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THE VIRGINIA SYMPHONY FOUNDATION

EIN 52-1597415 NORFOLK, VA

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Revenue 2024
$251,795
Expenses 2024
$505,751

Program services were 88.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
150 BOUSH ST STE 201

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 201). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA BY ADMINISTERING FUNDS AND PROPERTY, ENGAGING IN OTHER ACTIVITIES AS QUALIFY FOR AN EXEMPT ORGANIZATION, SOLICIT AND RECEIVE FUNDS AND PROPERTY BY GIFT, TRANSFER, DEVISE OR BEQUEST AND ADMINISTERING AND APPLYING SUCH FUNDS AND PROPERTY ONLY IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE PURPOSES.THE FOUNDATION ALSO RECEIVES RESTRICTED GIFTS WHOSE INVESTMENT INCOME IS DISTRIBUTED TO THE SYMPHONY ANNUALLY FOR CERTAIN PROGRAMMING ACTIVITIES INCLUDING FAMILY CONCERTS, EDUCATION, MASTER CLASSES, PROGRAMMING AND OUTREACH IN THE SUFFOLK AREA AND TO UNDERWRITE GUEST ARTISTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO RECEIVE FUNDS AND PROPERTY BY GIFT, TRANSFER, DEVISE OR BEQUEST AND ADMINISTRATE AND APPLY SUCH FUNDS IN SUPPORT OF THE VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WHICH IS A LEADING CULTURAL ASSET CONNECTING EVERYONE IN HAMPTON ROADS THROUGH THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF EXCEPTIONAL MUSICAL PERFORMANCES AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES.

  • FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.

    Expenses $446,008 · Grants $446,008

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.

  • Bette Minette Cooper

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Winthrop Short Jr

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bob Petterson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Jane Short

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steve Winter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Patrick McDermott

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Howard Kern

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Chris Johnson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael McClellan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Gordon Robertson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Tim Faulkner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Andrea Warren

    EXEC. DIRECTOR - FORMER

    Total calculated
    $165,479
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $165,000
    Other
    $479
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $165,000 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $479 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $165,479 related
  • Yolanda Sponney

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE (AS OF 6/8/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related
  • Shannon Kelley

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $140,479
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $140,000
    Other
    $479
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

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
    $251,795
    Expenses
    $505,751
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $446,008
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $521,089
    Expenses
    $439,652
    Contributions
    $270,742
    Grants paid
    $380,554
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,358,445
    Expenses
    $366,054
    Contributions
    $1,381,686
    Grants paid
    $308,313

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
    $1,917,405
    Expenses
    $306,216
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,875,824
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,832,881
    Expenses
    $242,888
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,541,686
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $36,172
    Expenses
    $254,855
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,727,364
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,182,668
    Expenses
    $752,659
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,766,912
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $221,942
    Expenses
    $265,740
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,296,928
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $29,813
    Expenses
    $355,156
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,307,004
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $126,024
    Expenses
    $265,550
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,431,314
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $110,617
    Expenses
    $275,820
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,767,966
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $540,342
    Expenses
    $256,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,043,255
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $228,793
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,745,310

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 11 November 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.

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.