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GUITARS IN THE CLASSROOM

EIN 71-1013691 SAN DIEGO, CA

Revenue 2024
$682,637
Expenses 2024
$917,319

Program services were 92.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A68
Classification
2100
Street
1286 UNIVERSITY AVE 389

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

TO PROVIDE MUSIC INTEGRATION TRAINING, PROGRAMS AND ARTIST RESIDENCIES TO TEACHERS, GRADES TK-6

  • GUITARS IN THE CLASSROOM (GITC) CONTINUES TO REACH OVER A QUARTER OF A MILLION STUDENTS EACH YEAR BY TRAINING THEIR TEACHERS TO LEAD IN MUSIC RELATED INSTRUCTION WITHIN THE CLASSROOM. GITC HAS PROVIDED TEACHERS AT PRIMARILY LOWER ECONOMIC SITUATION SCHOOLS WITH FREE GUITARS, UKELELES MUSICAL ACCESSORIES, MATERIALS AND FREE MUSIC LESSONS AND WORKSHOPS WITH INTEGRATION INTO REGULAR AND SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSROOM LEARNING CURRICULUM. GITC HAS RECEIVED AND EXPENDED DONATED ADVERTISING SERVICES IN THE AMOUNT OF $10,920. THIS IS REFLECTED IN THE INTERNAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND NOT RECORDED AS REVENUE OR EXPENSE ON THE 990 TAX RETURN.

    Expenses $850,919

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.

  • JESSICA BARON

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $106,600
    From this org
    $106,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • SCOTT FISCHEL

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JOHN UNGER

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • RUTH HALLER

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MIMI SENEY

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRISTOPHER CLARKE

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MOLLY STEWART

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TOM DOUGHERTY

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RAMI YANI

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DESIREE ROBLES

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LARRY MITCHELL

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RAND ROGNLIEN

    Director

    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
    $682,637
    Expenses
    $917,319
    Contributions
    $465,663
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,057,247
    Expenses
    $1,196,324
    Contributions
    $782,288
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,053,992
    Expenses
    $936,855
    Contributions
    $843,593
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,053,992
    Expenses
    $936,855
    Contributions
    $843,593
    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
    $1,215,944
    Expenses
    $895,227
    Assets (EOY)
    $656,339

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $540,005
    Expenses
    $588,485
    Assets (EOY)
    $388,563

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $261,505
    Expenses
    $504,768
    Assets (EOY)
    $436,071

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $400,255
    Expenses
    $497,774
    Assets (EOY)
    $650,249

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $255,771
    Expenses
    $318,897
    Assets (EOY)
    $750,454

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $355,678
    Expenses
    $416,115
    Assets (EOY)
    $812,132

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $204,638
    Expenses
    $208,225
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,957,052

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $297,628
    Assets (EOY)
    $113,918

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

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.