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PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC

EIN 25-0986052 PITTSBURGH, PA

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Revenue 2024
$51,388,751
Expenses 2024
$44,817,759

Program services were 85.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A690
Classification
2000
Street
600 PENN AVENUE

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

IT IS THE MISSION OF THE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TO ENGAGE, ENRICH, AND INSPIRE THROUGH UNPARALLELED LIVE MUSICAL EXPERIENCES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROMOTES A LOVE OF MUSIC BY MAINTAINING A SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. OUR VISION IS GREAT MUSIC IN EVERY LIFE.

  • THE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, WHICH CELEBRATED 125 YEARS OF MUSIC IN 2021, POSSESSES A RICH HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S FINEST CONDUCTORS AND MUSICIANS AND AN UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO THE PITTSBURGH REGION AND ITS CITIZENS. SINCE 2008, THE ORCHESTRA HAS BEEN LED BY MUSIC DIRECTOR MANFRED HONECK, ONE OF THE WORLD'S LEADING CONDUCTORS, ADMIRED FOR HIS REVELATORY INTERPRETATIONS. PAST MUSIC DIRECTORS HAVE INCLUDED LEGENDARY CONDUCTORS SUCH AS ANDRE PREVIN, LORIN MAAZEL AND WILLIAM STEINBERG. SEE CONTINUATION ON SCHEDULE O.THE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY HAS A LONG, ILLUSTRIOUS HISTORY OF BROADCASTS AND RECORDINGS, WHICH INCLUDES TWO GRAMMY AWARDS IN 2018 AND A GRAMMY AWARD IN 2025. WITH A LONG AND DISTINGUISHED HISTORY OF DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN TOURS DATING BACK TO 1900, PSI CONTINUES TO BE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST ORCHESTRAS. FROM ITS HOME AT HEINZ HALL, THE ORCHESTRA TYPICALLY PERFORMS 20 WEEKENDS OF BNY MELLON GRAND CLASSICS, SEVEN WEEKENDS OF PNC POPS, FIVE FIDDLESTICKS FAMILY CONCERTS, SPECIALS WITH ORCHESTRA AND GUEST ARTISTS, AND COUNTLESS EDUCATIONAL, CHILDREN'S, AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS THAT IMPACT MORE THAN 300,000 PEOPLE EACH YEAR.

    Expenses $38,215,101 · Revenue $11,494,914

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Melia Tourangeau

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $532,151
    From this org
    $493,214
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,937
    Hours/week
    40 + 2 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $443,214
    Bonus
    $50,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,600
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,337
    Filer's total
    $532,151
  • Anthony Bucci

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Richard P Simmons

    CHAIR EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Michael Devanney

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jon D Walton

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Debra L Caplan

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • David Cable

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Amy Sebastian

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Michele Atkins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Wendy Barensfeld

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Robin Bernstein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Eric Boughner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ellen Brooks

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ja'Ron Bridges

    DIRECTOR (EXIT 3/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Earl Buford

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Christine Camsuzou

    DIRECTOR (ENTERED 03/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jeffrey Craft

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ann Donahue

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mark Flaherty

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Alexa Forte

    DIRECTOR (EXIT 7/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Anne Gailliot

    DIRECTOR (ENTERED 05/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Marita Garrett

    DIRECTOR (EXIT 1/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Julie Gulick

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Matthew Helfrich

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Thomas B Hotopp

    DIRECTOR (EXIT 3/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

The first 25 listed. 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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $51,388,751
    Expenses
    $44,817,759
    Contributions
    $26,839,389
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $55,173,648
    Expenses
    $42,722,554
    Contributions
    $33,822,912
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $30,841,021
    Expenses
    $39,242,910
    Contributions
    $16,290,005
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $35,674,466
    Expenses
    $33,284,956
    Assets (EOY)
    $168,227,004
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $30,739,984
    Expenses
    $23,600,910
    Assets (EOY)
    $194,466,393
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $44,898,626
    Expenses
    $33,265,787
    Assets (EOY)
    $160,513,295
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $36,545,841
    Expenses
    $36,068,188
    Assets (EOY)
    $153,190,774
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $45,231,709
    Expenses
    $36,790,837
    Assets (EOY)
    $159,581,369

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.