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| (i) Name of supported organization | (ii) EIN | (iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 10 above (see instructions)) | (iv) Is the organization listed in your governing document? | (v) Amount of monetary support (see instructions) | (vi) Amount of other support (see instructions) | |
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Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2014 | (b) 2015 | (c) 2016 | (d) 2017 | (e) 2018 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grant.") .. | 8,385,674 | 5,767,932 | 9,238,119 | 7,229,539 | 6,672,532 | 37,293,796 |
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf.... | ||||||
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | ||||||
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3 | 8,385,674 | 5,767,932 | 9,238,119 | 7,229,539 | 6,672,532 | 37,293,796 |
| 5 | The portion of total contributions by each person (other than a governmental unit or publicly supported organization) included on line 1 that exceeds 2% of the amount shown on line 11, column (f).. | 3,153,102 | |||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 34,140,694 | |||||
Calendar year
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(a) 2014 | (b) 2015 | (c) 2016 | (d) 2017 | (e) 2018 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 8,385,674 | 5,767,932 | 9,238,119 | 7,229,539 | 6,672,532 | 37,293,796 |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | 628,403 | 664,131 | 557,458 | 581,346 | 679,447 | 3,110,785 |
| 9 | Net income from unrelated business activities, whether or not the business is regularly carried on.. | ||||||
| 10 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.).. | 188,672 | 192,054 | 186,383 | 170,714 | 737,823 | |
| 11 | Total support. Add lines 7 through 10 | 41,142,404 | |||||
Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2014 | (b) 2015 | (c) 2016 | (d) 2017 | (e) 2018 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") . | ||||||
| 2 | Gross receipts from admissions, merchandise sold or services performed, or facilities furnished in any activity that is related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose | ||||||
| 3 | Gross receipts from activities that are not an unrelated trade or business under section 513 ..... | ||||||
| 4 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf... | ||||||
| 5 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge | ||||||
| 6 | Total. Add lines 1 through 5 | ||||||
| 7a | Amounts included on lines 1, 2, and 3 received from disqualified persons | ||||||
| b | Amounts included on lines 2 and 3 received from other than disqualified persons that exceed the greater of $5,000 or 1% of the amount on line 13 for the year. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 7a and 7b.. | ||||||
| 8 | Public support. (Subtract line 7c from line 6.) | ||||||
Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2014 | (b) 2015 | (c) 2016 | (d) 2017 | (e) 2018 | (f) Total | |
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| 9 | Amounts from line 6... | ||||||
| 10a | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources.. | ||||||
| b | Unrelated business taxable income (less section 511 taxes) from businesses acquired after June 30, 1975. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 10a and 10b. | ||||||
| 11 | Net income from unrelated business activities not included in line 10b, whether or not the business is regularly carried on. | ||||||
| 12 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.) .. | ||||||
| 13 | Total support. (Add lines 9, 10c, 11, and 12.).. | ||||||
| Section A - Adjusted Net Income | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Net short-term capital gain | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Other gross income (see instructions) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Add lines 1 through 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Depreciation and depletion | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Portion of operating expenses paid or incurred for production or collection of gross income or for management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for production of income (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Other expenses (see instructions) | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Adjusted Net Income (subtract lines 5, 6 and 7 from line 4) | 8 | ||||
| Section B - Minimum Asset Amount | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Aggregate fair market value of all non-exempt-use assets (see instructions for short tax year or assets held for part of year): | 1 | ||||
| a | Average monthly value of securities | 1a | ||||
| b | Average monthly cash balances | 1b | ||||
| c | Fair market value of other non-exempt-use assets | 1c | ||||
| d | Total (add lines 1a, 1b, and 1c) | 1d | ||||
| e |
Discount claimed for blockage or other factors (explain in detail in Part VI): |
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| 2 | Acquisition indebtedness applicable to non-exempt use assets | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Subtract line 2 from line 1d | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Cash deemed held for exempt use. Enter 1-1/2% of line 3 (for greater amount, see instructions). | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Net value of non-exempt-use assets (subtract line 4 from line 3) | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Multiply line 5 by .035 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Minimum Asset Amount (add line 7 to line 6) | 8 | ||||
