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COMPASS INC

EIN 26-2935577 COLUMBIA, MO

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Revenue 2025
$204,551
Expenses 2025
$207,106

Program services were 97.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A68
Classification
2000
Street
POC - 104 E BROADWAY TL

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

To provide aspiring musicians, singers and songwriters with access to programs that improve proficiency and success in their areas(s) of interest and expertise.

  • Compass Music Camp began in 2012. The program has had a total of 320 participants from 2012-2019 and 2022-2025. The camp is one week long and there have been 11 camp sessions. There were no activities held in 2020 and 2021. Camp session 13 will take place July 13, 2026.Music Camp is a seven day program focused on giving mid-Missouri youth the opportunity to learn, create, and perform. Camp participants will have instrument lessons; theory, history and songwriting classes; sound, recording, art, and social media workshops; screen printing, and band rehearsal. This program is designed for campers to experience the joy of writing and playing music led by musicians in our community. Musical equipment has been donated for temporary use each year. The equipment is used for band rehearsals, instrument lessons, workshops and classes. (drum sets, sound systems, microphones, recording studio equipment. DAddario Foundation has made in-kind donations 2012-2016.

    Expenses $91,843 · Revenue $93,110

  • Intergenerational Rock Band Choir began in 2022. The program has had a total of 297 participants from 2022-2025. The choir rehearses once each week for 8 weeks and there have been three sessions. The Compass Intergenerational Rock Band Choir is comprised of community members from ages 8-80 All participants will be singing as a choir backed by an instrumental band and will perform 12 songs that span from the 50s to now. No music training experience is needed to enjoy this fun and exciting musical program

    Expenses $85,241 · Revenue $86,418

  • Jam Night began in 2022. The program has had a total of 86 participants from 2022-2025. The program is two days and there have been 3 sessions. Jam Night is an overnight event for musical youth, ages 9-14. During this time, students will participate in music games, a songwriting class, karaoke, watch a music themed movie and split into small ensembles with a goal to write a song (or twoor more), that will be performed in the morning. Musical equipment has been donated for temporary use each session. The equipment is used for band rehearsals. (sound systems, microphones).

    Expenses $24,683 · Revenue $25,023

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.

  • Phylshawn Johnson

    Chair

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $204,551
    Expenses
    $207,106
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $350
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $191,057
    Expenses
    $167,678
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $350
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $136,979
    Expenses
    $130,535
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $350
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $90,679
    Expenses
    $314,878
    Contributions
    $10,000
    Grants paid
    $350

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
    $260,535
    Expenses
    $7,523
    Assets (EOY)
    $265,445

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 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Phylshawn Johnson
Mailing address
PO Box 30183Columbia MO 65205
Website
compasscolumbia.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

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2015, reinstated 15 May 2015.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.