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WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE

EIN 92-3445513 BLACK MTN, NC

Revenue 2024
$955,019
Expenses 2024
$1,185,439

Program services were 77.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
1000
Street
105C MONTREAT RD

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

PROVIDING CULTURAL, ARTISTIC, HISTORIC, OR EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES WITH A FOCUS ON LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE, AS WELL AS PROVIDING A VENUE FOR OTHER CHARITABLE AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SEE SCHEDULE O

  • HOLDING MUSICAL PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS WITH A FOCUS ON EDUCATION AND AWARENESS OF THE CULTURE, HISTORY, AND DEVELOPMENT OF VARIOUS GENRES OF MUSIC AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCES. DURING 2024, WESTERN NC SUSTAINED SIGNIFICANT DESTRUCTION FOLLOWING HURRICANE HELENE. WHSS BECAME A HUB FOR DISASTER RELIEF, HOLDING EVENTS TO SUPPORT AND PARTNER WITH AREA NONPROFITS IN RELIEF AND RECOVERY EFFORTS.

    Expenses $914,909

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.

  • DOUG ORR

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • GARETH HIGGINS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • AMY KIM KYREMES-PARKS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • RAMSEY HINKLE

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • THOMAS BROWN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JUSTICE RODGERS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • CECILY HINES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • ANN WHITE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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
    $955,019
    Expenses
    $1,185,439
    Contributions
    $775,562
    Grants paid
    $135,310
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $144,630
    Expenses
    $127,325
    Contributions
    $144,630
    Grants paid
    $1,800

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.

Grants made

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