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CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

EIN 36-2167823 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$125,909,695
Expenses 2024
$88,908,944

Program services were 76.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A690
Classification
1000
Street
220 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVE

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.

  • Jeff Alexander

    President

    Total calculated
    $990,985
    From this org
    $914,323
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $76,662
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $851,758
    Bonus
    $50,500
    Other
    $12,065
    Deferred
    $55,300
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,362
    Filer's total
    $990,985

  • Mary Louise Gorno

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Chester A Gougis

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Steven Shebik

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.1

  • Helen Zell

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.7

  • Renee Metcalf

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • William Adams IV

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.6

  • Mrs Robert A Beatty

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Arnold M Berlin

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Laurence O Booth

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • William G Brown

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Dean L Buntrock

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Bruce E Clinton

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Richard W Colburn

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4

  • Richard H Cooper

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Anthony T Dean

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Debora de Hoyos

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • John A Edwardson

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Thomas J Eyerman

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • David W Fox Sr

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Cyrus F Freidheim Jr

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • Mrs Robert W Galvin

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Paul C Gignilliat

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • Joseph B Glossberg

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4

  • Richard C Godfrey

    Life Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

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 — 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
    $125,909,695
    Expenses
    $88,908,944
    Contributions
    $73,115,707
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $125,469,447
    Expenses
    $88,621,632
    Contributions
    $71,465,790
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $80,827,722
    Expenses
    $85,601,183
    Contributions
    $24,278,183
    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

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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.

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.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • DCM INC.

    $303,287 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    $173,294 to charity

  • DCM INC.

    $97,081 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    $35,657 to charity

  • DCM INC.

    $378,834 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    $227,700 to charity

  • DCM INC.

    $174,529 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    $84,425 to charity

  • DCM INC.

    $411,311 raised

    2022 Commercial Fundraiser

    $262,581 to charity

  • DCM INC.

    $263,837 raised

    2022 Commercial Fundraiser

    $136,806 to charity

  • DCM INC.

    $537,139 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    $378,028 to charity

  • DCM INC.

    $181,200 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    $82,017 to charity

  • DCM INC.

    $421,123 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $267,867 to charity

  • DCM INC.

    $335,297 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $204,435 to charity

  • DCM INC.

    $680,443 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $477,153 to charity

  • DCM INC.

    $485,034 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $331,708 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 10 September 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.