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MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC

EIN 62-6015885 MEMPHIS, TN

Revenue 2024
$4,082,630
Expenses 2024
$4,873,887

Program services were 82.9% 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
610 GOODMAN 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.

  • ABELL PETER

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $143,399
    From this org
    $133,046
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,353
    Hours/week
    40

  • MERRILL IRMA W

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FARMER JASON

    IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARUS RAMON

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELLISON DR DAVID

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MOODY ROBERT

    MUSIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $224,231
    From this org
    $211,523
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,708
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $211,523
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,346
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,362
    Filer's total
    $224,231

  • BREZINA DR PAUL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • COLLIER DABNEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CROSBY MARK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GERARD JERE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HEPPEL SCOTT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHNSON-DEAN DR CAROL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MAKOWSKY GARY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MAULDIN BACARRA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MCKISSACK MICHELLE ROBINSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MENDEL DR LISA LUCKS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PORTER SONYA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SARGEANT LARETHA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TUCKER MARY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WHITNEY SUSANNA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KNISLEY BRANDON E

    KEY EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $120,453
    From this org
    $110,768
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,685
    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. 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
    $4,082,630
    Expenses
    $4,873,887
    Contributions
    $2,684,190
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,679,056
    Expenses
    $4,552,708
    Contributions
    $4,475,588
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,684,929
    Expenses
    $4,720,503
    Contributions
    $3,560,014
    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 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.

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 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.

What this page reflects

The IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.