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AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC

EIN 13-1969375 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$3,077,153
Expenses 2024
$3,024,666

Program services were 90.0% 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
1330 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS FL 2

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

THE MISSION OF THE ASO IS TO RENEW LIVE ORCHESTRA MUSIC AS A VITAL FORCE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN CULTURE. TO THIS END, THE ASO PRESENTS THEMATIC PROGRAMMING, IN WHICH MUSICAL WORKS ARE CURATED AROUND IDEAS DRAWN FROM A VARIETY OF DISCIPLINES SUCH AS HISTORY, VISUAL ARTS, SCIENCE, POLITICS, AND LITERATURE. ASO PURSUES INNOVATION IN CONCERT PRESENTATION AND IS DEVOTED TO THE PROMOTION OF MUSICAL EDUCATION. IN ITS EFFORTS TO INCREASE THE CONSTITUENCY FOR ORCHESTRAL MUSIC BY MAKING IT ONCE AGAIN A RELEVANT AND ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE FOR A MODERN, DIVERSE SOCIETY, THE ASO CONSIDERS ITSELF AN ORGANIZATION IN THE PUBLIC'S SERVICE, AND A MODEL FOR THE SURVIVAL AND GROWTH OF ORCHESTRAS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PRESENT AFFORDABLE SYMPHONY CONCERTS.

  • SELF PRESENTED - A SERIES OF CONCERTS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC BY PURCHASE OF INDIVIDUAL SEASON TICKETS.

    Expenses $1,386,508 · Revenue $46,806

  • SERVICE CONTRACTS - CONCERTS PERFORMED BY THE SYMPHONY AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS FOR VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS FOR A FEE AT ESTIMATED COST.

    Expenses $1,336,376 · Revenue $1,555,312

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.

  • Dimitri B Papadimitriou

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Hans-Jurgen Knoch

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nermin K Ahmad

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Helen Baron

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Miriam R Berger

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leon Botstein

    TRUSTEE/MUSIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $135,000
    From this org
    $135,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Jon R Carter

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Dorf

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jack Kliger

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shirley A Mueller Esq

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eileen Rhulen

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lawrence Apolzon

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Oliver Inteeworn

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $164,249
    From this org
    $12,000
    From related orgs
    $120,331
    Other
    $31,918
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $12,000 + $120,331 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $13,296 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $18,622 related
    Filer's total
    $12,000 + $152,249 related

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
    $3,077,153
    Expenses
    $3,024,666
    Contributions
    $1,470,281
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,653,598
    Expenses
    $2,646,878
    Contributions
    $1,427,611
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,861,012
    Expenses
    $2,757,296
    Contributions
    $1,305,061
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,647,978
    Expenses
    $2,604,155
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,198,818

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,020,123
    Expenses
    $923,791
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,385,547

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,717,087
    Expenses
    $2,804,357
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,161,187

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,313,047
    Expenses
    $2,303,595
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,211,849

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,534,063
    Expenses
    $2,540,173
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,185,251

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,238,655
    Expenses
    $3,301,829
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,277,632

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,159,068
    Expenses
    $3,202,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,249,706

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,917,433
    Expenses
    $4,825,448
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,301,538

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,630,597
    Expenses
    $5,115,042
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,364,795

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $5,599,354
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,226,425

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

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.