Totals
- Total revenue
- $77,384
- Total expenses
- $148,146
- Contributions and grants received
- $44,402
- Grants paid
- $27,179
- Program service revenue
- $32,190
- Membership dues (line 3)
- not reported
- Investment income (line 4)
- $8
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- $0
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- $907
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- -$123
- Other revenue (line 8)
- not reported
- Total assets, end of year
- $44,073
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $2,816
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $41,257
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $115,810
Program services were 78.2% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2023
Primary exempt purpose
Create an opportunity to play orchestral music in NE Minn
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Mesabi Symphony Orchestra performed ten concerts
Expenses $72,742 · Grants $8,550
-
Mesabi Symphony Orchestra supported school music and theater programs in Virginia MN and Ely MN
Expenses $34,991 · Grants $6,650
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The Minnesota State Old Time Fiddle Competition conducted its annual event
Expenses $8,077 · Grants $5,375
As filed on the 2023 return.
Listed in Part IV
-
James Wachter
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
-
Karen McManus
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $620
- Compensation
- $620
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Hannah Sipola
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $705
- Compensation
- $705
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Benjamin Nilles
Artistic Director & Conductor
- Total calculated
- $14,975
- Compensation
- $14,975
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
-
Sheila Wilcox
Concertmaster
- Total calculated
- $2,205
- Compensation
- $2,205
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
-
Norman Ferris
Board member
- Total calculated
- $205
- Compensation
- $205
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Tracey Gibbens
Board member
- Total calculated
- $725
- Compensation
- $725
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Lynette Pearson
Board member
- Total calculated
- $20
- Compensation
- $20
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jeralyn Spampinato
Board member
- Total calculated
- $765
- Compensation
- $765
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Julie Sandstede
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $20
- Compensation
- $20
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2023
- Filed
- 15 April 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2023v6.0
- Source object
- 202531059349200103
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