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PAPPY MARTIN LEGACY JAZZ COLLECTIVE

EIN 83-1103609 BUFFALO, NY

Revenue 2024
$399,278
Expenses 2024
$289,588

Program services were 90.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A68
Classification
1200
Street
136 MERCER AVE

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

Our mission is to execute a multi-pronged approach to perpetuate the historical, cultural, spritual and artistic significance of Jazz for current and future generations through live performances and various other outreach programming.

  • PAPPY MARTIN LEGACY-MASTEN JAZZ FESTIVAL: The Annual Pappy Martin Legacy-Masten Jazz Festival presents ten live jazz performances during this free 2-day outdoor festival and is the most popular and well attended of our presentations. Held in the heart of Buffalo on the last two Sundays in July from 2pm-8pm, it continues to welcome one of the most diverse Western New York audiences. This years audience of approximately 3,500 attendees were treated to performances featuring 52 stellar Jazz artists that included two National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Masters Kenny Garrett and the late Louis Hayes, creating an impressive line-up. The festival offers an atmosphere within audience members have the opportunity to elevate their consciousness and love of a culture called jazz. By keeping the festival free, centrally located and open to all in the community it executes its mission to create opportunities for diverse community engagement.

    Expenses $103,845 · Grants $1,750

  • LOVE SUPREME SCHOOL OF MUSIC (LSSM): It is our belief that a young person does not have a complete education without the study of music. The LSSM; facilitated by our expert teaching artists, provide free piano, guitar, upright bass, trumpet, saxaphone, drum and vocal lessons to Buffalos inner-city youth (grades K-12) augmented by opportunities for overall musical development including performance experience. During 2024, over 100 school age students received free lessons, attended two Jazz history workshops and showcase their talents at the annual Winter Student Recital. By grooming the next generation of musicians and music appreciators, we help to ensure the longevity of this art form. The LSSM provides lessons at space donated by Lincoln Memorial United Methodist Church 641 Masten Avenue Buffalo, NY 14209.

    Expenses $94,468

  • CELESTIAL JAZZ WELLNESS SERIES: This program series addresses mental health wellness via Jazz by presenting free live jazz concerts throughout the year in the sacred setting of the inner-city church. During 2024, the series presented six free live Jazz concerts featuring international, national and local artists, including the Love Supreme School of Music students and faculty. These events exemplified our mission to support and showcase underrepresented, underserved and under-resourced musicians and communities. We remain committed to making the art form of jazz physically and financially accessible to the entire community. We believe Jazz is more than mere entertainment,and we provide this forum which audience members can experience and benefit from its spiritual, healing, uplifting and therapeutic power.

    Expenses $62,247

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • DAWN BERRY-WALKER

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $10,500
    From this org
    $10,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • ROSLYN OWENS

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $100
    From this org
    $100
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • DEBORAH CAHEE-CHRISTOPHER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLES CAMPBELL

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAY MARTIN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KENNETH MARTIN Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BREAUNA CRUMPLER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.05

  • BRENDA McDUFFIE

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • GRACE TATE

    Vice ChairActing Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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
    $399,278
    Expenses
    $289,588
    Contributions
    $399,278
    Grants paid
    $1,750
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $235,048
    Expenses
    $282,611
    Contributions
    $235,048
    Grants paid
    $1,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $189,620
    Expenses
    $148,713
    Contributions
    $189,620
    Grants paid
    $1,500

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021

Tax period
1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
Principal officer
DAWN BERRY-WALKER
Mailing address
136 MERCER AVENUEBUFFALO NY 14214
Website
www.pmljazz.com

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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

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