SYMPHONY VOLUNTEERS INC

EIN 72-1199318 NEW ORLEANS, LA

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Revenue 2025: $240,779
Expenses 2025: $239,674

Program services were 35.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
Classification: 1000
Street: PO BOX 4036

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 · 2025

Mission

To Serve, Support and Promote the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. To Create and Promote interest and support for Philharmonic music. To promote and foster music education. To encourage volunteer support from membership and the community. To raise funds to accomplish these goals

Promoted interest and support for the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra by encouraging volunteer support from membership and the community, sponsoring music events and providing financial support through cash donations to LPO

Expenses $85,550 · Grants $85,000

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Heidi Charters

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.3
Linda Ferguson

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.3
Kathy Gaspard

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.3
Josette Seifert

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.3
Donna Howland

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.3
Gretchen Bosworth

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Nora Wetzel

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.3
Marcia Davila

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.3
Barbara Beckman

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.3
Diane Johns

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.3
Emel Mize

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.3
Blanca Maldonado

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Jaime Johnston

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.3
Nancy Fridge

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Charlotte Lewis

VP Administration

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1 + 6 related
Philip Straub

Financial Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Robin Reed

VP Programming

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Diane Butler

Parliamintarian

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.3
Margaret Long

Encore Shop Chair

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
Celena Neal

VP Programming

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.3
Dale Fleishmann

Corresponding Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Janet Blowhowsiak

Book Fair

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
Evelyn Pugh

Recording secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.3
Robert Lewis

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
Amy Ferguson

Immediate past president

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2025

Revenue

$240,779

Expenses

$239,674

Contributions

$237,462

Grants paid

$85,000
2024

Revenue

$242,348

Expenses

$248,338

Contributions

$239,589

Grants paid

$100,000
2023

Revenue

$274,856

Expenses

$303,620

Contributions

$268,595

Grants paid

$159,000
2022

Revenue

$295,116

Expenses

$276,063

Contributions

$272,882

Grants paid

$140,000

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$240,779	$239,674	$237,462	$85,000
2024	$242,348	$248,338	$239,589	$100,000
2023	$274,856	$303,620	$268,595	$159,000
2022	$295,116	$276,063	$272,882	$140,000

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

$266,987

Expenses

$217,179

Assets (EOY)

$298,973
2020 · 990

Revenue

$148,690

Expenses

$136,982

Assets (EOY)

$260,875
2019 · 990

Revenue

$145,846

Expenses

$214,834

Assets (EOY)

$249,008
2018 · 990

Revenue

$263,449

Expenses

$282,737

Assets (EOY)

$314,447
2017 · 990

Revenue

$279,917

Expenses

$232,627

Assets (EOY)

$334,079
2016 · 990

Revenue

$237,809

Expenses

$225,369

Assets (EOY)

$290,072
2015 · 990

Revenue

$247,892

Expenses

$243,535

Assets (EOY)

$276,306
2014 · 990

Revenue

$248,109

Expenses

$236,956

Assets (EOY)

$268,318
2013 · 990

Revenue

$226,415

Expenses

$208,539

Assets (EOY)

$258,080
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$230,199

Assets (EOY)

$242,585

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$266,987	$217,179	$298,973
2020	990	$148,690	$136,982	$260,875
2019	990	$145,846	$214,834	$249,008
2018	990	$263,449	$282,737	$314,447
2017	990	$279,917	$232,627	$334,079
2016	990	$237,809	$225,369	$290,072
2015	990	$247,892	$243,535	$276,306
2014	990	$248,109	$236,956	$268,318
2013	990	$226,415	$208,539	$258,080
2012	990	not reported	$230,199	$242,585

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

LA Philharmonic Orchestra

$159,000

2023 General Support
LA Philharmonic Orchestra

$140,000

2022 General Support
LA Philharmonic Orchestra

$100,000

2024 General Support
LA Philharmonic Orchestra

$85,000

2025 General Support

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.