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THE WILMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC

EIN 56-1489990 WILMINGTON, NC

Revenue 2024
$681,317
Expenses 2024
$719,244

Program services were 57.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A69Z
Classification
2000
Street
5032 RANDALL PKWY

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 Wilmington Symphony Orchestra (WSO) provides symphonic music at the highest degree of excellance through performance opportunities for regaional musicians and educational and community outreach programs for our community's youth.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Wilmington Symphony Orchestra (WSO) provides symphonic music at the highest degree of excellance through performance opportunities for regional musicians and educational and community outreach programs for our community's youth.

  • Wilmington Symphony Orchestra held a series of performances for the local community, providing performance opportunities for area musicians and providing the region the cultural benefits of a symphony. WSO's orchestra members are drawn from the local community, although some specialty players are attracted from the wider region.

    Expenses $291,971 · Revenue $160,232

  • WSO hosts a youth orchestra which provides school-age performers with concert performance opportunities

    Expenses $13,093 · Revenue $48,442

  • WSO hosts various community and school outreach programs designed to bring symphonic music to students and the community at large

    Expenses $109,788

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.

  • Amato Joseph

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Austin Robert

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Bela Ivy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Birnbach Jane

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Browning Patricia

    director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Burgess Coleman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Dalgleish Marion

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Drescher Robert

    2nd Vice-President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Ellis Patricia Carol

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elsbree David

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Errante Steven

    Ex-Officio

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Hilliard Matthew

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leathers Aaron

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lerch Justine

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Meinhold Stephen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Meyer Kathy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Morris Autumn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Murrell Joy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Newton Joanne

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Primer Howard

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robinson Marva

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Roer Robert

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Scanlon Elizabeth

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $66,083
    From this org
    $66,083
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Smith Karen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Stevenson-Stohl Anne

    Director

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $681,317
    Expenses
    $719,244
    Contributions
    $415,438
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $569,571
    Expenses
    $712,446
    Contributions
    $307,696
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $624,228
    Expenses
    $572,490
    Contributions
    $369,819
    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
    $522,071
    Expenses
    $462,977
    Assets (EOY)
    $611,638

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $270,371
    Expenses
    $255,492
    Assets (EOY)
    $552,686

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $348,547
    Expenses
    $371,128
    Assets (EOY)
    $353,331

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $430,733
    Expenses
    $475,193
    Assets (EOY)
    $409,610

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $389,983
    Expenses
    $388,351
    Assets (EOY)
    $418,540

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $339,910
    Expenses
    $347,994
    Assets (EOY)
    $475,028

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $432,098
    Expenses
    $339,942
    Assets (EOY)
    $377,072

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $340,591
    Expenses
    $311,448
    Assets (EOY)
    $323,008

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $315,215
    Expenses
    $304,439
    Assets (EOY)
    $317,372

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $303,509
    Assets (EOY)
    $252,417

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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.