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HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

EIN 45-2861988 HONOLULU, HI

Revenue 2023
$5,107,537
Expenses 2023
$5,277,904

Program services were 78.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A69
Classification
1000
Street
3610 WAIALAE 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).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

TO PRESENT THE HIGHEST-QUALITY PERFORMANCES OF GREAT MUSIC, BRINGING NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DISTINCTION TO THE ORCHESTRA AND ITS COMMUNITY.TO DELIGHT AND EDUCATE AUDIENCES OF ALL AGES AND BACKGROUNDS, AND ENHANCE THE CULTURAL VITALITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN THESE ISLANDS AND TO OPERATE IN A FINANCIALLY SOUND MANNER.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ESTABLISH AND OPERATE A PROFESSIONAL SYMPHONY IN HAWAII THAT WILL PRESENT THE HIGHEST QUALITY PERFORMANCES OF GREAT MUSIC, BRINGING NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DISTINCTION TO THE ORCHESTRA AND THE COMMUNITY TO DELIGHT AND EDUCATE DIVERSE AUDIENCES OF ALL AGES AND ENHANCE THE CULTURAL VITALITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN THESE ISLANDS AND TO OPERATE IN A FINANCIALLY SOUND MANNER.

  • DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED 6/30/24, HSO PRESENTED AN EIGHTEEN-WEEK SERIES CONCERTS AND HAPASYMPHONY CONCERTS. HSO ALSO PRESENTED THE SYMPHONY OF THE HAWAII FORESTS TO STUDENTS AS WELL AS NUMEROUS PETER AND THE WOLF CONCERTS THROUGHOUT THE SEASON. CONCERTS WERE HELD AT HAWAII THEATRE, WAIKIKI SHELL, MOANALUA HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. IN ADDITION, THE ORCHESTRA PERFORMED FOR HAWAII OPERA THEATRE AND BALLET HAWAII PRODUCTIONS.

    Expenses $4,158,263 · Revenue $1,473,514

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • PAUL KOSASA

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • VICKY CAYETANO

    VICE CHAIRWOMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • KENNETH ROBBINS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JASON KRAVITT

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SHELLEY CRAMER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PETER DAMES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MITCHELL D'OLIER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RICHARD ING

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR TYRIE JENKINS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARILYN KATZMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • J DAVID KENNEDY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KATIE PICKMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHAEL TITTERTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VIRGINIA TIU

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JINYOUNG LEE WON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LUCY XIE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID MOSS

    FORMER PRESIDENT AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $199,596
    From this org
    $174,038
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,558
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $174,038
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,558
    Filer's total
    $199,596

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. 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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,107,537
    Expenses
    $5,277,904
    Contributions
    $3,595,927
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,109,783
    Expenses
    $5,234,393
    Contributions
    $3,579,662
    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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,732,337
    Expenses
    $5,857,276
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,519,510

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,474,515
    Expenses
    $2,657,462
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,884,208

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,427,588
    Expenses
    $2,636,872
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,894,808

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,220,672
    Expenses
    $5,176,375
    Assets (EOY)
    $462,791

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,979,944
    Expenses
    $5,177,600
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,221,320

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,486,862
    Expenses
    $4,822,527
    Assets (EOY)
    $233,607

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,475,562
    Expenses
    $4,831,415
    Assets (EOY)
    $213,863

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,209,551
    Expenses
    $4,337,860
    Assets (EOY)
    $358,224

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,202,877
    Expenses
    $4,364,289
    Assets (EOY)
    $357,866

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

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

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 2023 return

Declared as related by

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.