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SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY FOUNDATION

EIN 14-1858753 SAN DIEGO, CA

Revenue 2024
$6,818,136
Expenses 2024
$6,753,520

Program services were 87.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A69
Classification
2000
Street
1245 7TH AVE

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).

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.

  • MARTHA A GILMER

    DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $604,744
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $534,119
    Other
    $70,625
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $534,119 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $53,500 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $17,125 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $604,744 related

  • WARREN O KESSLER MD

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 0.4 related

  • DAVID SNYDER

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 8 related

  • SANDRA LEVINSON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • MITCHELL R WOODBURY

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 0.4 related

  • EUNICE BRAGIAS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • ROBERT CAPLAN ESQ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • HAL FUSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2 + 0.4 related

  • SUSAN MALLORY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • JEREMY PEARL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • MARK STUART

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

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 — 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
    $6,818,136
    Expenses
    $6,753,520
    Contributions
    $1,330,000
    Grants paid
    $5,919,800
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,443,962
    Expenses
    $6,649,366
    Contributions
    $1,270,000
    Grants paid
    $5,931,400
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,337,118
    Expenses
    $6,548,928
    Contributions
    $980,000
    Grants paid
    $5,803,400

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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • THEATER DIRECT INC.

    $131,570 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $83,565 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 10 September 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.

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.