SUNSET PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC

Financials

From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.

Officers, directors and key employees

As listed on the 990-EZ for the year ended June 30, 2025, highest compensation first.

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)

4520 4TH AVE STE MH9, BROOKLYN, NY 11220-1180

In care of

% G VOORHEES

Signed the 990-EZ

Thomas Piercy, Executive Director

Phone

(917) 825-3478

Website

http://www.sunsetparkschoolofmusic.org/

Mission

Teaching of musical instruments, and providing access to music events/education to the community. Free public concerts in the Brooklyn community and throughout NYC.

Program accomplishments

• Free Theory/Performance/Musicianship Classes. Serving 300 students/year. Free Music Theory, Performance and Musicianship/Performance Classes. The School offers free music theory and musicianship classes to students enrolled in private lessons. The classes are held at the school. The Music Theory, Performance and Musicianship/Performance Classes are free to those students enrolled in private lessons. The classes, with 5-15 students in each class, are held weekly throughout the 32-week school year. The classes are 1/2 hour to 1-hour in length. We have three levels: beginner, intermediate/advanced, and adult. The students range in age from 2nd grade to adult.
  Expenses $26,000
• Free Community concert Series. Serving 3,000 people each year. The school invites a diverse group of professional musicians and the ensembles in residence to perform once-a-month free concerts. We select the artists based previous experience hearing and seeing the artists, professional relationships and collaborations, and recommendations from the faculty, students/parents, and community organizations. Some of the award-winning artists that have performed include Thomas Piercy (www.thomaspiercy.com); Judith Olson; Noritaka Ito; the Milonga Trio; Vilian Ivantchev; Intrepid Quintet; Lost Dog Ensemble; Pablo Aslan (Latin Grammy Nominee); Fernando Otero (Latin Grammy Winner); Yohmei Blasdel (world-renowned shakuhachi player); Yihan Chen (award-winning Chinese composer/pianist). These concerts are held at the music school and the Community Center of the MarienHeim Center in Sunset Park. Students, families, and the general public are invited to the concerts. We notify local schools, local churches, and local community organizations in the hope that they will let their communities know about and attend the concerts. The concerts range in style from classical, jazz and different ethnic styles that represent the native countries of our largely recent- immigrant community. We believe it to be greatly important for the community to see what we do as musicians in bringing many different styles of music to the community. The concerts are held once a month throughout the school year. They generally last for one hour. The Sunset Park area is a low-income area with many recent immigrants from Central America and China. Many of the people in the community would not otherwise be able to afford to go to professional music events.
  Expenses $10,000
• Free Summer Music Program. Serving 40 people directly. 300 indirectly. A free summer program for children in grades 3 to 7. Any children in the neighborhood were welcome to attend. No previous enrollment as a student in the school was required. We offered an Open-Door policy so students may come and go depending on their schedule and their parents' summer schedule. Student attendance varied from 10-40 students per day. The classes were held at the music school and in the community center and gym of Sunset Park's Marien-Heim Center. The classes were held for four hours (9am-1pm), five days a week (MondayFriday), for five weeks in the summer. Instruction was provided on music instruments as well as music-related activities. Students were introduced to instrumental music through demonstration of woodwinds, strings, piano, and guitar. The demonstrations were done by professional performers/teachers and often included hands-on aspect so the students were able to hold and sometimes play the instruments. Teachers included the Executive Director, current faculty of the school and teaching artists/performers from NYC. Each student was given a recorder to learn and play. Many of these students continued to private instruction on an instrument of their choice in the fall. There were performances by students, faculty and guest artists. The performances by faculty and guest artists often included participation from the students. We try to not a have "wall" between the students and faculty/guest artists. Hopeful Impact: Many of the students in the Sunset Park community are unable to afford to go to a summer program with the usual high fees. Our program allowed students in Sunset Park to have musical activities during their summer break.
  Expenses $4,000
• Music Technology Classes. Served 30 people directly. Served 500 people indirectly. Students were offered classes in computer music technology software and its application and real-life usage. Students were of high-school-age and came from the surrounding Sunset Park area. The main software used is Finale. Other composing/arranging software used is Sibelius. These are the two main music composing software in use today. Until March 15, 2020, the lessons/classes were held for one hour, once a week for 32 weeks at the school. After March 20, 2020, we transitioned to online classes/lessons. This may have been the easiest class to transition to online. Students/teachers were able to share their information easily through emails and google drive. It was easy for the teachers and students to demonstrate their compositions/arrangements through shared audio files. Students had access to the professional Finale/Sibelius software while using the school's computer, and had access to a free version at home on their own computers. The lessons were taught primarily by Executive Director Thomas Piercy. Mr. Piercy is a published composer and has helped edit works published by Boosey & Hawkes and Carl Fischer, Inc. Guest teachers from the professional composing, arranging, and recording field were brought in (in person or online) to demonstrate further usage of software such as Finale, Sibelius, and ProTools. Students were encouraged to compose their own pieces as well as arrange and orchestrate others' works. Students were taught the details of music copying and layout for professional use. These skills are highly useful to them as musicians in the fields of performance, composing, copyist, editing and publishing. Students, faculty, and ensembles-in-residence performed some of these works throughout the year at school concerts and in-person and online events. Guests artists and faculty performed originally composed trios for clarinet, tape and piano; ryuteki and shakuhachi (Japanese flute), clarinet and piano; duos for clarinet and piano; two guitars; voice and piano; solos for piano, clarinet and guitar, and mandolin quintets. Student ensembles performed arrangements of music by such varied composers as Piazzolla, Mozart, Bach, and Gershwin. Examples of the students' work can be found at this webpage on the school's website: Music Software and Technology Class www.sunsetparkschoolofmusic.org/software-and-technology-class
  Expenses $5,200
• Instrument making workshops. Served 50 directly. Served 500 people indirectly. Instrument Making workshop. Professional instrument makers and players of the Japanese shakuhachi, hichiriki, and the Chinese/Japanese flute (ryuteki/fue/guanzi) instruments worked with the students to make their own instruments. The workshops were held twice each semester and once during the summer session. The workshops were held on Saturdays and were scheduled for four hours to cover a short performance and demonstration by the instrument maker, instruction on how to make the instruments, the actual making of the instruments using tools and bamboo provided by the school, and the teaching how to play the instruments once made. The instrument makers/players included the Executive Director, who has studied instrument making in Japan, and other artists that have studied instrument making in China, Korea, and Japan. The instruments included the Japanese shakuhachi (flute), Japanese hichiriki (double reed instrument), Chinese double reed instrument (guanzi) and Chinese/Japanese flute. These workshops were held throughout the school year at the Sunset Park School of Music. We were able to complete the workshops before the school transitioned to online on March 15, 2020. Each workshop lasted approximately four hours. The students not only made their own instruments but also learned how to play them in the workshop. These instruments are used throughout Asian countries in formal, informal and folk music settings. Many of our students are recent immigrants of Asian countries and we think this is a great opportunity for them, and other non-Asian students, to learn about their indigenous music instruments. A highlight of the participants of these workshops in previous years was attending the Annual Concert of Japanese Heritage Music, a free concert sponsored by Columbia University's IMJS: Japanese Cultural Heritage Initiatives. This concert was cancelled due to the coronavirus, so unfortunately the students were not able to attend this year. We were able to set up and invite the students to an online concert of traditional music broadcast from Japan. This concert allowed the students to see and hear the instruments and meet (online) some of the leading practitioners of traditional instruments. Sunset Park School of Music Executive Director Thomas Piercy was a featured hichiriki performer at the online concert. There are several traditional instrumental Japanese and Chinese ensembles for amateurs in NYC. People from our workshops will be able to join these ensembles to further their interest in the instruments. Private instruction is also available to those students interested in taking lessons.

