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GREAT BEND CENTER FOR MUSIC

EIN 82-1699863 UNION, WA

Largest nonprofits in Washington

Revenue 2023
$380,940
Expenses 2023
$385,540

Program services were 68.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W99
Classification
1000
Street
131 E HAVENRIDGE DR 501

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 · 2023

Mission

MUSIC THAT BUILDS COMMUNITYGREAT BEND CENTER FOR MUSIC DESIGNS AND OFFERS RESEARCHED-BASED PROGRAMS THAT HELP PEOPLE USE MUSIC TO FIND COMMON CAUSE, NOURISH TRUST, AND ADDRESS COMMUNITY CHALLENGES. OUR PROGRAMS FALL INTO THREE BUCKETS, EDUCATIONAL EQUITY, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND MUSIC TO BUILD HEALTH AND WELLNESS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Sound Scholars: Great Bends flagship early learning program is Sound Scholars, an entirely online, research-based early learning program that uses music to build kindergarten readiness. Designed originally to serve rural families without access to high quality early learning in our Olympic Peninsula home, the program is as accessible as it is rigorous. Delivered via lively interactive Zoom sessions, students participate on laptops, tablets and cell phones in bedrooms, living rooms and minivans. Each fast-paced, 30-minute session focuses on preparing kids for ensemble participation (learning teamwork) and includes age-appropriate ear training, music literacy, ensemble practice, songcraft, vocabulary, listening, and leadership activities with a strong STEM focus and a range of daily Social Emotional Learning (SEL) activities.

  • Sound Scholars Early Learning ProgramGreat Bends flagship early learning program is Sound Scholars, an entirely online, research-based early learning program that uses music to build kindergarten readiness and pro-social learning skills. Designed originally to serve rural families without access to high quality early learning in our Olympic Peninsula home, the program is delivered via lively, interactive Zoom sessions and students as young as 2 participate on laptops, tablets and cell phones in bedrooms, living rooms and minivans. Each fast-paced, 30-minute session focuses on preparing kids for ensemble participation (learning teamwork) and includes age-appropriate ear training, music literacy, ensemble practice, songcraft, vocabulary, listening, and leadership activities with a strong STEM focus and a range of daily Social Emotional Learning (SEL) activities. In the past year, the program was ported from English into Spanish, and the Mayan languages of Mam and Qanjobal as part of a partnership with the Shelton School District to better engage our large migrant population.

    Expenses $205,254 · Grants $23,230 · Revenue $270,160

  • Great Bend Chorale & Youth Chorale - Community Music ProgramGreat Bends award-winning community ensembles are designed to build civic engagement by bringing together diverse and varied members from all throughout our community. For this reason there is no audition, and fees are on a sliding scale in order to maximize participation and build connections between less connected parts of our community while building community pride. In addition to their regular full year of programming, the Great Bend Chorale and Youth Chorale in this year accepted a Challenge America award from the National Endowment for the Arts to make their very first commercial recording, scheduled for release fall of 2025.

    Expenses $34,580 · Grants $28,253 · Revenue $14,491

  • Great Bend Chorale - Therapeutic Veterans ProgramThis past year, a new therapeutic element (in addition to previous programs like Memory Care Choir and Grief Choir) was added to partner with the local veterans tiny home village quite near the church where the choir rehearses. Those veterans were supported to not only sing with the Great Bend Chorale, but as part of their therapeutic process they curated a selection of poetry to be interspersed with the music in the concert that they felt represented their lived experiences as veterans. Those selections were then read by the veterans in the program during the concert performance. Additionally, the vets also participated in a recording session and received copies of their performances as keepsakes and to remember the therapeutic insights theyd gained.

    Expenses $22,252 · Grants $23,113

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Matthew Melendez-Blegen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $50,000
    From this org
    $50,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Erin Marinache

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Hadley Danielson

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nancy Bayley

    Treasurer

    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $380,940
    Expenses
    $385,540
    Contributions
    $92,583
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $202,114
    Expenses
    $205,640
    Contributions
    $190,172
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $574,418
    Expenses
    $400,403
    Assets (EOY)
    $259,694

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

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 November 2019, reinstated 15 November 2019.

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.