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TENNESSEE MUSIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

EIN 20-3325550 MURFREESBORO, TN

Revenue 2024
$461,553
Expenses 2024
$404,523

Program services were 97.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B03
Classification
1200
Street
2441-Q OLD FORT PARKWAY 635

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).

Group exemption

The central organization of an IRS group exemption (group number 6053), covering 2 subordinate organizations. matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE NBSP;ORGANIZATION NBSP;PROMOTES NBSP;THE NBSP;ADVANCEMENT NBSP;OF NBSP;HIGH-QUALITY NBSP;MUSIC NBSP;EDUCATION NBSP;FOR NBSP;ALL

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE ORGANIZATION PROMOTES THE ADVANCEMENT OF HIGH QUALITY MUSIC EDUCATION FOR ALL.

  • TENNESSEE MUSIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (TMEA) REPRESENTS ALL PHASES OF MUSIC EDUCATION AT ALL SCHOOL LEVELS. TMEA ENCOURAGES AND PROVIDES STUDENTS WITH OPPORTUNITIES FOR HIGH QUALITY MUSIC EXPERIENCES ACTIVELY PROMOTES AND PROVIDES THE BEST RESOURCES FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENCOURAGES LIFELONG LEARNING IN MUSIC. TMEA PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR SHARING AND DISSEMINATING INFORMATION RESOURCES AND TEACHING STRATEGIES AND STRIVES TO BE A LEADING ADVOCATE FOR MUSIC EDUCATION AT THE LOCAL REGIONAL AND STATE LEVELS. TMEA CONFERENCES AND PUBLICATION OF THE TENNESSEE MUSICIAN UPHOLD THE MISSION OF PROMOTING THE ADVANCEMENT OF HIGH-QUALITY MUSIC EDUCATION FOR ALL.

    Expenses $373,506 · Revenue $364,714

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.

  • MICHAEL CHESTER

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $20,960
    From this org
    $20,960
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • JOEL DENTON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ALEXIS YATUZIS-DERRYBERRY

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • J R BAKER

    PRESIDENT-ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LAFE COOK

    IMMEDIATE-PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LINZIE MULLINS

    STATE GENERAL MUSIC CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ADRIAN MACLIN

    STATE CHORAL CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LORI MCDERMOTT

    STATE ORCHESTRA CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BENJAMIN EASLEY

    STATE BAND CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • FRANK ZIMMERER

    STATE JAZZ BAND CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • REGGIE COLEMAN

    STATE MIDDLE SCHOOLS CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID AYDELOTT

    RURAL SCHOOLS CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NOLA JONES

    URBAN SCHOOLS CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • REGINALD MCDONALD

    EQUITY IN MUSIC CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $461,553
    Expenses
    $404,523
    Contributions
    $96,709
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $441,617
    Expenses
    $458,963
    Contributions
    $106,965
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $427,979
    Expenses
    $443,460
    Contributions
    $124,918
    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
    $315,637
    Expenses
    $309,613
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,374

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $96,503
    Expenses
    $118,128
    Assets (EOY)
    $83,350

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $163,572
    Expenses
    $195,466
    Assets (EOY)
    $104,975

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $362,647
    Expenses
    $379,540
    Assets (EOY)
    $137,389

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $363,057
    Expenses
    $344,570
    Assets (EOY)
    $154,282

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $329,502
    Expenses
    $308,451
    Assets (EOY)
    $135,796

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $295,119
    Expenses
    $304,345
    Assets (EOY)
    $113,665

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $197,845
    Expenses
    $212,598
    Assets (EOY)
    $128,095

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $209,220
    Expenses
    $191,519
    Assets (EOY)
    $137,553

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $200,284
    Assets (EOY)
    $125,037

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

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 GROUP.

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