Skip to content
Nonprofiteer
← All organizations

CLEVELAND COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC

EIN 58-1708808 SHELBY, NC

Browse the largest nonprofits in North Carolina

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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

Where these grants went next →

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.