Barns of Rose Hill
A community arts center in Berryville presenting live music, exhibitions, workshops, film screenings and art classes. It publishes a Berryville street address.
Dave Van Deventer of The Woodshedders playing at the Barns of Rose Hill in January 2012, in the photographer's description of his own picture. This shows the organization's work — a concert it put on — and not its building: no photograph of the barns themselves has been found under a license that permits republication.
Photograph by Reed George, January 14, 2012, via Flickr and Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY-SA 2.0. Rights Changes: Scaled from 4592 by 3448 pixels down to 1600 by 1201 and re-encoded as JPEG, with the camera metadata dropped. Nothing cropped, retouched or added. The photograph is monochrome as the photographer made it, not converted here.
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Barns of Rose Hill
A community arts center in Berryville presenting live music, exhibitions, workshops, film screenings, and art classes.
The IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File records the Barns of Rose Hill as a 501(c)(3) organization with EIN 27‑0103521 and a ruling year of 20041. The classification is Arts, Culture and Humanities2. The organization publishes a Berryville street address for its own premises, which sits in Clarke County3, and describes its own work: 'a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community arts center in historic Berryville, Virginia. Throughout the year, we offer a variety of programs for people of all ages, including live music, exhibitions, educational workshops, film screenings, art classes, community programs, and more.'4
The paper trail is dense enough to trace a working nonprofit rather than a small paper one. Returns for the organization are located in the IRS filing index for 13 fiscal years, 2012 through 2024, on Form 9901 — a sustained annual reporting history rather than an intermittent one. A 990 filed every year, for a nonprofit that survived twelve consecutive fiscal years and continues, is a marker of institutional stability that most Clarke County nonprofits in the corpus do not yet have on record.
On 9 September 2026 the Winchester Star reported that the Barns of Rose Hill had completed a decade-long campaign that raised $2 million to establish a permanent endowment1. The endowment is a specific fact with a specific announcement date; what it will support and what the organization intends to do with a permanent revenue base are the natural next questions, held for a later research packet against the Barns' own reporting or a follow-up in the local press.
Six claims across the twenty-two years between the 2004 IRS ruling and the September 2026 endowment announcement. The Barns of Rose Hill is one of the county's clearest cases of a nonprofit whose own filings and own website carry most of the record; a Winchester Star obituary of any founding board member, or an anniversary feature in the Clarke Courier, would fill much of what is missing about how the arts center came to be.
Evidence
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Barns of Rose Hill is listed in the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File under EIN 27-0103521 as a 501(c)(3) organization, with a ruling year of 2004 recorded in the file.
What the source supports
The organization's legal name, EIN and subsection as the IRS records them, and the ruling year the extract carries.
Uncertainty
The IRS recognized this organization's tax-exempt status in 2004. That is the year of the determination as carried in this extract, and it is not necessarily the founding year: an organization can be recognized long after it began, and nothing here establishes when it was founded. Listing is not evidence that the organization is operating now, and this record establishes nothing about its conduct or its finances.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Virginia extract (eo_va.csv), file as of 2026-09-07
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-07 (last update)
Locator: Row for EIN 270103521
Relevant passageEIN 270103521 | BARNS OF ROSE HILL | subsection 03 | NTEE A20 | ruling year 2004 | filing requirement 01 | latest tax period 202512 | locality Berryville, VA 22611
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs_exempt_organizations_data. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
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The IRS classifies Barns of Rose Hill under Arts, Culture and Humanities.
What the source supports
The mission category the IRS assigns this organization. The category is the IRS's own classification code for the organization, not the organization's description of what it does.
Uncertainty
A broad category is not a description of programs.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Virginia extract (eo_va.csv), file as of 2026-09-07
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-07 (last update)
Locator: Row for EIN 270103521
Relevant passageEIN 270103521 | BARNS OF ROSE HILL | subsection 03 | NTEE A20 | ruling year 2004 | filing requirement 01 | latest tax period 202512 | locality Berryville, VA 22611
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs_exempt_organizations_data. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
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Barns of Rose Hill publishes a street address for its own premises that falls in Clarke County, Virginia.
