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D C BLUES SOCIETY INC

EIN 52-1517733 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2024
$36,497
Expenses 2024
$27,849

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
Street
5335 WISCONSIN AVE NW STE 440

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

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

This address is a suite or unit (STE 440). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

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 · 2024

Primary exempt purpose

TO CELEBRATE, PRESERVE, AND PROMOTE THE BLUES AS AN ORIGINAL AMERICAN ART FORM.

  • THE MISSION OF DCBS IS TO KEEP THE BLUES MUSIC TRADITIONS OF THE WASHINGTON, DC AREA ALIVE THROUGH LIVE PERFORMANCES, OUTREACH AND EDUCATION. DCBS RELIES SOLELY UPON THE DEDICATION OF ITS VOLUNTEERS TO CARRY OUT ITS PROGRAM IN SUPPORT OF THIS MISSION. FUNDING COMES FROM MEMBERSHIP DUES, PRIVATE DONATIONS, SPONSORSHIPS, GRANTS, SALES OF MERCHANDISE, NEWLETTER ADVERISING AND EVENT TICKET SALES. DCBS CARRIES OUT ITS PROGRAMS WITH REGULAR FREE EVENTS THAT ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. IN ADDITION, DCBS ALSO HOSTS 2-3 CONCERTS PER YEAR WHERE ADMISSION IS CHARGED.

    Expenses $27,849

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Paloma Costa

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dorothy Hines

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Litwack

    PRESIDENT (AS OF 12/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ida Campbell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jim Barratt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kay Jewell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mary Rose Luceri

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Neumann

    PRESIDENT (ENDED 12/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lawrence Spiwak

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 12/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Patricia Bransford

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8
  • Adam Oppenheim

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8
  • Eric Getzinger

    VICE PRESIDENT

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $36,497
    Expenses
    $27,849
    Contributions
    $25,991
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $25,529
    Expenses
    $33,686
    Contributions
    $16,616
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $31,762
    Expenses
    $39,321
    Contributions
    $25,241
    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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $15,467
    Expenses
    $19,062
    Assets (EOY)
    $43,253
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $19,223
    Expenses
    $10,022
    Assets (EOY)
    $46,848

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Adam Oppenheim
Mailing address
PO BOX 6289WASHINGTON DC 20015

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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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