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THE VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

EIN 91-1281734 VANCOUVER, WA

Revenue 2024
$1,987,285
Expenses 2024
$1,915,131

Program services were 74.5% 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 525

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 ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN SW WASHINGTON BY PROVIDING SYMPHONIC MUSIC OF THE HIGHEST CALIBER IN LIVE PERFORMANCES AND THROUGH MUSIC EDUCATION IN THE SCHOOLS, CONCERT HALLS AND THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE PERFORMANCE OF SYMPHONIC MUSIC AND MUSIC EDUCATION IN THE VANCOUVER, WA COMMUNITY

  • PERFORMANCE OF SEVERAL CONCERTS, OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. EACH CONCERT HAD TWO PERFORMANCES.

    Expenses $1,427,061 · Revenue $356,385

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.

  • CAROL VAN NATTA

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • ANN BARDACKE

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID BLOOM MD

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TAMMY BLOOM MD

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PAUL CHRISTENSEN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RUSS GOCHNEAUR

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHARLENE HISS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KEN KIRN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TIM KRAFT

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHAEL LIU MD

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $638
    From this org
    $638
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID SMITH MD

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TRACY FORTMANN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STEVE HORENSTEIN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • IGOR SHAKHMAN

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $137,493
    From this org
    $137,493
    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
    $1,987,285
    Expenses
    $1,915,131
    Contributions
    $1,757,615
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,689,589
    Expenses
    $1,779,409
    Contributions
    $1,460,078
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,149,436
    Expenses
    $1,161,073
    Contributions
    $871,363
    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
    $1,084,980
    Expenses
    $984,192
    Assets (EOY)
    $703,629

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $913,941
    Expenses
    $732,808
    Assets (EOY)
    $456,487

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $770,598
    Expenses
    $749,836
    Assets (EOY)
    $319,329

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $724,580
    Expenses
    $686,655
    Assets (EOY)
    $273,814

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $637,474
    Expenses
    $570,797
    Assets (EOY)
    $206,404

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $524,931
    Expenses
    $593,347
    Assets (EOY)
    $155,336

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $559,915
    Expenses
    $539,623
    Assets (EOY)
    $181,290

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $493,572
    Expenses
    $486,397
    Assets (EOY)
    $141,941

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $438,668
    Expenses
    $478,606
    Assets (EOY)
    $132,797

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $414,970
    Assets (EOY)
    $163,271

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.

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.