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KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY

EIN 43-1297475 KANSAS CITY, MO

Revenue 2024
$21,089,139
Expenses 2024
$27,168,596

Program services were 82.4% 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
1644 WYANDOTTE ST

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.

  • Daniel Beckley

    Chief Executive Officer

    Total calculated
    $414,289
    From this org
    $351,008
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $63,281
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $320,108
    Bonus
    $30,900
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $32,404
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,877
    Filer's total
    $414,289

  • Kenneth V Hager

    Vice Chair & Secretary/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Linda Gill Taylor

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shirley Bush Helzberg

    Chair Emerita

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bebe Kemper Hunt

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Valerie Chow

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Grant Burcham

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Hargroves

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jesse Yukimura

    Director

    Total calculated
    $98,164
    From this org
    $74,183
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,981
    Hours/week
    30

  • Jill Marchant

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joseph Lefevre

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $134,469
    From this org
    $90,953
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,516
    Hours/week
    30

  • Julian Kaplan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $128,234
    From this org
    $105,006
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,228
    Hours/week
    30

  • Linda S Stevens

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marny Sherman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Gentry

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Patrick A Valadez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott S Boswell Sr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shannon Finney

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $121,844
    From this org
    $95,669
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,175
    Hours/week
    30

  • Susan Chambers

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Susan Newburger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TIMOTHY P COOK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ursula Terrasi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Willy Pegues IV

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sara Lohe

    Chief Financial Officer

    Total calculated
    $159,651
    From this org
    $115,557
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $44,094
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $115,557
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $12,539
    Nontaxable benefits
    $31,555
    Filer's total
    $159,651

  • Ann Bilderback

    Principal Bassoon

    Total calculated
    $136,150
    From this org
    $102,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,150
    Hours/week
    30

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
    $21,089,139
    Expenses
    $27,168,596
    Contributions
    $8,997,710
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $22,656,209
    Expenses
    $24,948,403
    Contributions
    $10,461,725
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $19,964,351
    Expenses
    $21,660,713
    Contributions
    $10,186,031
    Grants paid
    $170,000

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

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

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 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 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.