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NEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC

EIN 04-2658082 NEW BEDFORD, MA

Revenue 2024
$2,252,147
Expenses 2024
$1,978,974

Program services were 72.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A69
Classification
2000
Street
128 UNION ST STE 204

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 BE A COMMUNITY LEADER IN ARTS EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE LOW COST CONCERTS FOR THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF THE NEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IS TO PLACE THE WORLD'S FINEST SYMPHONIC MUSIC AT THE CENTER OF THE CULTURAL LIFE OF THE SOUTH COAST AND TO WORK WITH OTHERS TO BRING CLASSICAL AND OTHER MUSIC INTO THE LIVES OF EVERYONE IN THEIR COMMUNITY. THE ORGANIZATION ENRICHES THE LIVES OF ADULTS AND CHILDREN THROUGH THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF GREAT MUSIC. THE ORGANIZATION PRESENTS PASSIONATE AND ENGAGING CONCERTS AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS AND PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES THAT DEEPEN THEIR ENJOYMENT OF MUSIC AND MAKE IT A PART OF THEIR DAILY LIVES.

  • THE NEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY IS A PROFESSIONAL ORCHESTRA THAT PERFORMS A CONCERT SEASON WITH GUEST ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. NBSO MUSICIANS ALSO PRESENT DOZENS OF SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCES EVERY YEAR THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH COAST.

    Expenses $293,149 · Revenue $233,109

  • NBSO EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS SERVED APPROXIMATELY 10,000 CHILDREN THROUGH (1) LEARNING IN CONCERT: AN INTERACTIVE CONCERT BY NBSO MUSICIANS IN LOCAL SCHOOLS; (2) YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS: STUDENTS ATTENDING A SPECIAL NBSO CHILDREN'S CONCERT AT THE Z; AND (3) NEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA: STUDENT MUSICIANS PLAYING IN FOUR ENSEMBLES RANGING FROM BEGINNERS TO ADVANCED.

    Expenses $1,142,034 · Revenue $72,216

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.

  • JANET COQUILLETTE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KEVIN HAMILTON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SUSAN LECLAIR

    CLERK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LAURA PARDEE SCHAEFER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ERIC HUBER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR ALBERT J FOX

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SUSAN MEAD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • EDWARD OTTENSMEYER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GEOFF SWETT

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SANDRIA R PARSONS

    TRUSTEE/BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR ALVIN MARCOVICI

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RAINA LAMADE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARGOT STONE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TBLAIR TAYLOR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID PRENTISS

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $136,764
    From this org
    $136,764
    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
    $2,252,147
    Expenses
    $1,978,974
    Contributions
    $1,553,800
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,915,830
    Expenses
    $1,732,687
    Contributions
    $1,209,736
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,712,888
    Expenses
    $1,638,528
    Contributions
    $1,119,881
    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
    $2,823,621
    Expenses
    $1,467,429
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,865,407

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,443,252
    Expenses
    $1,115,125
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,441,277

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,309,490
    Expenses
    $1,092,775
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,647,272

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,185,254
    Expenses
    $1,123,194
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,839,784

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,252,201
    Expenses
    $978,835
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,778,842

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,117,142
    Expenses
    $875,365
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,302,406

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,977,904
    Expenses
    $1,005,672
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,834,318

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,113,041
    Expenses
    $949,664
    Assets (EOY)
    $810,611

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,122,478
    Expenses
    $873,476
    Assets (EOY)
    $649,880

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $798,709
    Assets (EOY)
    $340,968

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