THE COLBURN SCHOOL

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A6E0

Classification

1000

Street

200 S GRAND 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 · 2023

• SEE SCHEDULE OTHE COLBURN SCHOOL (THE "SCHOOL") IS A CALIFORNIA NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION LOCATED IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. LED BY AN OUTSTANDING FACULTY, THE SCHOOL PROVIDES DEDICATED STUDENTS THE HIGHEST QUALITY PERFORMING ARTS EDUCATION WITH AN EMPHASIS ON PERFORMANCE.THE SCHOOL WAS FOUNDED IN 1950 AS A PREPARATORY PROGRAM FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND FULFILLED THAT FUNCTION UNTIL 1980 WHEN IT BECAME AN INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AND WAS ACCREDITED AS A NON-DEGREE-GRANTING INSTITUTION BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS OF MUSIC (NASM). CURRENTLY, THIS PROGRAM IS KNOWN AS THE COLBURN SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS (CSPA) AND OFFERS PROGRAMS IN MUSIC, DANCE, DRAMA, AND VOICE TO APPROXIMATELY 2,000 STUDENTS OF ALL AGES (TODDLER TO ADULT) AND ABILITIES (NOVICE THROUGH ADVANCED). THE SCHOOL ALSO OPERATES COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS THAT BRING PERFORMING ARTS TO UNDER-SERVED CHILDREN IN INNER-CITY SCHOOLS.THE COLBURN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC (CSCM), ESTABLISHED IN 2003, OFFERS UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS SPECIALIZING IN CLASSICAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE. CSCM PROGRAMS RANGE FROM TWO TO FOUR YEARS OF STUDY AND RESULT IN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: A BACHELOR OF MUSIC DEGREE, A PERFORMANCE DIPLOMA, A MASTER OF MUSIC DEGREE, AN ARTIST'S DIPLOMA, OR A PROFESSIONAL STUDIES CERTIFICATE. ADMISSION TO CSCM IS HIGHLY SELECTIVE, AND CSCM PROVIDES ALL STUDENTS WITH SCHOLARSHIPS THAT COVER FULL TUITION AND ROOM AND BOARD. CSCM ENROLLED 130 AND 133 STUDENTS DURING THE YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2024 AND 2023, RESPECTIVELY. CSCM IS ACCREDITED BY THE NASM AS A DEGREE-GRANTING SCHOOL.THE COLBURN MUSIC ACADEMY (CSMA), ESTABLISHED IN 2010, IS A NON-DEGREE PROGRAM DESIGNED TO PROVIDE A COMPREHENSIVE CURRICULUM OF CLASSES TO HIGHLY GIFTED PRE-COLLEGE STUDENTS FOCUSED ON CAREERS IN MUSIC. CSMA ENROLLED 51 AND 45 STUDENTS DURING THE YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2024 AND 2023, RESPECTIVELY. THE TRUDL ZIPPER DANCE INSTITUTE (TZDI) WAS CREATED IN 2008, CARVING OUT THE YOUTH AND ADULT DANCE CLASSES FROM CSPA. THE DANCE ACADEMY WAS CREATED IN 2014 UNDER TZDI AS A PRE-PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM FOR A SELECT GROUP OF BALLET STUDENTS AGED 14-18. TZDI ENROLLED 250 AND 442 STUDENTS DURING THE YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2024 AND 2023, RESPECTIVELY, IN ITS BALLET, TAP, AND MODERN DANCE PROGRAMS. IN ADDITION, THE DANCE ACADEMY ENROLLED 18 AND 27 STUDENTS DURING THE YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2024 AND 2023, RESPECTIVELY.PERFORMING ARTS AND OTHER ACADEMIC PROGRAMS INCLUDES EXPENSES FOR THE PROVOST OFFICE, LIBRARY, AND THE PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT, WHICH PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT TO THE VARIOUS PROGRAMS OF STUDY AND FURTHER OUR MISSION OF PERFORMING ARTS IN ADDITION TO EDUCATION.

  Expenses $43,795,815 · Grants $11,613,565 · Revenue $18,494,469

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

The first 25 listed. 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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2023

  Revenue

  $130,692,009

  Expenses

  $54,782,423

  Contributions

  $79,720,223

  Grants paid

  $11,613,565

• 2022

  Revenue

  $74,199,241

  Expenses

  $55,597,043

  Contributions

  $31,891,855

  Grants paid

  $11,504,343

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

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $293,942,140

  Expenses

  $51,714,339

  Assets (EOY)

  $624,606,660

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $59,375,662

  Expenses

  $43,302,582

  Assets (EOY)

  $392,445,370

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $44,139,579

  Expenses

  $51,111,667

  Assets (EOY)

  $335,953,493

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $41,915,703

  Expenses

  $51,348,465

  Assets (EOY)

  $350,455,307

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $49,996,053

  Expenses

  $51,791,971

  Assets (EOY)

  $350,839,845

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $36,710,188

  Expenses

  $48,341,369

  Assets (EOY)

  $351,074,138

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

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $1,072,141

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $972,300

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $727,944

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $635,500

  2023 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $605,000

  2024 · ARTS AND CULTURE

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $600,500

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $548,500

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $261,350

  2023 · EDUCATION

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $250,250

  2022 · CULTURE & ARTS

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $195,000

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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.

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