EL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSN

EIN 74-6000772 EL PASO, TX

Revenue 2024: $1,818,952
Expenses 2024: $1,795,733

Program services were 84.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A690
Classification: 2000
Street: PO BOX 180

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

EL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION, INC. (ASSOCIATION) IS A NONPROFIT CORPORATION. ITS PURPOSE IS TO SPONSOR A SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WHILE PERFORMING PUBLIC CONCERTS IN THE CITY OF EL PASO, TEXAS, AND TO PROVIDE SIGNIFICANT CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL VALUE. THE EL PASO SYMPHONY GUILD (GUILD) IS AN AUXILIARY ACTIVITY OF THE EL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION WHICH PROVIDES THE ASSOCIATION WITH VOLUNTEER AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT THROUGH COMMUNITY FUND RAISING PROJECTS. THE EL PASO SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA (EPSYO) WAS STARTED DURING 2006 AS ANOTHER AUXILIARY ACTIVITY OF THE EL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION. THE EPSYO PROVIDES YOUNG MUSICIANS IN THE EL PASO AREA WITH AN ORCHESTRAL EXPERIENCE MARKED BY EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE THROUGH A UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE EL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. EL PASO SYMPHONY FOUNDATION IS A SEPARATE CORPORATION WHICH PROVIDES THE ASSOCIATION WITH CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCES

Classical Performance

Expenses $824,266
Special Performance

Expenses $208,782
Education and Outreach

Expenses $419,806
GRANT TO EPSOA FOUNDATION

Expenses $65,000 · Grants $65,000

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.

RUTH ELLEN JACOBSON

EPSOA - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$105,081

From this org

$105,081

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

40 + 2 related
DEBBIE HAND

EPSOA- PAST CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2 + 2 related
MARISE TEXTOR

EPSOA - CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
JEFFREY T WEIKERT

EPSOA - CO-VP AUDIENCE DEVELOP

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
ANDRES SANDOVAL

EPSOA - VP ARTISTIC ADVISEMENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
MAX VILLARONGA

EPSOA - CHAIR ELECT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
CARMEN BYERS

EPSOA - VP EDUCATION & COMMUNI

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
JOANN LONGORIA

EPSOA - CO-VP MARKETING

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
VICTORIA PANETTA

EPSOA - CO-VP MARKETING

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
GARY MCCRORY

EPSOA - VP FINANCIAL DEVELOPME

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2 + 2 related
CB BURNS

EPSOA - MEMBER AT LARGE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
RUBEN HERNANDEZ

EPSOA - TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
ARLENE CARROLL

EPSOA- TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
MICHAEL A MONTES

EPSOA- VP FINANCIAL & ADMINIST

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
JESSICA CHRISTIANSON

EPSOA - TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
JOE CONZELMAN

EPSOA - MEMBER AT LARGE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
TOMAS B DELEON

EPSOA - TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
SECRET FENTON WHERRETT

EPSOA - MEMBER AT LARGE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
SCOTT FELIX

EPSOA - MEMBER AT LARGE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
MRS MARLENE STEWART

EPSOA - HONORARY TRUSTEES

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
KERRY ELLISON

EPSOA - EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2 + 2 related
JOY ZALKIND

ORCHESTRA COM. REPRESENTATIVE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
JENIFFER WOO

EPSOA - TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
ADOLFO TORRES JR

EPSOA - TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
LISA ELBJORN

EPSOA - TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2

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, 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

$1,818,952

Expenses

$1,795,733

Contributions

$776,641

Grants paid

$65,000
2023

Revenue

$1,984,683

Expenses

$1,964,844

Contributions

$890,647

Grants paid

$158,000
2022

Revenue

$1,901,328

Expenses

$1,887,007

Contributions

$893,637

Grants paid

$190,000

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$1,818,952	$1,795,733	$776,641	$65,000
2023	$1,984,683	$1,964,844	$890,647	$158,000
2022	$1,901,328	$1,887,007	$893,637	$190,000

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

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
2021 · 990

Revenue

$1,540,640

Expenses

$1,483,841

Assets (EOY)

$1,877,584
2021 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2020 · 990

Revenue

$1,201,709

Expenses

$1,264,683

Assets (EOY)

$1,980,481
2020 · 990

Revenue

$1,201,709

Expenses

$1,263,439

Assets (EOY)

$1,980,481
2020 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2019 · 990

Revenue

$1,703,631

Expenses

$1,597,250

Assets (EOY)

$1,669,122
2018 · 990

Revenue

$1,532,714

Expenses

$1,483,933

Assets (EOY)

$1,265,671

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2024	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2023	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2022	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2021	990	$1,540,640	$1,483,841	$1,877,584
2021	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2020	990	$1,201,709	$1,264,683	$1,980,481
2020	990	$1,201,709	$1,263,439	$1,980,481
2020	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2019	990	$1,703,631	$1,597,250	$1,669,122
2018	990	$1,532,714	$1,483,933	$1,265,671

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

EL PASO SYMPHONY FOUNDATION

$190,000

2022 THIS AMOUNT WAS MOVED TO FURTHER SECURE THE INCREASE OF FUNDS TO THE ORCHESTRA. THE FOUNDATION IS THE ORGANIZATION WHICH HANDLES INVESTMENTS TO THEN SUPPORT THE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION.
EL PASO SYMPHONY FOUNDATION

$158,000

2023 THIS AMOUNT WAS MOVED TO FURTHER SECURE THE INCREASE OF FUNDS TO THE ORCHESTRA. THE FOUNDATION IS THE ORGANIZATION WHICH HANDLES INVESTMENTS TO THEN SUPPORT THE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION.
EL PASO SYMPHONY FOUNDATION

$65,000

2024 THIS AMOUNT WAS MOVED TO FURTHER SECURE THE INCREASE OF FUNDS TO THE ORCHESTRA. THE FOUNDATION IS THE ORGANIZATION WHICH HANDLES INVESTMENTS TO THEN SUPPORT THE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$111,766

2022 Music education and outreach
EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$86,259

2023 Music education and outreach
EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$83,567

2024 Music education and outreach
THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION

$25,000

2022 ARTS PROGRAMMING
THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION

$25,000

2024 ARTS PROGRAMMING
THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION

$25,000

2023 ARTS PROGRAMMING
PLUSONEPLUSONEPLUSONE

$10,000

2022 Program Support
THE UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION INC

$10,000

2023 TOCANDO AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$6,700

2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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

EL PASO SYMPHONY FOUNDATION

501(C)(3) · SUPPORT EPSOA · TX

Declared as related by

EL PASO SYMPHONY FOUNDATION

On its 2024 return

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.