2026-08-05T10:17:31-04:00 2026-06-30 990EZ 2025-07-01 814612212 Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival GEOR 7068978941 440 Butternut Creek Road Blairsville GA 30512 Amanda Lawrence director 7068978941 2026-08-06 false 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X X X 114526 X 101600 7710 3736 0 0 1480 1219 261 113307 22263 3593 18626 44482 68825 97327 0 166152 X 94827 163652 2500 2500 97327 166152 97327 166152 Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival Inc. provides meaningful opportunities for an underserved audience to engage with storytelling through hearing stories and attending workshops that will enable them to develop a cultural intelligence through the arts of listening and speaking. The GMSF celebrates diverse traditions of storytelling including those of Appalachia. Held annually in the spring the two-day Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival shares the art of storytelling with culturally and economically diverse audiences by offering storytelling and musical performances events for children and students an open mic an exhibit on traditional quilting and workshops for visitors to learn about the tradition of oral storytelling and become part of its preservation. The festival also includes an annual workshop on storytelling as a form of healing from trauma. The event brings verbal arts to an area with low literacy rates; offers free for students low-income individuals and individuals with disabilities and low-cost for all others educational arts programming in an economically depressed area to people who would have no way to see artists of this caliber otherwise; addresses the growing problem of excessive screen time by providing activities that demonstrate the value of face-to-face rather than digital interaction; shares the traditional arts of storytelling and quilting with younger generations who may be unaware of or detached from these expressions of culture; and brings together different segments of our community and helps them learn about each others cultures through the diverse artists stories presented. Between in-person attendance and online viewing 3000+ people are served annually. Each year we assess the festivals reach in terms of participant demographics learning outcomes and economic effect in the community. 0 45701 45701 Amanda Lawrence director 20 0 0 0 Nathan Baerreis board member 5 0 0 0 Robert Lea board member 5 0 0 0 Keri Keeler board member 5 0 0 0 Tom Wilkerson board member 5 0 0 0 false false false false false false false false false GA Amanda Lawrence 440 Butternut Creek Road Blairsville GA 30512 7068978941 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 31804 35314 30894 34334 51721 184067 2500 5433 4034 5644 4810 22421 22 1858 1262 1629 1480 6251 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 34326 42605 36190 41607 58011 212739 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 433 0 644 0 1077 0 433 0 644 0 1077 211662 13 213 665 1507 3736 6134 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 213 665 1507 3736 6134 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 34339 42818 36855 43114 61747 218873 0.9671 0.978 0.0280 0.015 X Part III - Line 1, Unusual Grant Lists | Name of the Contributor:, Date of Grant:, Year:, Amount:, Description:| Donor, 08 14 2025, "2025", $10000, grant to support the 2025 festival received in the next fiscal year due to administrative delays| Donor, 11 12 2025, "2025", $8000, One-time grant to support the 2026 festival| Donor, 07 24 2025, "2025", $31879, One-time gift| RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Item B - Amended Return The value for Part II line 24 other assets was omitted in the initial filing. That value has been added and is described in Schedule O. Part I, line 16 | Other Expenses:, Amount:| venue rental for 2026 festival, $5380| hotel rooms for storytellers and ASL interpreters, $5577| marketing, $1590| additional festival branded items not included in gross sales of inventory, $2564| event insurance, $400| technology costs website and Zoom fees, $577| annual storage room rental for festival equipment stage quilt stands etc., $1500| U-Haul for transporting festival equipment, $196| office supplies misc., $267| memberships: chambers of commerce and other professional organizations, $575| Part II, line 24 | Asset Name:, BOY Amount:, EOY Amount:| Festival equipment supplies portable stage quilt display stands etc., $2500, $2500|