What the source supports
That the organization states a street address for its own premises, and that this project placed that address in Clarke County, Virginia (FIPS 51043).
Uncertainty
The address is the organization's own statement; no deed, lease or county record was inspected. Placing it in Clarke County is this project's determination, from a US Census Bureau geocoder address match confirmed by an FCC Area API county lookup of the coordinates that geocoder returned. That second step checks the county for those coordinates; it is not an independent geocode of the address, so it cannot catch an address the Census geocoder placed at the wrong point. The street address itself is not published here, and where the organization's work reaches was not measured.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Barns of Rose Hill, organization website
Barns of Rose Hill
Locator: The page's stated street address for the organization's own premises
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
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Barns of Rose Hill describes its work as: Barns of Rose Hill is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community arts center in historic Berryville, Virginia. Throughout the year, we offer a variety of programs for people of all ages, including live music, exhibitions, educational workshops, film screenings, art classes, community programs, and more.
What the source supports
What the organization says it does, quoted from its own site on 2026-09-11.
Uncertainty
Self-published and unverified. This is the organization's account of its own work; nothing here checks it against a program record, a filing or an independent report.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Barns of Rose Hill, organization website
Barns of Rose Hill
Locator: Home page, the paragraph under the heading beginning "We enrich lives through the arts"
Relevant passageBarns of Rose Hill is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community arts center in historic Berryville, Virginia. Throughout the year, we offer a variety of programs for people of all ages, including live music, exhibitions, educational workshops, film screenings, art classes, community programs, and more.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
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Returns for Barns of Rose Hill are located in the filing index for 13 fiscal years, 2012 through 2024, on Form 990.
What the source supports
Which fiscal years of return the index returns for this EIN, and on which forms. The segment lists each year with its form, fiscal period and return identifier, so the coverage can be checked record by record.
Uncertainty
Returns are listed for 13 fiscal years, 2012 through 2024, on Form 990. A listed return is one that can be located in the filing index, not one that has been read: no document was retrieved, no amount from any return is reported in this note, and a directory entry is not an audit. Years missing from that count are years these sources did not return, which is not evidence that nothing was filed; no source used here reports a prior-year 990-N.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API v2 filing index, with IRS Form 990-N (e-Postcard) bulk data
ProPublica; Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-10 (last update)
Locator: Index records for EIN 270103521, fiscal years 2012-2026: 13 located, 2012 through 2024, on 990. Per-year detail, with the return identifier for each, is in research/transparentclarke-inventory/filing-coverage.jsonl
Checked: Catalog index only. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs_filing_index_via_aggregator. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
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On 9 September 2026 the Winchester Star reported that Barns of Rose Hill had completed a decade-long campaign that raised $2 million to establish a permanent endowment.
What the source supports
That the campaign is reported complete, and that the $2 million was raised to establish a permanent endowment — not pledged, not an unmet goal, and not a balance confirmed by any financial statement.
