- Revenue 2024
- $559,344
- Expenses 2024
- $579,722
Program services were 71.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A68
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 516 BUNCOMBE ST
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 COLLECT AND PRESERVE HISTORICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, OBJECTS, AND INFORMATION, WHICH ENGAGE AND ENRICH PEOPLE OF ALL AGES THROUGH EXHIBITS, PERFORMANCES, AND EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMS.
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THE MUSEUM STRIVES TO BE THE LEADING CENTER FOR PRESERVING AND CELEBRATING THE MUSICAL NARRATIVES OF THE CAROLINAS AND THE SOUTHEAST, THROUGH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, EXHIBITS, AND PERFORMANCES BY DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS WITH ACCESS TO A WORLD CLASS COLLECTION OF HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT INSTRUMENTS.
Expenses $415,571
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.
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John BeckfordJOHN BECKFORD
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
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Joe BlakeJOE BLAKE
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
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Charles E DavisCHARLES E DAVIS
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
-
John GrierJOHN GRIER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
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Brett HurtBRETT HURT
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
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Margaret JenkinsMARGARET JENKINS
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
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Mary Lou MerktMARY LOU MERKT
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
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Ruby MorganRUBY MORGAN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
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Gustavo NievesGUSTAVO NIEVES
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
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Lliana RoseLLIANA ROSE
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
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Andrew SigalANDREW SIGAL
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
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John StewartJOHN STEWART
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
-
Debra StrangeDEBRA STRANGE
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
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Susan E ThompsonSUSAN E THOMPSON
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
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Craig Allan WalkerCRAIG ALLAN WALKER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
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Marshall WinnMARSHALL WINN
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $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
-
2024
- Revenue
- $559,344
- Expenses
- $579,722
- Contributions
- $335,180
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $967,642
- Expenses
- $556,273
- Contributions
- $604,868
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $221,537
- Expenses
- $455,945
- Contributions
- $312,283
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $506,789
- Expenses
- $463,517
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,937,404
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $243,417
- Expenses
- $361,691
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,902,124
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $243,417
- Expenses
- $357,341
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,902,124
-
2018 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $155,610
- Expenses
- $144,962
- Assets (EOY)
- $34,462
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
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$25,300
2024 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$24,000
2023 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$14,250
2022 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
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SOUTH CAROLINA HUMANITES COUNCIL
$12,879
2022 LECTURE SERIES
-
$6,967
2022 TO PROVIDE GENERAL SUPPORT
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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.