| Section C - Distributable Amount | Current Year | |||||
| 1 | Adjusted net income for prior year (from Section A, line 8, Column A) | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Enter 85% of line 1 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Minimum asset amount for prior year (from Section B, line 8, Column A) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Enter greater of line 2 or line 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Income tax imposed in prior year | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Distributable Amount. Subtract line 5 from line 4, unless subject to emergency temporary reduction (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| Section D - Distributions | Current Year | |
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| 1 Amounts paid to supported organizations to accomplish exempt purposes | ||
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Amounts paid to perform activity that directly furthers exempt purposes of supported organizations, in excess of income from activity |
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| 3 Administrative expenses paid to accomplish exempt purposes of supported organizations | ||
| 4 Amounts paid to acquire exempt-use assets | ||
| 5 Qualified set-aside amounts (prior IRS approval required) | ||
| 6 Other distributions (describe in Part VI). See instructions | ||
| 7Total annual distributions. Add lines 1 through 6. | ||
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Distributions to attentive supported organizations to which the organization is responsive (provide details in Part VI). See instructions |
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| 9 Distributable amount for 2018 from Section C, line 6 | ||
| 10 Line 8 amount divided by Line 9 amount | ||
| Section E - Distribution Allocations (see instructions) |
(i) Excess Distributions |
(ii) Underdistributions Pre-2018 |
(iii) Distributable Amount for 2018 |
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Distributable amount for 2018 from Section C, line 6 |
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Underdistributions, if any, for years prior to 2018 (reasonable cause required-- explain in Part VI). See instructions. |
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| 3 Excess distributions carryover, if any, to 2018: | ||||
| a From 2013....... | ||||
| b From 2014....... | ||||
| c From 2015....... | ||||
| d From 2016....... | ||||
| e From 2017....... | ||||
| fTotal of lines 3a through e | ||||
| g Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| h Applied to 2018 distributable amount | ||||
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Carryover from 2013 not applied (see instructions) |
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| j Remainder. Subtract lines 3g, 3h, and 3i from 3f. | ||||
| 4Distributions for 2018 from Section D, line 7: | ||||
| $ | ||||
| a Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| b Applied to 2018 distributable amount | ||||
| c Remainder. Subtract lines 4a and 4b from 4. | ||||
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5
Remaining underdistributions for years prior to 2018, if any. Subtract lines 3g and 4a from line 2. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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6
Remaining underdistributions for 2018. Subtract lines 3h and 4b from line 1. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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7 Excess distributions carryover to 2019. Add lines 3j and 4c. |
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| 8 Breakdown of line 7: | ||||
| a Excess from 2014...... | ||||
| b Excess from 2015..... | ||||
| c Excess from 2016..... | ||||
| d Excess from 2017..... | ||||
| e Excess from 2018..... | ||||
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| Schedule A, Part II, Line 10, Explanation of Other Income: | Distribution from perpetual trust - 2014 Amount: $ 188,672. 2015 Amount: $ 192,054. 2016 Amount: $ 186,383. 2017 Amount: $ 170,714. 2018 Amount: $ 0. |
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| Part III Line 4a | ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENTS SPCO Musician-led Performances Firmly established as a primarily unconducted ensemble led by its own musicians, the SPCO presented 82 unconducted, musician-led performances in the 2018.19 season. Eleven SPCO musicians were featured as soloists with the orchestra, some soloing on multiple programs throughout the season. Several SPCO musicians also performed in small ensembles for SPCO at Icehouse, SPCO at Turf Club, and the Chamber Music Series. Inaugural Tapestry Festival In the 2018.19 season, the SPCO launched Tapestry - a new biennial festival that uses the language of music to explore issues faced by our community and invites members of our community to lend their voices and viewpoints to the exploration. In the inaugural 2019 festival, Tapestry19: Musical Reflections on Home, the SPCO explored the central