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GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY SOCIETY

EIN 38-6005447 GRAND RAPIDS, MI

Revenue 2024
$26,841,771
Expenses 2024
$17,017,650

Program services were 82.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A690
Classification
2000
Street
300 OTTAWA AVE NW STE 100

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).

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.

  • KEITH ELDER

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $238,312
    From this org
    $215,951
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,361
    Hours/week
    38 + 2 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $215,951
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,361
    Filer's total
    $238,312

  • HAIJIN CHOI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $78,477
    From this org
    $37,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $41,477
    Hours/week
    2

  • PAUL AUSTIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $34,040
    From this org
    $33,359
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $681
    Hours/week
    2

  • LUIS AVILA

    IMMEDIATE PA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANNE BLAKE-DREHER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ALICIA CORDOBA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PATRICK CEBELAK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID DAMS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PAUL DOYLE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHAEL ELLIS

    VICE CHAIRPE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHUCK FRAYER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BARBARA HOHMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TRACEY HORNBECK

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DON HUNT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRAD LAACKMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANDY KELLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • HYUNG KIM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NATALIA KOVICAK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TERRENCE LEDBETTER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOSEPH LEVAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TIM LIANG

    VICE CHAIRPE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOE MANICA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BENNETT MORGAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PEG PADNOS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GINA PAUL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $26,841,771
    Expenses
    $17,017,650
    Contributions
    $24,292,501
    Grants paid
    $4,033,956
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $9,886,659
    Expenses
    $10,834,551
    Contributions
    $7,581,386
    Grants paid
    $25,430
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $9,638,402
    Expenses
    $10,876,158
    Contributions
    $7,106,309
    Grants paid
    $26,089

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
    $10,068,479
    Expenses
    $10,380,522
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,657,585

  • 2021 · 990-T

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

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,438,954
    Expenses
    $7,997,494
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,431,115

  • 2020 · 990-T

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

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,967,085
    Expenses
    $9,962,137
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,537,145

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,341,420
    Expenses
    $10,914,975
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,457,788

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,740,336
    Expenses
    $11,454,679
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,707,484

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,361,044
    Expenses
    $10,537,011
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,610,147

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

Where these grants went next →

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 2024 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.