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SOUTH FLORIDA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC

EIN 65-0846695 FORT LAUDERDALE, FL

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Revenue 2024
$2,715,488
Expenses 2024
$4,101,739

Program services were 73.5% 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
441 NE 5TH 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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE ORCHESTRA IS DEDICATED TO BRINGING ORCHESTRAL MUSIC OF THE HIGHEST CALIBER TO SOUTH FLORIDA. ITS MISSION IS TO DELIGHT, INSPIRE AND EDUCATE THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE THROUGH MUSIC.

Activities or mission (Part I)

REMAINING TRUE TO ITS MISSION TO DELIGHT, INSPIRE, AND EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY, THE SOUTH FLORIDA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (SFSO) PERFORMED MORE THAN 40 IN-PERSON CONCERTS AND EVENTS FOR PATRONS THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH FLORIDA REGION, INCLUDING MONROE, MIAMI-DADE, AND BROWARD COUNTIES, SERVING APPROXIMATELY 24,500 MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY. THE MASTERWORKS CONCERT SERIES FEATURED WORLD-RENOWNED SOLOISTS, INCLUDING BENJAMIN HOCHMAN, PIANO, AMY SHOREMOUNT-OBRA, SOPRANO, AND CATHERINE LAN, PIANO, AMONG OTHERS. AMONG THE ARTISTIC HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SEASON WERE A STAGED CONCERT VERSION OF BERNSTEIN'S CANDIDE AND MOZART'S REQUIEM, PERFORMED WITH THE SOUTH FLORIDA SYMPHONY CHORUS. IN ADDITION, THE TRANSFORMATIVE MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAM, SYMPHONY IN THE SCHOOLS, EXPOSED MORE THAN 5,000 STUDENTS FROM UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES TO THE MAGIC OF LIVE CLASSICAL MUSIC. THROUGH THE ORGANIZATION'S PARTNERSHIP WITH JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT, AN ADDITIONAL 19,000 BROWARD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL 5TH GRADERS ENGAGED WITH THE PERFO

  • DURING FY25, THE SOUTH FLORIDA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTED A SERIES OF FIVE MASTERWORKS CONCERTS THROUGH 13 PERFORMANCES, PLUS A LARGE-SCALE HOLIDAY CONCERT PERFORMED TWICE; ALL CONCERTS FEATURED WORLD-CLASS SOLOISTS AND MUSICIANS AND WERE ATTENDED BY MORE THAN 24,500 PATRONS AND STUDENTS IN BROWARD, MIAMI-DADE, AND MONROE COUNTIES. ARTISTIC HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SEASON INCLUDED A STAGED CONCERT VERSION OF BERNSTEIN'S CANDIDE, PERFORMED ACROSS THREE VENUES WITH FULL CHORUS AND CAST, AND MOZART'S REQUIEM, PERFORMED WITH THE SOUTH FLORIDA SYMPHONY CHORUS. THE SEASON FEATURED ACCLAIMED SOLOISTS INCLUDING BENJAMIN HOCHMAN, PIANO; AMY SHOREMOUNT-OBRA, SOPRANO; AND CATHERINE LAN, PIANO, AMONG OTHERS. THE SYMPHONY IN THE SCHOOLS PROGRAM ENGAGED MORE THAN 5,000 STUDENTS FROM UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES THROUGH LIVE ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCES, INCLUDING PRODUCTIONS OF "PRESERVING OUR CORAL REEF- AND "PETER AND THE WOLF" PRESENTED AT VENUES ACROSS BROWARD, MIAMI-DADE, AND MONROE COUNTIES. THROUGH THE ORGANIZATION'S PARTNERSHIP WITH JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT, AN ADDITIONAL 19,000 BROWARD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL 5TH GRADERS ENGAGED WITH THE PERFORMING ARTS THROUGH THE JA BIZTOWN PROGRAM. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMMING INCLUDED "COMMUNITY BEATS," BRINGING FREE POPS CONCERTS TO UNEXPECTED COMMUNITY SPACES, INCLUDING THE CITY OF WESTON TOWN CENTER AMPHITHEATER. IN ADDITION, THE SFSO CONTINUED ITS ROLE AS A CULTURAL LEADER AND ECONOMIC DRIVER IN THE REGION. AS THE LARGEST ORCHESTRAL EMPLOYER IN SOUTH FLORIDA, THE ORGANIZATION GENERATES EMPLOYMENT FOR NEARLY 300 MUSICIANS, PRODUCTION STAFF, AND ARTS ADMINISTRATORS ANNUALLY. THE SFSO CONTINUES TO HAVE AN IMMEASURABLE EFFECT ON THE COMMUNITIES IT SERVES.

    Expenses $3,016,572 · Grants $77,182 · Revenue $778,059

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.

  • Jacqueline Lorber

    PRESIDENT &

    Total calculated
    $85,334
    From this org
    $81,731
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,603
    Hours/week
    60

  • Sebrina Alfonso

    ARTISTIC DIR

    Total calculated
    $88,603
    From this org
    $85,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,603
    Hours/week
    40

  • Charles Lane

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Bill Beckman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Charles Green

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Bonnie Lauton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Linda Shagena

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Karissa Smith

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

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
    $2,715,488
    Expenses
    $4,101,739
    Contributions
    $1,918,088
    Grants paid
    $77,182
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,335,055
    Expenses
    $2,642,577
    Contributions
    $1,533,280
    Grants paid
    $24,649
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,161,567
    Expenses
    $2,340,796
    Contributions
    $1,576,027
    Grants paid
    $2,988

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
    $1,807,593
    Expenses
    $1,807,972
    Assets (EOY)
    $194,126

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,240,367
    Expenses
    $1,181,001
    Assets (EOY)
    $231,625

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,383,530
    Expenses
    $1,553,429
    Assets (EOY)
    $378,468

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,526,207
    Expenses
    $2,455,267
    Assets (EOY)
    $136,213

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $482,762
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,187

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

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Grants received

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.