question: "How do I recognize my home?" SPCO Music Alive Composer-in-Residence Lembit Beecher and musicians of the SPCO curated Tapestry19 to include many musical responses to that question from a diverse set of composers and artists and engaged with a wide range of collaborators to explore home from their unique perspectives. Voices from the SPCO's home, the Twin Cities community, were central to this festival. Tapestry19 featured the world premiere of Twin Cities interdisciplinary artist, vocalist and composer PaviElle French's A Requiem for Zula, a tribute to her mother and her upbringing in Saint Paul's Rondo neighborhood, which was French's first-ever work written for orchestra. In addition, a new work by Beecher featured poetry by Twin Cities writer and University of Saint Thomas professor Chris Santiago, along with stories about home recorded by Twin Cities community members in the year leading up to the festival. Tapestry19 also featured the world premiere of a new work by Syrian composer Kinan Azmeh about the collective memories of growing up in Syria in the 1980s, and a newly commissioned work by 17-year-old American composer Maya Miro Johnson. Tapestry19 spanned several SPCO concert series, including the Liquid Music Series, which presented a work-in-progress event with Twin Cities Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer Ashwini Ramaswamy, hosted by TU Dance artistic director Toni Pierce-Sands. In partnership with the East Side Freedom Library, the SPCO posed the central question of Tapestry19 - how do you recognize home? - to a talented group of artists from around the Twin Cities, who responded to this question from their own perspectives, utilizing a wide range of media, including instrumental music, spoken word, and song-form. Premieres and Commissions The SPCO commissioned five new pieces and performed premieres of seven new works. In addition to works commissioned and premiered as part of the Tapestry19 Festival, other premieres included Watermark, a new piano concerto by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw as the fourth installment in its five-year Beethoven/5 Project with pianist Jonathan Biss, which pairs newly commissioned piano concertos with one of Beethoven's five piano concertos that inspired it. Vijay Iyer's Asunder and Tyshawn Sorey's Autoschediasms were also premiered in a program with SPCO Artistic Partner Pekka Kuusisto. The SPCO's Liquid Music Series commissioned and presented world premieres of five projects during the 2018.19 season. Casals Festival of Puerto Rico The SPCO traveled to Puerto Rico in March 2019 to participate in the 2019 Casals Festival. Since its founding in 1957 by Spanish composer, cellist and conductor Pablo Casals, the festival has brought some of the world's leading artists to San Juan every year. For the 2019 festival, the SPCO joined artists such as renowned Spanish early music master Jordi Savall, French pianist Rmi Geniet, Israeli cellist Amit Peled, American pianist Noreen Polera, the Daz Trio and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra. On March 5, pianist and former SPCO Artistic Partner Christian Zacharias joined the orchestra to perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 and to conduct Beethoven's Second Symphony. SPCO musicians Ruggero Allifranchini (violin) and Hyobi Sim (viola) were featured as soloists on Jrg Widmann's Aria for String Orchestra. To support continued recovery efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017, the SPCO invited members of its organization and its audiences to contribute to El Fondo Boricua, a donor advised fund of the Saint Paul Foundation dedicated to hurricane recovery and enhancing sustainability of life on the island in the aftermath of the catastrophic natural disaster. Newly Appointed SPCO Musicians At the beginning of the 2018.19 season, two new permanent members started with the orchestra - both in principal positions. James Ferree was appointed as Principal Horn and throughout the 2018.19 season, music arranged and composed by Ferree was performed by the orchestra. Sang Yoon Kim was announced as the new Principal Clarinet and was featured as a soloist in the 2018.19 season on Weber's Rondo for Clarinet and Strings. At the end of the 2018.19 season, three additional appointments to the orchestra were announced: Cassie Pilgrim as Principal Oboe, Richard Belcher as a new member of the orchestra's cello section and Eunae Koh as a new violinist with the orchestra. These musicians saw their first official performances in their new positions at the start of the 2019.20 season. SPCO CELEBRATES 60TH ANNIVERSARY Thanks to the generosity of the Twin Cities community, the SPCO has been sharing music for six decades. The 2018.19 season marked the 60th concert season for the SPCO. The organization thanked the community for its generous support and celebrated this anniversary throughout the season with special events, media projects and a "Celebrate 60" fundraising campaign designed to advance the goals of the SPCO's strategic plan and ensure the organization can continue to enrich the community for decades to come. ARTS PARTNERSHIP COLLABORATION In October 2018, the SPCO joined fellow members of the Arts Partnership (the Ordway, Minnesota Opera and Schubert Club) in presenting Sphinx Virtuosi, a chamber ensemble comprised of the