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TUCSON DESERT SONG FESTIVAL

EIN 27-3777745 TUCSON, AZ

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Revenue 2024
$367,443
Expenses 2024
$271,418

Program services were 85.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A60
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 65866

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 BRING EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCES FROM WORLD CLASS VOCAL ARTISTS TO TUCSON THROUGH AN ANNUAL SONG FESTIVAL AND OFFER EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO EDUCATE ABOUT CLASSICAL VOCAL LITERATURE THROUGH AN ANNUAL SONG FESTIVAL AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS.

  • FROM JULY 1, 2024 TO JUNE 30, 2025 THE ORGANIZATION COORDINATED, SUBSIDIZED AND PUBLICIZED THE PRESENTATIONS THAT MAKE UP OUR ANNUAL SONG FESTIVAL. DURING OUR FESTIVAL SEASON THE ARIZONA OPERA, BALLET TUCSON, TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TRUE CONCORD, TUCSON GUITAR SOCIETY, ARIZONA EARLY MUSIC SOCIETY, THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA/ARIZONA ARTS LIVE, ARIZONA THEATER COMPANY AND THE TUCSON JAZZ FESTIVAL/JAZZ IN JANUARY PRESENTED PROGRAMS SUBSIDIZED BY OUR GRANTS. WE ALSO WERE ABLE TO SUBSIDIZE ARIZONA FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC IN THEIR PRESENTATION OF THE WORLD PREMIERE OF A COMPOSITION WRITTEN BY JOHN CORIGLIONE, PERFORMED BY JOSHUA BELL ON VIOLIN, ADAM NIELSEN ON PIANO AND SUNG BY LARISA MARTINEZ.

    Expenses $232,990 · Grants $145,750 · Revenue $1,260

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.

  • Eric Ahlstrom

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Karen Bahnick

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Marlys Beider

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jean Cooper

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • William Coulter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Andrea Crane

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Ludwig Deppisch

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Khris Dodge

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Patricia Engels

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • John Forsythe III

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Linda Fulgenzi

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Rosie Garcia

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Theodore Hariton MD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Mary Koss

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Nancy March

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Susan Markovich

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Juliana Osinchuk

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Glenn Paris

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Julia Pernet

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Herschel Rosenzweig

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Diana Varecka

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Timothy Varecka

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Karen Wadman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Andrew Watson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jeannette Segel

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

The first 25 listed. 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
    $367,443
    Expenses
    $271,418
    Contributions
    $323,039
    Grants paid
    $145,750
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $346,178
    Expenses
    $291,459
    Contributions
    $315,385
    Grants paid
    $121,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $72,324
    Expenses
    $28,620
    Contributions
    $66,927
    Grants paid
    $1,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $322,342
    Expenses
    $254,677
    Contributions
    $302,274
    Grants paid
    $95,000

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
    $363,033
    Expenses
    $235,703
    Assets (EOY)
    $629,643
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $316,065
    Expenses
    $91,940
    Assets (EOY)
    $508,939
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $357,196
    Expenses
    $256,551
    Assets (EOY)
    $284,814
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $306,125
    Expenses
    $312,419
    Assets (EOY)
    $184,364
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $204,097
    Expenses
    $212,026
    Assets (EOY)
    $258,957

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

  • 2023 SUBSIDIZE PERFORMANCES; MASTER CLASS; LEADING VOCAL ARTIST

  • 2022 SUBSIDIZE PERFORMANCES AND MASTER CLASS FEATURING LEADING VOCAL ARTIST

  • 2024 SUBSIDIZE PERFORMANCES; MASTER CLASS; LEADING VOCAL ARTIST

  • 2024 SUBSIDIZE PERFORMANCES FEATURING LEADING VOCAL ARTISTS

  • 2022 SUBSIDIZE PERFORMANCES FEATURING LEADING VOCAL ARTISTS

  • TUCSON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

    $18,000

    2024 SUBSIDIZE GUITAR INSTRUCTIONS AND GUITARS FOR TUSD SCHOOLS

  • 2022 SUBSIDIZE PERFORMANCES FEATURING LEADING VOCAL ARTISTS

  • 2024 SUBSIDIZE PERFORMANCES; MASTER CLASS; LEADING VOCAL ARTIST

  • 2023 SUBSIDIZE PERFORMANCES FEATURING LEADING VOCAL ARTISTS

  • ARIZONA ARTS LIVE

    $15,000

    2023 SUBSIDIZE PERFORMANCES FEATURING LEADING VOCAL ARTISTS

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

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