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DALLAS SYMPHONY FOUNDATION

EIN 75-1529851 DALLAS, TX

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Revenue 2024
$21,509,854
Expenses 2024
$21,471,347

Program services were 96.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A11
Classification
1000
Street
2301 FLORA STREET STE 300

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

THE PURPOSE OF THE DALLAS SYMPHONY FOUNDATION (DSF) IS TO MANAGE AND INVEST AN ENDOWMENT FUND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION (75-0705442), AND TO MAKE DISTRIBUTIONS TO THE DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION FROM THIS ENDOWMENT FUND. DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING MAY 31, 2025, THE FOUNDATION, PURSUANT TO A DISTRIBUTION POLICY ADOPTED BY THE DSF BOARD OF DIRECTORS, DISTRIBUTED $20,775,610 TO THE ASSOCIATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Dallas Symphony Foundation is operated for the benefit of, and to further the purposes of the Dallas Symphony Association

  • THE PURPOSE OF THE DALLAS SYMPHONY FOUNDATION (DSF) IS TO MANAGE AND INVEST AN ENDOWMENT FUND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION (75-0705442), AND TO MAKE DISTRIBUTIONS TO THE DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION FROM THIS ENDOWMENT FUND. DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING MAY 31, 2025, THE DSF, PURSUANT TO A DISTRIBUTION POLICY ADOPTED BY THE DSF BOARD OF DIRECTORS, DISTRIBUTED $20,775,610 TO THE ASSOCIATION.

    Expenses $20,778,011 · Grants $20,775,610 · Revenue $8,135,522

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.

  • Harold M Brierley

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Cherryl Peterman

    Board Member - TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Coley Clark

    Board Member - President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Yon Y Jorden

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • John Dayton

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Linda McFarland

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Melissa Stewart

    Board Member - Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Maisie Heiken

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Andrew Nall

    Board Member - Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Marc Nivet

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jeffrey M Robinson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Andrew Clugston

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Key Coker

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Steve Do

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Marc Gineris

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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
    $21,509,854
    Expenses
    $21,471,347
    Contributions
    $13,374,332
    Grants paid
    $20,775,610
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $28,857,752
    Expenses
    $15,620,558
    Contributions
    $24,116,741
    Grants paid
    $15,066,757
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $9,262,079
    Expenses
    $9,218,026
    Contributions
    $2,387,833
    Grants paid
    $8,597,412

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
    $12,980,267
    Expenses
    $10,158,407
    Assets (EOY)
    $145,117,113
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,232,150
    Expenses
    $12,284,545
    Assets (EOY)
    $157,055,307
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,964,088
    Expenses
    $7,618,512
    Assets (EOY)
    $133,993,770
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,056,251
    Expenses
    $10,800,043
    Assets (EOY)
    $131,584,938
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $18,274,415
    Expenses
    $6,912,515
    Assets (EOY)
    $139,674,640
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,654,964
    Expenses
    $6,163,469
    Assets (EOY)
    $131,718,838
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $43,819,815
    Expenses
    $6,232,802
    Assets (EOY)
    $119,628,634
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,254,753
    Expenses
    $6,032,365
    Assets (EOY)
    $117,873,466
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,409,660
    Expenses
    $6,133,308
    Assets (EOY)
    $111,714,795
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $6,044,862
    Assets (EOY)
    $104,676,169

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

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 SO.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.