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CENTER STAGE STRINGS

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2025 · Form 990EZ · revenue $31K · expenses $23K · assets $132K

EIN
27-3668339
Address
PO BOX 130524, ANN ARBOR, MI 48113-0524
Website
HTTP://CENTERSTAGESTRINGS.NET
NTEE code
A68
Subsection
501(c)(3)
Ruling year
2010
Cross-check
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Mission

TO PROVIDE PERSONAL INSTRUCTION IN THE AREAS OF SOLO AND CHAMBER MUSIC PERFORMANCETO ASPIRING YOUNG MUSICIANS THROUGH A SUMMER CAMP EXPERIENCE AND PUBLIC MUSICFESTIVAL. OUR MUSIC FESTIVAL PROMOTES AND DEVELOPES MUSIC EDUCATION TO THEGENERAL PUBLIC THROUGH CONCERTS OF THE HIGHEST CALIBER FOR RURAL COMMUNITYAUDIENCES TO EXPERIENCE AND ENJOY LIVE MUSIC THAT OTHERWISE IS NOT GENERALLYAVAILABLE IN NON-URBAN AREAS.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

None of the 7 people listed on these returns reported compensation from the organization. They are listed below.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

7 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

NameLatest titleYearsHrs/wk (latest)CompensationOrganizations
Danielle Belen Vaughn PRESIDENT2014-2025 1 $0 reported 1
Rudy Nesmith TREASURER2014-2025 1 $0 reported 1
Robert Lipsett DIRECTOR2014-2025 1 $0 reported 1
William Haxton DIRECTOR2014-2025 1 $0 reported 1
Kathryn Crask DIRECTOR2014-2025 1 $0 reported 1
Dr Kouros Azar DIRECTOR2014-2025 1 $0 reported 1
Denise Nesmith (former) Secretary2014-2015 1 $0 reported 1

People by year

2025 · 6 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
DANIELLE BELEN VAUGHN PRESIDENT1 $0-$0 $01
RUDY NESMITH TREASURER1 $0-$0 $01
ROBERT LIPSETT DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
WILLIAM HAXTON DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
KATHRYN CRASK DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
DR KOUROS AZAR DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
2024 · 6 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
DANIELLE BELEN VAUGHN PRESIDENT1 $0-$0 $01
RUDY NESMITH TREASURER1 $0-$0 $01
ROBERT LIPSETT DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
WILLIAM HAXTON DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
KATHRYN CRASK DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
DR KOUROS AZAR DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
2023 · 6 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
DANIELLE BELEN VAUGHN PRESIDENT1 $0-$0 $01
RUDY NESMITH TREASURER1 $0-$0 $01
ROBERT LIPSETT DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
WILLIAM HAXTON DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
KATHRYN CRASK DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
DR KOUROS AZAR DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
2022 · 6 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
DANIELLE BELEN VAUGHN PRESIDENT1 $0-$0 $01
RUDY NESMITH TREASURER1 $0-$0 $01
ROBERT LIPSETT DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
WILLIAM HAXTON DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
KATHRYN CRASK DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
DR KOUROS AZAR DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
2021 · 6 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
DANIELLE BELEN VAUGHN PRESIDENT1 $0-$0 $01
RUDY NESMITH TREASURER1 $0-$0 $01
ROBERT LIPSETT DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
WILLIAM HAXTON DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
KATHRYN CRASK DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
DR KOUROS AZAR DIRECTOR1 $0-$0 $01
2020 · 6 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
DANIELLE BELEN VAUGHN President1 $0-- $01
RUDY NESMITH Treasurer1 $0-- $01
ROBERT LIPSETT Director1 $0-- $01
WILLIAM HAXTON Director1 $0-- $01
KATHRYN CRASK Director1 $0-- $01
DR KOUROS AZAR Director1 $0-- $01
2019 · 6 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
DANIELLE BELEN VAUGHN President1 $0-- $01
RUDY NESMITH Treasurer1 $0-- $01
ROBERT LIPSETT Director1 $0-- $01
WILLIAM HAXTON Director1 $0-- $01
KATHRYN CRASK Director1 $0-- $01
DR KOUROS AZAR Director1 $0-- $01
2018 · 6 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
DANIELLE BELEN VAUGHN President1 $0-- $01
RUDY NESMITH Treasurer1 $0-- $01
ROBERT LIPSETT Director1 $0-- $01
WILLIAM HAXTON Director1 $0-- $01
KATHRYN CRASK Director1 $0-- $01
DR KOUROS AZAR Director1 $0-- $01
2017 · 6 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
DANIELLE BELEN VAUGHN President1 $0-- $01
RUDY NESMITH Treasurer1 $0-- $01
ROBERT LIPSETT Director1 $0-- $01
WILLIAM HAXTON Director1 $0-- $01
KATHRYN CRASK Director1 $0-- $01
DR KOUROS AZAR Director1 $0-- $01
2016 · 6 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
DANIELLE BELEN VAUGHN President1 $0-- $01
RUDY NESMITH Treasurer1 $0-- $01
ROBERT LIPSETT Director1 $0-- $01
WILLIAM HAXTON Director1 $0-- $01
KATHRYN CRASK Director1 $0-- $01
DR KOUROS AZAR Director1 $0-- $01
2015 · 7 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
DANIELLE BELEN VAUGHN President1 $0-- $01
RUDY NESMITH Treasurer1 $0-- $01
ROBERT LIPSETT Director1 $0-- $01
WILLIAM HAXTON Director1 $0-- $01
KATHRYN CRASK Director1 $0-- $01
DENISE NESMITH Secretary1 $0-- $01
DR KOUROS AZAR Director1 $0-- $01
2014 · 7 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
DANIELLE BELEN VAUGHN President1 $0-- $01
RUDY NESMITH Treasurer1 $0-- $01
ROBERT LIPSETT Director1 $0-- $01
WILLIAM HAXTON Director1 $0-- $01
KATHRYN CRASK Director1 $0-- $01
DENISE NESMITH Secretary1 $0-- $01
DR KOUROS AZAR Director1 $0-- $01

