TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

EIN 38-2680276 TRAVERSE CITY, MI

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Revenue 2024: $1,229,868
Expenses 2024: $1,939,850

Program services were 68.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A69Z
Classification: 1000
Street: 1724 S GARFIELD 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 · 2024

Mission

TO PROMOTE AND INCREASE MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE AND MUSIC APPRECIATION TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH EDUCATION ACTIVITIES AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROMOTE AND INCREASE MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE AND MUSIC APPRECIATION TO THE PUBLIC.

PERFORMANCE OF SYMPHONY MUSIC TO AUDIENCES OF ALL AGES.

Expenses $1,327,701 · Revenue $391,791

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.

Sebastian GarbschSEBASTIAN GARBSCH

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Paul JarboePAUL JARBOE

VICE PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Lindsey Jonkhoff RogersLINDSEY JONKHOFF ROGERS

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Susan CogswellSUSAN COGSWELL

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Suzanne AlbrechtSUZANNE ALBRECHT

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Andrew ButhkerANDREW BUTHKER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Jeffrey CavistonJEFFREY CAVISTON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Dorothy CloreDOROTHY CLORE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Sherri DecampSHERRI DECAMP

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Sandra GraySANDRA GRAY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Janet HesslerJANET HESSLER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
David C JohnsonDAVID C JOHNSON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Gerard MahoneyGERARD MAHONEY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Mary Beth MilikenMARY BETH MILIKEN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Julius MossJULIUS MOSS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Lisa MusgraveLISA MUSGRAVE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Michael MusgraveMICHAEL MUSGRAVE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Alexis NinkALEXIS NINK

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Bob StreitBOB STREIT

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Suzy VoltzSUZY VOLTZ

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
M Woody WrightM WOODY WRIGHT

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Kedrik MerwinKEDRIK MERWIN

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$132,280

From this org

$132,280

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

50

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

$1,229,868

Expenses

$1,939,850

Contributions

$793,291

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$1,490,468

Expenses

$1,229,652

Contributions

$1,120,082

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$2,056,774

Expenses

$1,127,238

Contributions

$1,691,827

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$1,229,868	$1,939,850	$793,291	$0
2023	$1,490,468	$1,229,652	$1,120,082	$0
2022	$2,056,774	$1,127,238	$1,691,827	$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

2023 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2022 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2021 · 990

Revenue

$976,983

Expenses

$949,801

Assets (EOY)

$858,158
2021 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2020 · 990

Revenue

$725,991

Expenses

$533,524

Assets (EOY)

$891,843
2020 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2019 · 990

Revenue

$660,195

Expenses

$656,362

Assets (EOY)

$641,420
2018 · 990

Revenue

$784,721

Expenses

$749,784

Assets (EOY)

$708,218
2017 · 990

Revenue

$711,064

Expenses

$765,930

Assets (EOY)

$626,117
2016 · 990

Revenue

$757,136

Expenses

$806,598

Assets (EOY)

$616,782

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2023	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2022	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2021	990	$976,983	$949,801	$858,158
2021	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2020	990	$725,991	$533,524	$891,843
2020	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2019	990	$660,195	$656,362	$641,420
2018	990	$784,721	$749,784	$708,218
2017	990	$711,064	$765,930	$626,117
2016	990	$757,136	$806,598	$616,782

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

MSUFCU DESK DRAWER FOUNDATION

$100,000

2024 THE ARTS
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

$51,700

2023 ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS
ROTARY CHARITIES OF TRAVERSE CITY

$50,000

2022 ASSETS FOR THRIVING COMMUNITIES
GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$27,290

2022 ARTS AND CULTURE
GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$27,050

2024 ARTS, CULTURE
GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$21,980

2023 ARTS, CULTURE
CANTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$17,500

2023 OPERATING EXPENSES
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$11,950

2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

$10,000

2024 UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
CANTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$7,000

2024 OPERATING EXPENSES

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.