2026-05-15T20:37:46-04:00 2025-12-31 990EZ 2025-01-01 871408176 Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History MARI 6142735907 488 CHATHAM RD COLUMBUS OH 43214 Jess Lamar Reece Holler Executive Director 6142735907 2026-05-16 false 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X marionvoices. org X X 51836 X 51586 250 0 0 0 51836 12928 130172 2747 145847 -94011 93285 0 -726 93285 0 93285 0 93285 0 Marion Voices Folklife + Oral History -- Marion Countys countywide folklife cultural arts & heritage organization -- existed to collaborate with our North-Central Ohio community to 1 amplify diverse folklife traditions & cultural arts heritages across Marion County in collaboration with culture-keepers & tradition bearers; 2 build expanded livelihoods for Marion County folk traditional & cultural artists & memory-keepers through arts-based economic development opportunities paid performance teaching presentation & cultural documentation opportunities & arts-&-culture-based job creation; & 3 collaboratively curate folklife & cultural arts programming to build critical reparative pride-in-place in Marion County ... towards more just abundant futures for all. FY2025 marked Marion Voices final operational year as future funding sources were decimated due to the DOGE cancellation of NEA grants to a major multi-year program line plus unrelated changes in state funding. Marion County North-Central Ohio Cultural Heritage Assets Mapping Project CHAMP & Countywide Arts Survey -- Marion Voices CHAMP project was Marion Voices major program service for FY2025. Unfortunately the project was also impacted by the cancellation of a major two-year National Endowment for the Arts Grant due to DOGE cuts in May 2025 and had to be halted after May 2026 with remaining funds from other funding partners returned back. See "grants." Following on FY2024s Marion County Cultural Heritage Mapping Project -- the first half of the project -- FY2025s activities included the planning and partial execution of a planned 12-county folklife outreach and networking tour. Funds were suspended in the midst of fieldwork launch; a 12-county folklife survey was completed but individual county mapping sessions were not completed and remaining funds were returned to the funder the America-250 Ohio Commission via fiscal sponsor the Ohio History Connection and under advisory from administrators Ohio Humanities. Payments were also paid out to some project contractors in FY2025 for work begun in FY2024. NOTE: FY2025 program expenses grants may appear unbalanced due to cross-fiscal year begin & end of project grant disbursement schedule for some major program grants. 9325 91066 Marion Voices in the Schools MVITS Folklife + Cultural Arts Residencies & Associated Folk Arts Educational Outreach. Marion Voices MVITS program continued in its fourth year in FY2025. In FY2025 we completed 23-24 school year programs in two school districts. While direct grants to our partner school supported artists pay Marion Voices again provided funding for curriculum development program coordination artist training & supplies & stipends for a final festival at one school site. In FY2025 MVITS ran residencies with Marion St. Mary School & Grant Middle School & supported 15+ community teaching artists working in the schools: including several first-time teaching artists. NOTE: FY2025 program expenses grants may appear unbalanced due to cross-fiscal year begin & end of project grant disbursement schedule for some major program grants. 0 15327 Marion Black Joy Summerfest 2025 -- a continuation of a beloved annual festival founded in 2021 by a team of Marion Voices community co-curators which has become Marions annual celebration of Black summertime traditions held at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park on Marions West Side on the Saturday following Juneteenth -- returned bigger & better than ever for its fifth season in 2025. MBJSF 2025 opened with a Ohio Historical Marker dedication to the new Shantytown West Side Black History Marker researched & erected by Marion Voices at MLK Park. The ensuing festival featured Victor Floyd as headliner; narrative stages a line-dancing workshop hands-on kids arts workshops a vendor marketplace & a seven-panel exhibit on the making of MLK Parks new Ohio Historical Marker with a month-long promotional lead-up including yard signs flyers banners & postcards. The 5-hour festival drew over 100 people and featured speeches from the mayor the Ohio History Connection County Commissioners & other dignitaries. NOTE: FY2025 program expenses grants may appear unbalanced due to cross-fiscal year begin & end of project grant disbursement schedule for some major program grants. 