Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2024. IRS ruling in Feb 2019.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Who runs it and what they're paid
11 people listed on the 990-EZ; $5K paid to officers and key staff.
Kori Coleman’s $5K as Executive Director is at the 4th percentile of top reported officer pay among 2216 $100K–1M arts & culture nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 2 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2024 | FY2022 | FY2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kori Coleman | $5,450 | $1,275 | $4,065 |
| Edna Togba | — | $4,350 | — |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
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Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2Yes
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aNo
Programs and updates
Promotes Black composers' music through education, events, and content.
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Music of Black Composers
Our signature performance series designed to give audiences of all ages an introduction to black composers across time periods and genres in an effort to reverse the severe underrepresentation of black recognition in classical music and the arts.
D-Compressed
A wellness focused music & meditation experience at kenwood community gardens that focused on promoting inclusion and serving the needs of the community. The event highlights the music of black women composers, meditations, sound bowls, and storytelling on healing led by a black women practitioners.
Special Projects/Workshops -1) Cso
Civic fellows - a workshop hosted by the chicago symphony orchestra with d-composed serving as artistic advisors in the development of culturally relevant programming. 2) tucca brazil - our first international appearance, we performance and facilitated a workshop in sao paolo, brazil in collaboration with tucca and afro-latino composers…
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Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
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By the numbers
The FY2024 990-EZ, line by line.
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Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 Latest Viewing | $89K | $137K | 990 PDF | ||
| FY2023 | $111K | $117K | 990 PDF | ||
| FY2022 | $92K | $87K | 990 PDF | ||
| FY2021 | $61K | $38K | 990 PDF |
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Schedules filed Part IV
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2024 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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