Charity profile · Historical source record

Symphony Tacoma

EIN 91-6032976Arts, Culture, Humanities Washington Small

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

The mission

What this organization describes

Building Community Through Music

Inspiring audiences with live musical experiences that transcend tradition, the newly-renamed Symphony Tacoma (formerly Tacoma Symphony Orchestra) has been a vital part of Tacoma's cultural landscape for 70 years. Today's Symphony Tacoma is a metropolitan professional symphony orchestra with eighty-plus orchestral musicians and a volunteer chorus of 70. Keeping live musical performance alive in the heart of the region, Symphony Tacoma concertizes for an annual audience of nearly 20,000 citizens throughout Pierce County and the Greater Puget Sound area.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

77.32Overall score
out of 100

81.22Financial score
out of 100

74.00Accountability & 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$1,222,945

Total expenses · USD$1,209,023

Program expenses

$845,107.08 recorded amount

69.9%

Fundraising expenses

$95,512.82 recorded amount

7.9%

Administrative expenses

$267,194.08 recorded amount

22.1%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.12 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: Andrew Buelow
Recorded compensation: $90,647.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 7.49%

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 Symphony Tacoma
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	74.0
`category` Category	Arts, Culture, Humanities
`description` Mission & description	Inspiring audiences with live musical experiences that transcend tradition, the newly-renamed Symphony Tacoma (formerly Tacoma Symphony Orchestra) has been a vital part of Tacoma's cultural landscape for 70 years. Today's Symphony Tacoma is a metropolitan professional symphony orchestra with eighty-plus orchestral musicians and a volunteer chorus of 70. Keeping live musical performance alive in the heart of the region, Symphony Tacoma concertizes for an annual audience of nearly 20,000 citizens throughout Pierce County and the Greater Puget Sound area.
`ein` EIN	91-6032976
`tot_exp` Total expenses	1209023.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.221
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.12
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.079
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.6990000000000001
`fscore` Financial score	81.22
`leader` Recorded leader	Andrew Buelow
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	90647.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.07490000000000001
`motto` Tagline	Building Community Through Music
`name` Charity name	Symphony Tacoma
`tot_rev` Total revenue	1222945.0
`score` Overall score	77.32
`state` State code	WA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Performing Arts
`size` Source size label	small
`program_exp` Program expenses	845107.077
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	95512.817
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	267194.083

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.