Uncertainty
This endowment is not operating money. It is a permanent fund; the organization's own page says it invests for income and long-term growth and spends a portion of earnings each year on programs. Its executive director is quoted saying that annual gifts, memberships, sponsorships, grants and ticket revenue remain essential for the Barns to keep presenting programs and caring for its building. Nothing here states the fund's balance, its spending rate or its terms, and no return or financial statement was inspected.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Barns of Rose Hill completes $2M endowment campaign after 10 years
Star staff report, The Winchester Star · 2026-09-09 (publication)
Locator: Online edition, printed page not recorded; lede paragraph
Relevant passageBarns of Rose Hill has completed a decade-long, $2 million campaign to establish a permanent endowment.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: local_newspaper_reporting. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Barns of Rose Hill completes $2M endowment campaign after 10 years
Star staff report, The Winchester Star · 2026-09-09 (publication)
Locator: Online edition, printed page not recorded; paragraph beginning "Despite the successful campaign"
Relevant passageDespite the successful campaign, she said, annual financial gifts, memberships, sponsorships, grants and ticket revenue will remain essential for the Barns to continue presenting programs, caring for its historic facility and sustaining its day-to-day work and staff.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: local_newspaper_reporting. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Endowment Giving
Barns of Rose Hill
Locator: Under the heading "How the Endowment Functions"
Relevant passageInvests wisely to generate income for annual use and long-term growth. Spends a portion of earnings each year to advance the mission through programs.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
What the sources support
Barns of Rose Hill describes its work as: Barns of Rose Hill is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community arts center in historic Berryville, Virginia. Throughout the year, we offer a variety of programs for people of all ages, including live music, exhibitions, educational workshops, film screenings, art classes, community programs, and more.
See the source and its limits
Barns of Rose Hill describes its work as: Barns of Rose Hill is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community arts center in historic Berryville, Virginia. Throughout the year, we offer a variety of programs for people of all ages, including live music, exhibitions, educational workshops, film screenings, art classes, community programs, and more.
What the source supports
What the organization says it does, quoted from its own site on 2026-09-11.
Uncertainty
Self-published and unverified. This is the organization's account of its own work; nothing here checks it against a program record, a filing or an independent report.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Barns of Rose Hill, organization website
Barns of Rose Hill
Locator: Home page, the paragraph under the heading beginning "We enrich lives through the arts"
Relevant passageBarns of Rose Hill is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community arts center in historic Berryville, Virginia. Throughout the year, we offer a variety of programs for people of all ages, including live music, exhibitions, educational workshops, film screenings, art classes, community programs, and more.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Barns of Rose Hill publishes a street address for its own premises that falls in Clarke County, Virginia.
See the source and its limits
Barns of Rose Hill publishes a street address for its own premises that falls in Clarke County, Virginia.
What the source supports
That the organization states a street address for its own premises, and that this project placed that address in Clarke County, Virginia (FIPS 51043).
Uncertainty
The address is the organization's own statement; no deed, lease or county record was inspected. Placing it in Clarke County is this project's determination, from a US Census Bureau geocoder address match confirmed by an FCC Area API county lookup of the coordinates that geocoder returned. That second step checks the county for those coordinates; it is not an independent geocode of the address, so it cannot catch an address the Census geocoder placed at the wrong point. The street address itself is not published here, and where the organization's work reaches was not measured.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Barns of Rose Hill, organization website
Barns of Rose Hill
Locator: The page's stated street address for the organization's own premises
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Barns of Rose Hill is listed in the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File under EIN 27-0103521 as a 501(c)(3) organization, with a ruling year of 2004 recorded in the file.
See the source and its limits
Barns of Rose Hill is listed in the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File under EIN 27-0103521 as a 501(c)(3) organization, with a ruling year of 2004 recorded in the file.
What the source supports
The organization's legal name, EIN and subsection as the IRS records them, and the ruling year the extract carries.
Uncertainty
The IRS recognized this organization's tax-exempt status in 2004. That is the year of the determination as carried in this extract, and it is not necessarily the founding year: an organization can be recognized long after it began, and nothing here establishes when it was founded. Listing is not evidence that the organization is operating now, and this record establishes nothing about its conduct or its finances.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Virginia extract (eo_va.csv), file as of 2026-09-07
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-07 (last update)
Locator: Row for EIN 270103521
Relevant passageEIN 270103521 | BARNS OF ROSE HILL | subsection 03 | NTEE A20 | ruling year 2004 | filing requirement 01 | latest tax period 202512 | locality Berryville, VA 22611
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs_exempt_organizations_data. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
The IRS classifies Barns of Rose Hill under Arts, Culture and Humanities.
