- Revenue 2023
- $283,715
- Expenses 2023
- $267,956
Program services were 66.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 111 S WASHINGTON 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 · 2023
Mission
The Cleveland County Arts Council will ensure that everyone has the opportunity to participate in programs and activities that will enrich cultural life. This is accomplished through visual art exhibits, classes, festivals and other events.
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Summer Art Camp: Classes were back full swing for 2023-24, with over 400 children attending 19 different classes over 7 weeks.
Expenses $124,212 · Revenue $28,596
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Arts in Education: Largest outreach into the community reaching over 10,000 students in Cleveland County Schools with performances for K-8th grade.Student Art Competition was held with over 700 children participating.Scholarships were given to high school seniors.
Expenses $28,448 · Revenue $25,000
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Art of Sound - The mission of the Art of Sound Music Festival is to expose the community to a diverse musical experience by featuring local, regional and national artists who demonstrate a pursuit of excellence in their chosen genre.
Expenses $11,919 · Revenue $20,194
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.
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Shearra Miller
President
- Total calculated
- $58,652
- From this org
- $53,852
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $4,800
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Sara Lynn Little
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Dr Kendalyn Lutz-Craver
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
David Cotton
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Richard Hooker
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Lynn Carter
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Holly Greene
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jeff Knicely
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ruth Huffstetler
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kay Young
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Susan Jones
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
May Reed
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Michael Harden
Past Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Misti Merritt
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Dr Brian Hunnell
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Bill McCarter
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Patrick McMurry
Vice-Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Omar Porter
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LaSundra Williams
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Emily Yelton
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
- $283,715
- Expenses
- $267,956
- Contributions
- $182,348
- Grants paid
- $37,689
-
2022
- Revenue
- $312,895
- Expenses
- $252,176
- Contributions
- $179,251
- Grants paid
- $20,933
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
- $271,822
- Expenses
- $234,587
- Assets (EOY)
- $394,514
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $379,733
- Expenses
- $327,029
- Assets (EOY)
- $378,642
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $191,983
- Expenses
- $253,279
- Assets (EOY)
- $302,860
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $309,925
- Expenses
- $298,872
- Assets (EOY)
- $339,634
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $240,319
- Expenses
- $249,148
- Assets (EOY)
- $327,266
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $245,655
- Expenses
- $251,729
- Assets (EOY)
- $336,078
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $248,467
- Expenses
- $270,747
- Assets (EOY)
- $342,450
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $234,670
- Expenses
- $235,938
- Assets (EOY)
- $364,674
-
2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $235,156
- Expenses
- $224,767
- Assets (EOY)
- $355,843
-
2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $232,131
- Assets (EOY)
- $344,684
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
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Various under 5000
$17,919
2023
-
Various under 5000
$14,933
2022
-
$12,000
2023 To perform 4 plays/ARPA
-
$7,770
2023 Community Art Events/ARPA
-
Kings Mountain Little Theatre
$6,000
2022
Grants received
No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.
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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.