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CHATTANOOGA SYMPHONY AND OPERA ASSOCIATION

EIN 62-6002098 CHATTANOOGA, TN

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Revenue 2024
$2,443,669
Expenses 2024
$1,859,358

Program services were 75.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A690
Classification
1200
Street
620 LINDSAY ST STE 210

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

TO PROVIDE HIGH-QUALITY MUSICAL PRESENTATIONS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS IN THE CHATTANOOGA AREA

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO INSPIRE, ENGAGE & ENRICH THE GREATER CHATTANOOGA COMMUNITY THROUGH MUSIC AND MUSIC EDUCATION.

  • PRODUCES A VARIETY OF LIVE MUSICAL PERFORMANCES OF SYMPHONY, OPERA AND POPS FOR A VARIETY OF AUDIENCES.

    Expenses $1,291,026 · Revenue $568,203

  • PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

    Expenses $72,529 · Grants $6,000

  • PROVIDES A YOUTH ORCHESTRA FOR THE COMMUNITY

    Expenses $46,413 · Revenue $45,141

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.

  • Amy Mahone

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chris Lykins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Holly Haynes

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ed Rusk

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sam Gowin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Don McDowell

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Katie Byrum

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mitch Carter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alice Marie Clark Danks

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Katrina Farmer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lauren Kaywood

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Neil Thomas

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Warren Barnett

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jo Coke

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bridget J Gibson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • William Green

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Todd Maynor

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Harriett Whitaker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Elizabeth Williams

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Susan Caminez

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $81,287
    From this org
    $81,287
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $2,443,669
    Expenses
    $1,859,358
    Contributions
    $1,504,391
    Grants paid
    $6,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,967,497
    Expenses
    $2,661,593
    Contributions
    $1,076,662
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,696,238
    Expenses
    $2,667,748
    Contributions
    $1,139,039
    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
    $2,680,505
    Expenses
    $2,315,866
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,736,698

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,209,869
    Expenses
    $1,348,844
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,661,078

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,025,892
    Expenses
    $2,334,032
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,906,022

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 11 November 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.