COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC

EIN 58-6046789 COLUMBUS, GA

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Revenue 2024: $822,850
Expenses 2024: $870,159

Program services were 72.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A69I
Classification: 2000
Street: PO BOX 1499

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

TO PERPETUATE THE ORCHESTRAL TRADITION THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF CREATIVE PROGRAMS PERFORMED AT THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE LEVEL OF ARTISTIC QUALITY, TO DEVELOP AUDIENCE ENTHUSIASM, TO EDUCATE FUTURE GENERATIONS OF CONCERT GOERS AND TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE ENJOYMENT AND EVOLUTION OF THE ART OF SYMPHONIC MUSIC.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (CSO) PRODUCES A VARIETY OF CONCERTS EACH YEAR, INCLUDING CLASSICAL MASTERWORKS, CONTEMPORARY POP FAVORITES, CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SELECTIONS, AND A SERIES OF EDUCATIONAL AND OUTREACH CONCERTS FOR LOCAL CHILDREN AND FAMILIES. IN ADDITION TO ARTISTIC PROGRAMMING, THE CSO REACHES OUT TO LOCAL STUDENTS AND CHILDREN THROUGH IN-SCHOOL AND AFTER-SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH PROGRAMMING.

GENERAL SUPPORT FUND - TO PROVIDE CONCERTS FOR THE COMMUNITY IN ORDER TO PROMOTE APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS.

Expenses $629,845

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.

Kern WadkinsKERN WADKINS

EXEC DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$68,250

From this org

$68,250

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

40
Dr Bonnie EllisDR BONNIE ELLIS

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Mercedeez ByrdMERCEDEEZ BYRD

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

40
Rick HojanRICK HOJAN

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Steve SawyerSTEVE SAWYER

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Muffy Schladensky

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Dr Virginia McCulloughDR VIRGINIA MCCULLOUGH

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Michael MorrillMICHAEL MORRILL

Asst. Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Ron SeayRON SEAY

Vice President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Arreasha LawrenceARREASHA LAWRENCE

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Dr Cynthia WolfDR CYNTHIA WOLF

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Kathleen MullinsKATHLEEN MULLINS

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Desonuia Johnson-WiseDESONUIA JOHNSON-WISE

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Mary Jo PughMARY JO PUGH

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
E Warner Neal JrE WARNER NEAL JR

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

$822,850

Expenses

$870,159

Contributions

$472,049

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$754,383

Expenses

$769,452

Contributions

$625,012

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$1,071,491

Expenses

$766,446

Contributions

$947,652

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$822,850	$870,159	$472,049	$0
2023	$754,383	$769,452	$625,012	$0
2022	$1,071,491	$766,446	$947,652	$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

$882,013

Expenses

$692,450

Assets (EOY)

$3,695,850
2021 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2020 · 990

Revenue

$819,025

Expenses

$574,546

Assets (EOY)

$4,125,395
2020 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2019 · 990

Revenue

$775,587

Expenses

$691,913

Assets (EOY)

$3,416,686
2017 · 990

Revenue

$860,358

Expenses

$827,844

Assets (EOY)

$3,241,239

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2024	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2023	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2022	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2021	990	$882,013	$692,450	$3,695,850
2021	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2020	990	$819,025	$574,546	$4,125,395
2020	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2019	990	$775,587	$691,913	$3,416,686
2017	990	$860,358	$827,844	$3,241,239

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

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

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC

$117,818

2022 MULTIPLE SUPPORT
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC

$78,164

2023 MULTIPLE SUPPORT
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC

$70,321

2024 MULTIPLE SUPPORT
OHIOHEALTH CORPORATION

$54,500

2022 Inspire and build a strong community through music
OHIOHEALTH CORPORATION

$34,598

2023 Program Support
COWETA FALLS STEEPLECHASE INC

$17,000

2023 General support
COWETA FALLS STEEPLECHASE INC

$17,000

2024 General support
COWETA FALLS STEEPLECHASE INC

$12,000

2022 General support
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$11,500

2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$7,500

2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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

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.