PORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A690

Classification

1000

Street

85 EXCHANGE ST 4TH FLOOR

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

• THE PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, CHARTERED IN 1932, IS MAINE'S LARGEST PROFESSIONAL ORCHESTRA WITH AN ANNUAL BUDGET OF 5.6 MILLION FOR ITS 100TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON. DURING THE 2024-2025 SEASON, THE SYMPHONY REMAINED CONNECTED TO AUDIENCES BY BOTH OFFERING LIVE PERFORMANCES AS WELL AS DIGITALLY OFFERING TWO CONCERTS RECORDED AT MERRILL AUDITORIUM. PERFORMANCES INCLUDE A GALA, 8 CLASSICAL, 4 POPS, 3 DISCOVERY FAMILY CONCERTS, 1 YOUTH CONCERT, THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS CONCERT SERIES, MULTIPLE SCHOOL LESSONS, KINDERKONZERTS, AND A 2-CONCERT SUMMER SERIES IN OLD ORCHARD SEASIDE PAVILION.

  Expenses $3,674,974 · Revenue $2,641,728

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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. 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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $5,525,052

  Expenses

  $5,690,781

  Contributions

  $2,034,427

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,332,163

  Expenses

  $4,464,312

  Contributions

  $1,876,666

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $4,272,536

  Expenses

  $4,317,015

  Contributions

  $2,068,548

  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

• 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

  $3,659,418

  Expenses

  $4,144,859

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,736,748

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,241,814

  Expenses

  $2,823,892

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,854,922

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,549,911

  Expenses

  $3,416,933

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,519,236

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,148,692

  Expenses

  $3,609,101

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,964,660

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,950,804

  Expenses

  $3,791,049

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,563,748

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

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $152,300

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $106,170

  2024 · Symphony Orchestras

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $73,778

  2023 · ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS

• MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $72,540

  2022 · Symphony Orchestras

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $67,350

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $48,060

  2023 · Symphony Orchestras

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $47,425

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $34,607

  2023 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $26,500

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $25,250

  2024 · CULTURE & ARTS

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.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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