What it must file and when

IRS records say it files Form 990-N (e-Postcard). Gross receipts normally $50,000 or less. Its accounting year ends in June, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.

IRS record

EIN

11-2684169

Tax-exempt status

501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization

Foundation status

School

Donations deductible (Pub 78)

Public charity, 50% deduction limit

Exempt since

1985

Accounting year ends

June

Files

Form 990-N (e-Postcard)

Category (NTEE)

Arts, culture and humanities (A6EZ)

Assets (IRS master file)

$26,615

Income (IRS master file)

$47,500

Filing history

990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 11-2684169).

Questions about SUNSET PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC

What is the EIN of SUNSET PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC?

The employer identification number (EIN) of SUNSET PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC is 11-2684169.

Is SUNSET PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC tax-exempt?

Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1985.

Are donations to SUNSET PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC tax-deductible?

Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).

Which annual return does SUNSET PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC file?

Form 990-N (e-Postcard). Gross receipts normally $50,000 or less.

When is the next return of SUNSET PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC due?

The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending June 30, 2026) is due November 16, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.

When did SUNSET PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC last file with the IRS?

The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990-EZ for the year ended June 2025.

Who are the officers and directors of SUNSET PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC?

The 990-EZ for the year ended June 30, 2025 lists 2 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $18,000 (Thomas Piercy, Executive Director).

How much revenue does SUNSET PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC have?

On its 990-EZ for the year ended June 30, 2025 it reported revenue of $47,500, expenses of $45,200 and total assets of $26,615 at year end.

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