Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Aug 1952.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
73 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
29 people listed on the 990.
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Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aNo
Programs and updates
Provides musical education and performance opportunities for students, teachers, and lifelong learners in the Columbus area.
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2024-25 indoor concerts included the masterworks series, with 12 programs (24 performances), and a series of special pops concerts (5 PROGRAMS/7 performances), which included the holiday pops spectacular and a program featuring the orchestra performing the score live along with screening of batman 1989.
The 2025 picnic with the pops and popcorn pops outdoor concert series in the columbus commons included nine (9) concert programs, which were attended by 17,769 individuals.
Cso education programs in the 2024 to 2025 season include a broad range of offerings designed to serve students, educators, and lifelong learners. Classroom programs include young people's concerts, in school concerts, the mindful music moments program, ensemble coaching, chamber performances, and an in school residency PROGRAM.CSO also…
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Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
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By the numbers
The FY2025 990, line by line.
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| Line | Start FY25 | End FY25 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $17.4M | $35.2M |
| Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c | $129K | $420K |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $77.4M | $81.1M |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $1.1M | $850K |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $76.4M | $80.3M |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grants to domestic individualsLn 2 | $8K | $8K | ||
| Other salaries and wagesLn 7 | $3.7M | $3.7M | $2K | |
| Pension plan contributionsLn 8 | $207K | $207K | ||
| Other employee benefitsLn 9 | $374K | $364K | $7K | $2K |
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $429K | $427K | $1K | |
| Management feesLn 11a | $357K | $357K | ||
| Legal feesLn 11b | $90K | $90K | ||
| Accounting feesLn 11c | $35K | $35K | ||
| Other fees for servicesLn 11g | $4.3M | $2.2M | $1.5M | $635K |
| Advertising and promotionLn 12 | $306K | $306K | ||
| Office expensesLn 13 | $494K | $410K | $37K | $47K |
| OccupancyLn 16 | $416K | $325K | $55K | $36K |
| TravelLn 17 | $220K | $142K | $34K | $44K |
| Depreciation, depletion and amortizationLn 22 | $40K | $40K | ||
| InsuranceLn 23 | $35K | $35K | ||
| Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24 | $482K | $441K | $32K | $9K |
| All other expensesLn 24e | $286K | $165K | $105K | $15K |
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $11.8M | $8.7M | $2.4M | $793K |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Latest Viewing | $13.0M | $11.8M | $1.2M | $80.3M | 990 PDF |
| FY2024 | $36.3M | $11.2M | $25.1M | $76.4M | 990 PDF |
| FY2023 | $14.0M | $10.7M | $3.3M | $47.3M | 990 PDF |
| FY2022 | $23.7M | $8.4M | $15.3M | $41.9M | 990 PDF |
| FY2021 | $10.0M | $6.3M | $3.7M | $29.7M | 990 PDF |
| FY2020 | $7.4M | $7.2M | $138K | $22.5M | 990 PDF |
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Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2025 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $13,035,349 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 28 of 28 board members independent, 1 to look at
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $13,035,349 across 11 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $11,824,084 across 17 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $81,145,880 assets, 16 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $80,295,999 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2025 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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