2024-12-31T13:26:59-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 203339412 SKIPP PEARSON FOUNDATION SKIP 8034001879 Post Office Box 835 Columbia SC 29202 Shirley Martin Executive Director 8034001879 2024-12-15 1 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X https://pearsonjazz.org/ X X not-for-profit organization 65000 X 65000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 65000 35000 0 0 15000 10000 5000 0 65000 0 1000 0 1000 X 1000 1000 0 0 0 0 1000 1000 0 0 1000 1000 The Skipp Pearson Foundation/Skipp Pearson Jazz Foundation was created to preserve America's rich jazz music heritage and to foster a greater appreciation of live jazz music performances for generations to discover and enjoy. Seventy-five per cent of our annual income is spent on educational program content. The "global" pandemic of 2020-2023 made it impossible to present in-person programming of any kind. The Foundation was fortunate to be able to create a series of virtual programs that produced unique content and launched the organization into the "digital age". Suspended until 2024. Educational programming in celebration of National Jazz Appreciation Month. Multi-layered public education project that provides a forum for arts organizations from various disciplines to work in partnership. Educational programming done under the project known as International Jazz Day in South Carolina. Note, as the Foundation was unable to fund raise due to a greatly diminished operating budget all efforts were placed on this education program. Even with great hardship and in the face of the current "global" pandemic the Foundation managed to provide a full day of virtual FREE admission programming to all ages. There was a particular focus on elementary school students. 0 0 Closed Le Cafe Jazz the public arts-in-education project created by the Skipp Pearson Jazz Foundation to expand its stated mission iw temporarily without a performance space. Le Cafe Jazz will return Fall 2024.Annually Le Cafe Jazz offers a weekly music program designed to provide public education programs to further the Foundation's mission to foster a greater appreciation of Jazz Music. Le Cafe Jazz is designed to be a listening venue. 0 0 Suspended until 2025. Jazz on the Road was created to act as the Skipp Pearson Jazz Foundation's mobile educational division used to promote and support the Foundation's primary mission; to foster a greater appreciation of live jazz music performances. The Foundation seeks to offer a minimum of twenty-five FREE admission performances per year. Note, COVID-19 and the Federal and State mandated closer throughout 2020 through 2022 made it unsafe to facilitate this program. 0 0 South Carolina's Great Flood of October 2015 left the Skipp Pearson Jazz Foundation's listening venue damaged. Through the offering of the Small Business Administration the Foundation was able to secure a loan to aid in restoration of personal property. Throughout 2016 through 2021 the Foundation continued to repair its damaged facility and return to its regular music education programming on a limited basis. Note, the effect of Tropical Hurricane Florence, Matthew and Maria and four others have prevented the Foundation from accomplishing the recovery goals previously established. COVID-19 has made it necessary to extend the time-line to re-open all projects and program. Projected date is Spring 2025. 0 0 SVOG award allowed the Foundation use the down time to revamp all areas of its technology, retrain staff, retool equipment supplies and take on the digital age of music education. More time is needed. Expected date 9/2026. 0 0 0 Shirley Martin Executive Director, Member of the Executive Committee 40 0 0 0 James Atkinson Member of the Executive Committee 12 0 0 0 Kim James Member of the Executive Committee 5 0 0 0 Roosevelt Cummings Member of the Executive Committee 5 0 0 0 Nancy Greene Director of the Executive Committee 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SC Shirley Martin Post Office Box 835 Columbia SC 29202 8034001879 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 69966 62864 80315 65446 65000 343591 69966 62864 80315 65446 65000 343591 343591 0 343591 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8 The Skipp Pearson Foundation secured no additional revenue. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 Thee Skipp Pearson Foundation has used the funds secured to follow its primary mission, to foster a greater appreciation of American Jazz music while helping to sustain the artists that provide that art. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Third year of COVID19 the Skipp Pearson Foundation secured funding to continue retraining, retooling artists and volunteers. A major effort was made to sustain 60 international and national artists that trained and worked with Ambassador Pearson at the United Nations, UNESCO, International Women in Jazz and NGO under COENES. Each artist was able to receive an annual stipend of five hundred and twenty-five dollars. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 No changes in assets. Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 No changes in assets. For the Skipp Pearson Foundation the extreme loss of life of essential trained volunteers and artists has been enhanced by devastating weather events brought to bear by climate change resulting in numerous issues of flooding. In addition, the Skipp Pearson Foundation, like so many other small not-for-profit organizations, continues to experience an extremely slow recovery from the often-overwhelming negative effect of the COVID-19 "global pandemic". Calendar year 2023 has once again been a very difficult year as the Foundation retrains and retools new. Given all the tasks at hand more time was required. SM