality performance of time-honored choral masterworks and an ever-broadening range of excellent repertoire from many traditions.

  • Our 169 singers performed 12 times this year; sold over 1300 tickets at two concerts and offered the rest for free; performed in 11 different venues; collaborated with 10 groups; engaged 84 professional vocal soloists and instrumentalists; and featured 12 more soloists from within the choir. Ticketed concerts comprised a holiday concert at Duke Chapel on December 22, 2024 featuring selections including Conrad Susa's _Carols and Lullabies_ and a performance of Beethoven's _Missa Solemnis_ at Baldwin Auditorium on May 18, 2025. Free concerts included a jazz concert, a Chamber Choir concert, a community singalong of Handel's _Messiah_, and performances at Carolina Meadows CCRC and Pettigrew Rehabilitation Center. On May 31, 2025 we hosted the second annual Durham Community Sing, featuring 380 singers from eight other local choral groups and members of the community who wanted to join us, performing for 128 audience members in another free concert.

    Expenses $142,920 · Revenue $65,890

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.

  • Mary Parker

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Alex Engler

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sarah Wood

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Sara Shippee

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Kristin Webb

    Financial Development Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Jen Plumb Vilardaga

    Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Ginger Jones-Robinson

    At Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Korwind Stokes

    At Large

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $257,943
    Expenses
    $203,582
    Contributions
    $134,535
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $187,623
    Expenses
    $180,833
    Contributions
    $99,427
    Grants paid
    $348
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $272,197
    Expenses
    $166,640
    Contributions
    $204,433
    Grants paid
    $1,440

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
    $129,034
    Expenses
    $141,841
    Assets (EOY)
    $603,783

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $441,900
    Expenses
    $121,688
    Assets (EOY)
    $728,079

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $281,356
    Expenses
    $151,961
    Assets (EOY)
    $410,435

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $176,770
    Expenses
    $158,481
    Assets (EOY)
    $279,149

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $153,001
    Expenses
    $175,902
    Assets (EOY)
    $263,514

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $298,775
    Expenses
    $302,862
    Assets (EOY)
    $280,956

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $131,921
    Expenses
    $136,119
    Assets (EOY)
    $267,039

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $122,492
    Expenses
    $189,875
    Assets (EOY)
    $275,766

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $152,329
    Expenses
    $220,076
    Assets (EOY)
    $348,692

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $223,700
    Assets (EOY)
    $397,239

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2009

Tax period
1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010
Principal officer
Molly Terrenoire
Mailing address
120 Morris StreetDurham Arts CouncilDurham NC 27701
Website
www.choral-society.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 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

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 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.