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B B KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPRETIVE CENTER

EIN 46-0501512 INDIANOLA, MS

Revenue 2023
$2,383,222
Expenses 2023
$1,641,756

Program services were 63.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A50
Classification
2000
Street
400 SECOND STREET

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

TO OPERATE A MUSEUM HONORING BLUESMAN B.B KING, WHICH PRESERVES AND SHARES THE LEGACY AND VALUES OF BB KING, CELEBRATES THE RICH CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA, AND PROMOTES PRIDE, HOPE, AND UNDERSTANDING THROUGH EXHIBITIONS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS.

  • TO ESTABLISH AND ADMINISTER A MUSEUM TO BE KNOWN AS THE B.B KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPRETIVE CENTER. THROUGH ITS AUTHENTIC PRESENTATION AND INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS, PERFORMANCE VENUES AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING, THE B.B. KING MUSEUM SEEKS TO PRESERVE DELTA BLUES HERITAGE, ENCOURAGE AND INSPIRE YOUNG ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS, AND USE THE ARTS TO ENRICH THE LIVES OF DELTA YOUTH AND ALL THOSE WHO VISIT THE MUSEUM CAMPUS.

    Expenses $1,038,806

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.

  • MALIKA POLK-LEE

    Executive Direc

    Total calculated
    $100,000
    From this org
    $100,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • JOHN W MCPHERSON

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JOHNNY MCWILLIAMS

    ATTORNEY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • MARGARET CLARK

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • ORLANDO VARLEE

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JODY MOOR

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • VERNA RANSOM

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JAMIE MURRELL

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • MELISSA TOWNSEND

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • CAROL PUCKETT

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • BRYANT KIMBROUGH

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • ANDY DANIELS

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JOHN RODGERS BRASHIER

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • DR ALPHONSO SANDERS

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • DELORES BOLDEN STAMPS

    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,383,222
    Expenses
    $1,641,756
    Contributions
    $2,313,447
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,729,069
    Expenses
    $1,459,777
    Contributions
    $1,745,602
    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
    $2,456,428
    Expenses
    $1,276,522
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,380,696

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,421,962
    Expenses
    $1,044,859
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,467,596

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,255,146
    Expenses
    $1,038,505
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,308,429

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $924,765
    Expenses
    $1,151,438
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,109,851

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $992,700
    Expenses
    $1,172,395
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,335,574

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $992,700
    Expenses
    $1,172,395
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,335,574

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $769,586
    Expenses
    $1,225,543
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,518,009

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,114,225
    Expenses
    $1,324,251
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,183,010

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $927,602
    Expenses
    $1,664,523
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,404,874

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,675,510
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,770,131

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2023 return

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.