See the source and its limits
The IRS classifies Barns of Rose Hill under Arts, Culture and Humanities.
What the source supports
The mission category the IRS assigns this organization. The category is the IRS's own classification code for the organization, not the organization's description of what it does.
Uncertainty
A broad category is not a description of programs.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Virginia extract (eo_va.csv), file as of 2026-09-07
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-07 (last update)
Locator: Row for EIN 270103521
Relevant passageEIN 270103521 | BARNS OF ROSE HILL | subsection 03 | NTEE A20 | ruling year 2004 | filing requirement 01 | latest tax period 202512 | locality Berryville, VA 22611
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs_exempt_organizations_data. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Returns for Barns of Rose Hill are located in the filing index for 13 fiscal years, 2012 through 2024, on Form 990.
See the source and its limits
Returns for Barns of Rose Hill are located in the filing index for 13 fiscal years, 2012 through 2024, on Form 990.
What the source supports
Which fiscal years of return the index returns for this EIN, and on which forms. The segment lists each year with its form, fiscal period and return identifier, so the coverage can be checked record by record.
Uncertainty
Returns are listed for 13 fiscal years, 2012 through 2024, on Form 990. A listed return is one that can be located in the filing index, not one that has been read: no document was retrieved, no amount from any return is reported in this note, and a directory entry is not an audit. Years missing from that count are years these sources did not return, which is not evidence that nothing was filed; no source used here reports a prior-year 990-N.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API v2 filing index, with IRS Form 990-N (e-Postcard) bulk data
ProPublica; Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-10 (last update)
Locator: Index records for EIN 270103521, fiscal years 2012-2026: 13 located, 2012 through 2024, on 990. Per-year detail, with the return identifier for each, is in research/transparentclarke-inventory/filing-coverage.jsonl
Checked: Catalog index only. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs_filing_index_via_aggregator. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
On 9 September 2026 the Winchester Star reported that Barns of Rose Hill had completed a decade-long campaign that raised $2 million to establish a permanent endowment.
See the source and its limits
On 9 September 2026 the Winchester Star reported that Barns of Rose Hill had completed a decade-long campaign that raised $2 million to establish a permanent endowment.
What the source supports
That the campaign is reported complete, and that the $2 million was raised to establish a permanent endowment — not pledged, not an unmet goal, and not a balance confirmed by any financial statement.
Uncertainty
This endowment is not operating money. It is a permanent fund; the organization's own page says it invests for income and long-term growth and spends a portion of earnings each year on programs. Its executive director is quoted saying that annual gifts, memberships, sponsorships, grants and ticket revenue remain essential for the Barns to keep presenting programs and caring for its building. Nothing here states the fund's balance, its spending rate or its terms, and no return or financial statement was inspected.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Barns of Rose Hill completes $2M endowment campaign after 10 years
Star staff report, The Winchester Star · 2026-09-09 (publication)
Locator: Online edition, printed page not recorded; lede paragraph
Relevant passageBarns of Rose Hill has completed a decade-long, $2 million campaign to establish a permanent endowment.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: local_newspaper_reporting. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Barns of Rose Hill completes $2M endowment campaign after 10 years
Star staff report, The Winchester Star · 2026-09-09 (publication)
Locator: Online edition, printed page not recorded; paragraph beginning "Despite the successful campaign"
Relevant passageDespite the successful campaign, she said, annual financial gifts, memberships, sponsorships, grants and ticket revenue will remain essential for the Barns to continue presenting programs, caring for its historic facility and sustaining its day-to-day work and staff.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: local_newspaper_reporting. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Endowment Giving
Barns of Rose Hill
Locator: Under the heading "How the Endowment Functions"
Relevant passageInvests wisely to generate income for annual use and long-term growth. Spends a portion of earnings each year to advance the mission through programs.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
See a related record at the Clarke County Historical Association
Also indexed as: BARNS OF ROSE HILL; Barns Of Rose Hill.
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