Highest-paid independent contractors

No independent contractors reported.

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

RevenueExpensesAssetsNet assetsContributionsProgram revenueOfficer payEmployeesVolunteers
2025 · Form 990EZ period ending 2025-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$30,857$23,231 $131,898$127,943 $21,470- ---
2024 · Form 990EZ period ending 2024-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$30,936$25,294 $128,746$120,317 $13,925- ---
2023 · Form 990EZ period ending 2023-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$23,721$26,103 $115,246$114,675 $17,925- ---
2022 · Form 990EZ period ending 2022-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$14,195$21,142 $117,751$117,057 $14,185- ---
2021 · Form 990EZ period ending 2021-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$22,486$26,827 $124,562$124,004 $22,450- ---
2020 · Form 990EZ period ending 2020-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$10,770$26,656 $128,988$128,345 $10,700- ---
2019 · Form 990EZ period ending 2019-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$23,604$34,206 $164,823$144,231 $23,490- ---
2018 · Form 990EZ period ending 2018-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$106,603$63,537 $155,539$154,833 $103,830$2,680 ---
2017 · Form 990EZ period ending 2017-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$64,166$52,951 $112,571$111,767 $36,207$27,893 ---
2016 · Form 990EZ period ending 2016-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$41,481$61,239 $101,482$100,552 $37,305$4,106 ---
2015 · Form 990EZ period ending 2015-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$193,690$143,033 $121,122$120,310 $125,805$68,172 ---
2014 · Form 990EZ period ending 2014-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$126,318$113,364 $70,264$69,653 $65,125$60,680 ---

Funders of this organization

1 grantor reported grants to this organization, $14,250 in all, tax years 2021 to 2022. Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

GrantorTypeMatchYears givenGrantsTotalLatest yearLatest year's amountGrants
COLBURN FOUNDATION Private foundation Fuzzy filed as “CENTER STAGE STRINGS” 2021-2022 2$14,250 2022$8,000
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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.

2025 · Form 990EZ · $23,231 spent · pay $0 · grants $529 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $22,084 95.1%
Fees to independent contractors $618 2.7%
Grants and similar amounts paid $529 2.3%
Total$23,231100%

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2024 · Form 990EZ · $25,294 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $24,676 97.6%
Fees to independent contractors $618 2.4%
Total$25,294100%

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2023 · Form 990EZ · $26,103 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $25,503 97.7%
Fees to independent contractors $600 2.3%
Total$26,103100%

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2022 · Form 990EZ · $21,142 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $20,435 96.7%
Fees to independent contractors $502 2.4%
Printing, publications, postage $205 1.0%
Total$21,142100%

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2021 · Form 990EZ · $26,827 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $24,419 91.0%
Fees to independent contractors $1,100 4.1%
Occupancy, rent, utilities, maintenance $1,008 3.8%
Printing, publications, postage $300 1.1%
Total$26,827100%

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2020 · Form 990EZ · $26,656 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $26,038 97.7%
Fees to independent contractors $400 1.5%
Printing, publications, postage $218 0.8%
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2019 · Form 990EZ · $34,206 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
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Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $33,466 97.8%
Fees to independent contractors $415 1.2%
Printing, publications, postage $325 1.0%
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2018 · Form 990EZ · $63,537 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $63,187 99.4%
Fees to independent contractors $350 0.6%
Total$63,537100%

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2017 · Form 990EZ · $52,951 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $51,838 97.9%
Printing, publications, postage $813 1.5%
Fees to independent contractors $300 0.6%
Total$52,951100%

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2016 · Form 990EZ · $61,239 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $59,928 97.9%
Printing, publications, postage $1,011 1.7%
Fees to independent contractors $300 0.5%
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2015 · Form 990EZ · $143,033 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $132,400 92.6%
Occupancy, rent, utilities, maintenance $8,768 6.1%
Printing, publications, postage $1,531 1.1%
Fees to independent contractors $334 0.2%
Total$143,033100%

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2014 · Form 990EZ · $113,364 spent · pay $0 · grants $0 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $111,673 98.5%
Printing, publications, postage $1,416 1.2%
Fees to independent contractors $275 0.2%
Total$113,364100%

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