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EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

EIN 75-6013387 TYLER, TX

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Revenue 2024
$1,188,184
Expenses 2024
$1,327,453

Program services were 69.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A69Z
Classification
2300
Street
PO BOX 6323

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Providing the highest possible quality of symphonic entertainment through the presentation of classical and contemporary music in diverse settings. Educating, enriching and enlightening audiences, individuals, organizations, and groups about classical and contemporary music. Providing a diverse musical fabric to East Texans through the commissioning of compositions, recording performances and presentation of a variety of musical works and musicians. Becoming a premier orchestra association within our American Symphony Orchestra league peer group.

  • THE MISSION OF THE EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IS TO ENGAGE AND INSPIRE OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH EXCEPTIONAL MUSIC EDUCATION AND PERFORMANCE. THE 2024-2025 SEASON ACTIVITIES INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING:A. A FULL FIVE-CONCERT SUBSCRIPTION SERIES AT THE UT TYLER COWAN CENTER, SERVING A CUMMULATIVE AUDIENCE OF APPROXIMATELY 5,000 PEOPLE.B. CONTINUATION OF ANNUAL ETSO/CARNEGIE HALL EDUCATION PROGRAM LINK UP, CULMINATING IN FOUR PARTICAPATORY CONCERTS PRESENTED AT TYLER HIGH SCHOOL AND SERVING OVER 3,000 4TH AND 5TH-GRADE STUDENTS FROM TYLER AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.C. PRESENTATION OF THE THIRD ANNUAL LABOR DAY WEEKEND SYMPHONY IN THE PARK AT BERGFELD PARK IN TYLER, TX. THIS FREE FAMILY CONCERT WAS OFFERED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY OF TYLER AND DREW AN AUDIENCE OF OVER 1,700 RESIDENTS.D. PRESENTATION OF A CONCERT CELEBRATING THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, TOTALITY. THE CONCERT WAS PRESENTED IN COLLABORATION WITH TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE IN ITS NEW ROGERS PALMER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. TWO PERFORMANCES WERE PRESENTED, SERVING APPROXIMATELY 1,600 PATRONS.E. ETSO CONTINUED ITS FREE SUMMER FREE SMALL ENSEMBLE PROGRAMS AT TRUE VINE BREWING CO, FOCUSING ON LATIN BEATS AND HONORING THE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT. THE CONCERT DREW AN AUDIENCE OF APPROXIMATELY 250.

    Expenses $920,478 · Revenue $355,288

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Robin Hampton

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $106,005
    From this org
    $97,771
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,234
    Hours/week
    40
  • Annette Findley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Terry Witter

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cameron Cooper

    CHAIR ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ashley Bracken

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Betty Bower

    CO VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stratton Hibbs

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jennifer Hines

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Linda Pesnell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nancy Ulrich

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Octavio Tellez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tisa Hibbs

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Stein

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gonzalo Egana

    CO VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ebb Torres

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Scott Martinez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Daniel Watkins

    CO VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Richard Nichols

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jon Sanders

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sheryl Rogers Palmer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ed Broussard

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gail Wallace

    CO Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Laura Barker

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Donna Johnson

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $1,188,184
    Expenses
    $1,327,453
    Contributions
    $846,379
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,279,347
    Expenses
    $1,243,349
    Contributions
    $844,901
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,057,064
    Expenses
    $1,078,288
    Contributions
    $724,362
    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
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,273,295
    Expenses
    $981,856
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,162,409
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $555,645
    Expenses
    $327,163
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,216,542
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,082,512
    Expenses
    $737,213
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,205,795
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $956,246
    Expenses
    $1,032,507
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,073,237
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,010,035
    Expenses
    $1,024,464
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,122,516

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

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.

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

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.