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SYRACUSE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION INC

EIN 22-2172591 SYRACUSE, NY

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Revenue 2024
$327,538
Expenses 2024
$565,724

Program services were 90.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A11
Classification
1000
Street
449 S SALINA STREET

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

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Activities or mission (Part I)

THE FOUNDATION INVESTS AND MANAGES FUNDS AND ASSETS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUPPORTING THE PRESENTATION OF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MUSIC IN THE CENTRAL NEW YORK REGION, INITIALLY THE SUPPORT OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE SYRACUSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. AS A FULL-TIME PROFESSIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. THE FOUNDATION CURRENTLY ONLY SUPPORTS MUSICAL ASSOCIATES OF CENTRAL NEW YORK, INC.

  • GRANTS TO OTHER NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS TO SUPPORT SYMPHONY MUSIC IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.

    Expenses $512,784 · Grants $512,784

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • David A A Ridings

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alice Kendrick

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elsa Soderberg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stephen Chase

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gary Grossman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bill Byrne

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Drescher

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, 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. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $327,538
    Expenses
    $565,724
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $512,784
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $291,467
    Expenses
    $538,178
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $489,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $264,420
    Expenses
    $487,291
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,429,668

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $207,292
    Expenses
    $567,199
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,262,249

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $228,244
    Expenses
    $462,011
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,383,457

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $231,358
    Expenses
    $663,742
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,973,916

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $317,359
    Expenses
    $418,538
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,495,870

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $338,115
    Expenses
    $691,153
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,632,621

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $345,836
    Expenses
    $324,580
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,411,013

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $366,013
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,135,374

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.