0 14125 120518 X Jess Lamar Reece Holler Director & Interim Treasurer 60 109498 0 0 Ms Linda Sims President of the Board 15 1415 0 0 Micah Walker Secretary 1 308 0 0 X false true false false true false false false false OH Jess Lamar Reece Holler 488 Chatham Road COLUMBUS OH 43214 6142735907 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE Jess Lamar Reece Holler 488 Chatham Road Columbus OH 43214 Cultural Work: Executive Direction & Grant Projects 109298 0 true X 23400 113840 39650 153225 51586 381701 0 1718 1422 1278 260 4678 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23400 115558 41072 154503 51846 386379 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 386379 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1540 3131 1095 0 5766 23400 117098 44203 155598 51846 392145 X Part III, line 12 | S.No:, Year:, Description:| 1, 2024, Refunds & Reimbursements| 2, 2023, Returns Refunds Adjustments for Purchases from Vendors for Returns| 3, 2022, Refund from Printing Service VistaPrint for Less Than Satisfactory Print Runs; Refunded Shipping from VistaPrint for Combined Orders| RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Cash // Remaining Organizational Assets 2025-12-31 1603 Cash 341597574 Black Heritage Council of Marion Co PO Box 1385 Marion OH 43301 501(c)(3) true true true true false Cash + remaining organizational assets 2025-12-31 1603 Cash 341597574 Black Heritage Council of Marion Co PO Box 1385 Marion OH 43301 501(c)(3) Part I, line 10 | Class of Activity:, Name of the Grantee:, Address of the Grantee:, Aggregate Amount:, Description of Relationship:| Return of unused grant funds: America-250 Ohio Commission, Ohio History Connection, 800 E 17th Avenue, , Columbus, Ohio OH 43211, $9,325.00, None| | Aggregate Amount:| $2000.00| $1578.00| $25.00| Part I, line 16 | Other Expenses:, Amount:| Functional Expenses -- Supplies, $138.00| Functional Expenses -- Tech Subscriptions, $579.00| Functional Expenses -- Reimbursements, $100.00| Functional Expenses -- Miscellaneous, $65.00| Functional Expenses -- Bookkeeping & Tax Filings; Non-Profit Compliance, $222.00| Functional Expenses -- Printing Publications & Postage, $1603.00| Functional Expenses -- Room Space Reservations, $40.00| Part IV, List of Officers | Employee Name:, Description:| Jess Lamar Reece Holler, All Marion Voices pay to contractors is on a contract basis for particular services determined by specific program duties outlined & approved in the budgets of program grants awarded to Marion Voices. Jess Lamar Reece Holler serves as Marion Voices Executive Director as an Independent Contractor with duties expanding & contracting based on our annual budget & program year. FY2025 compensation -- from particular contracted work lines in grants -- included all Marion Voices core administration evaluation communications & marketing & design alongside program-specific duties including curriculum development outreach program facilitation & folklife fieldwork averaging 60 hours week. Board service at Marion Voices is NOT compensated; but per our Worker Self-Directed Non-Profit model -- a powerful model for grassroots self-governance developed by the Sustainable Economies Law Center -- board members can be paid for services as Marion Voices co-curators & team members.| Ms Linda Sims, All Marion Voices pay to contractors is on a contract basis for particular services determined by specific program duties outlined & approved in the budgets of program grants awarded to Marion Voices. Ms. Sims FY2025 pay came from co-curation & facilitation service at Marion Voices Marion Black Joy Summerfest 2025. Board service at Marion Voices is NOT compensated; but per our Worker Self-Directed Non-Profit model -- a powerful model for grassroots self-governance developed by the Sustainable Economies Law Center -- board members can be paid for services as Marion Voices co-curators & team members. NOTE: Term of Service Began Dec. 2024| Micah Walker, All Marion Voices pay to contractors is on a contract basis for particular services determined by specific program duties outlined & approved in the budgets of program grants awarded to Marion Voices. Micah Walkers FY2025 pay -- less than the reportable amount for 1099 filing -- came from co-curation & facilitation service at Marion Voices Marion Black Joy Summerfest 2025. Board service at Marion Voices is NOT compensated; but per our Worker Self-Directed Non-Profit model -- a powerful model for grassroots self-governance developed by the Sustainable Economies Law Center -- board members can be paid for services as Marion Voices co-curators & team members. NOTE: Term of Service Began Dec. 2024| Part V, line 34 | Significant Name:, Description:| The distribution of assets upon dissolution., Marion Voices dissolved in December 2025. Its final assets were distributed by vote of the Board of Directors to the Black Heritage Council of Marion County 34-1597574: a long-standing Black cultural and educational organization that helped incubate Marion Voices and which the Board of Directors felt was a natural successor fit to steward Marion Black Joy Summerfest and other former Marion Voices programs.|