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SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY

EIN 94-1156284 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$79,757,311
Expenses 2024
$82,280,690

Program services were 74.1% 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
DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL 201 VAN NESS

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.

  • PRISCILLA B GEESLIN

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • MATT COHLER

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • TRINE SORENSEN

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • MICHAEL PIERCE

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • F CURT KIRSCHNER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • AIDA M ALVAREZ

    MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • DAVID J BERGER - MEMBER

    BOARD OF GOVERNORS (THRU 08/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JEFF BHARKHDA

    MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • PAULA BLANK

    MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CAROL CASEY

    MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEAN CASH

    MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SOLOMON B CERA - MEMBER

    BOARD OF GOVERNORS (AS OF 04/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • IRIS CHAN

    MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • LUCAS CHANG - MEMBER

    BOARD OF GOVERNORS (THRU 08/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • TIFFANY CHANG

    MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JOHN S CHEN

    MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CLAUDINE CHENG - MEMBER

    BOARD OF GOVERNORS (AS OF 12/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAN COOPERMAN

    MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • MICHELE BEIGEL CORASH

    MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • GAIL COVINGTON

    MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • JEROME DODSON

    MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • MARY C FALVEY

    MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7

  • SAKURAKO FISHER

    MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • MARY A FRANCIS

    MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • A JOHN GAMBS

    MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $79,757,311
    Expenses
    $82,280,690
    Contributions
    $31,754,783
    Grants paid
    $179,716
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $67,804,953
    Expenses
    $84,591,090
    Contributions
    $26,467,798
    Grants paid
    $64,309
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $67,804,953
    Expenses
    $84,591,090
    Contributions
    $26,467,798
    Grants paid
    $64,309
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $71,106,401
    Expenses
    $80,926,407
    Contributions
    $41,073,575
    Grants paid
    $47,058

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

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.

  • ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

    $236,436 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    $117,289 to charity

  • ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

    $191,753 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    $99,498 to charity

  • ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

    $321,194 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    $209,614 to charity

  • ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

    $194,771 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    $99,466 to charity

  • ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

    $228,120 raised

    2022 Commercial Fundraiser

    $135,991 to charity

  • ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

    $215,656 raised

    2022 Commercial Fundraiser

    $90,602 to charity

  • ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

    $285,347 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    $182,163 to charity

  • ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

    $257,867 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    $178,796 to charity

  • ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

    $931,565 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $670,475 to charity

  • ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

    $271,092 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $156,435 to charity

  • ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

    $576,348 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $424,083 to charity

  • ARTSMARKETING SERVICES INC.

    $244,455 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $126,426 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.