nation's top Black and Latinx string soloists, at the Ordway Concert Hall. The Sphinx Organization is dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts, and the Arts Partnership was pleased to collaborate with Sphinx for the third consecutive year in its work to address the underrepresentation of people of color in classical music. The SPCO teamed up again with its fellow Arts Partnership organizations in April 2019 to launch the second annual Family Arts Blast, a free family event that welcomed hundreds of families to the Ordway Center to participate in a plethora of arts activities and performances. Children and their families had the opportunity to explore music, dance, theater and more with creative hands-on activities happening throughout the building. The partnership worked to make the event as inclusive as possible, presenting artists of color, providing event materials in multiple languages, and providing translators to interpret the performances and activities for non-English speaking attendees. In addition to collaborating on programming, the members of the Arts Partnership also worked together to raise more than $600,000 for the Arts Partnership Fund, which on an annual basis provides resources to reduce rent costs for each organization, invest in the upkeep of the Ordway facility, and support co-presentations like the Sphinx Virtuosi and the Family Arts Blast. The mission of the Arts Partnership is to strengthen its member organizations in service to the community through growing collaboration and stewardship of its shared assets. The partners seek to expand access to the Ordway, to deepen the community's engagement with the art that is created and performed there, and to develop the resources to sustain this beloved community asset for generations to come. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 1 | The Board of Directors may designate an Executive Committee with such members and duties as may be specified by the Board of Directors from time to time. All Executive Committee members shall be Directors. The Executive Committee shall at all times be subject to the control and direction of the Board of Directors. One-third (1/3) of the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum. A majority of the votes cast shall govern in every matter voted upon. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 2 | Paula Patineau and Joe Tashjian have a family relationship. Jenny Lind Nilsson, Eric Nilsson, and Charles Ullery have a family relationship. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 4 | The organization amended its bylaws to add a Chair Emeritus position to the Board of Directors. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 6 | The organization's voting members consist of the members of the Board of Directors and the Governing Members of the organization. All persons and organizations that contribute or pledge at least $2,500 during the organization's most recent or current fiscal year may elect to be designated as a Governing Member. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7a | Each year the Governance Committee of the Board of Directors submits a list of recommended nominees for approval by the voting members at the Annual Meeting. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b | The return is reviewed by the Chief Financial Officer and Finance Committee prior to Board review. A copy of the Form 990 is provided to the Board and approved before it is filed. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c | All officers, directors, and key employees are required to sign a conflict of interest form annually. The Executive Assistant reviews the forms and forwards any items noted to the Governance Committee for review. The restrictions imposed on a person with a conflict are determined by the Governance Committee and would typically include a restriction from voting on matters related to the conflict. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 | For the President & Managing Director position and for the Artistic Director position, rebuttable presumptions data is compiled and reviewed, and the general parameters of each employment agreement is compared against this data before an employment agreement is finalized. Annually, review committees of board members undertake performance evaluations of the President/Managing Director and the Artistic Director and address their respective compensation. Other officers or key employees follow the regular organization-wide practices where compensation is reviewed periodically with industry salary survey data and is commensurate with the position and experience of the individual. Annual reviews are conducted that are linked with changes in compensation. If appropriate, rebuttable presumption data is reviewed and compared for the other officers or key employees. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 | The organization posts its audited financial statements on its website, and these statements are also available upon request. Governing documents and the conflict of interest policy are available to the public upon request and at the organization's discretion. |
| Form 990, Part XI, line 9: | Change in value of beneficial interest in charitable trust 58,772. Change in value of gift annuities -88,200. |
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