Charity profile · Historical source record

Nashville Symphony

EIN 62-0550979Arts, Culture, Humanities Tennessee Large

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Dedicated to excellence in performance and education programs, while engaging the community and shaping cultural life.

Led by Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero and President and CEO Alan D. Valentine, the GRAMMY® Award-winning Nashville Symphony has earned international recognition for its artistic achievement and its acoustically superb concert hall, Schermerhorn Symphony Center. With 140 performances annually, the 81-member orchestra is an arts leader in Middle Tennessee and beyond, offering a broad range of classical, pops, jazz, special events, and family concerts. In addition to its concert schedule, the ensemble provides numerous education and community engagement programs that reach more than 200,000 people annually. The Nashville Symphony is recognized as a leading recording orchestra, having released 21 recordings since 2000. The orchestra has earned 14 GRAMMY® nominations and seven GRAMMY® wins.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

89.42Overall score
out of 100

87.36Financial score
out of 100

92.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

These are the dataset’s historical numeric fields, not a current rating or a new DonorAPI.com assessment. Read the score context ↗

Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$21,841,887

Total expenses · USD$25,298,449

Program expenses

$21,680,770.79 recorded amount

85.7%

Fundraising expenses

$1,239,624.00 recorded amount

4.9%

Administrative expenses

$2,327,457.31 recorded amount

9.2%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.16 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Alan D. Valentine
Recorded compensation: $352,740.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 1.39%

These fields do not establish the current officeholder or current compensation. The metadata does not specify the denominator of the leader compensation percentage. Read with context ↗

Inspect all 23 original source fields

Exact source strings are retained below, including numeric precision. A blank value is marked as not reported; zero remains zero.

All 23 original fields for Nashville Symphony
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	92.0
`category` Category	Arts, Culture, Humanities
`description` Mission & description	Led by Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero and President and CEO Alan D. Valentine, the GRAMMY® Award-winning Nashville Symphony has earned international recognition for its artistic achievement and its acoustically superb concert hall, Schermerhorn Symphony Center. With 140 performances annually, the 81-member orchestra is an arts leader in Middle Tennessee and beyond, offering a broad range of classical, pops, jazz, special events, and family concerts. In addition to its concert schedule, the ensemble provides numerous education and community engagement programs that reach more than 200,000 people annually. The Nashville Symphony is recognized as a leading recording orchestra, having released 21 recordings since 2000. The orchestra has earned 14 GRAMMY® nominations and seven GRAMMY® wins.
`ein` EIN	62-0550979
`tot_exp` Total expenses	25298449.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.092
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.16
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.049
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.857
`fscore` Financial score	87.36
`leader` Recorded leader	Alan D. Valentine
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	352740.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0139
`motto` Tagline	Dedicated to excellence in performance and education programs, while engaging the community and shaping cultural life.
`name` Charity name	Nashville Symphony
`tot_rev` Total revenue	21841887.0
`score` Overall score	89.42
`state` State code	TN
`subcategory` Subcategory	Performing Arts
`size` Source size label	big
`program_exp` Program expenses	21680770.792999998
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	1239624.0010000002
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	2327457.3079999997

Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.