Womens Symphony League of Austin
Womens Symphony League of Austin provides service and financial support for The Austin Symphony Orchestra and its programs, and offers educational opportunities for children and the community to further develop an appreciation of music.
Key facts about Womens Symphony League of Austin
In short: Womens Symphony League of Austin gave $274K across 1 grant in 2025 (avg $274K), mostly in Texas. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- EIN
- 74-1882139
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025
- Annual giving (2025)
- $273,785
- Grants made (2025)
- 1
- Average grant
- $273,785
- Median grant
- $273,785
- Total assets
- $559,482
- Primary geography
- Texas (100% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026.
Financial Overview
From 2025 IRS Form 990 · View filing
Total Assets
$559K
-3.0% YoY
Annual Giving
$274K
-26.3% YoY
Grant Count
1
+0.0% YoY
Avg Grant Size
$274K
-26.3% YoY
How Womens Symphony League of Austin gives
- Giving fell 36% from 2022 to 2025. Method
From the foundation's IRS Form 990 filings. Methodology.
About Womens Symphony League of Austin
Based on IRS filings
Womens Symphony League of Austin is a public charity focused on Arts, Culture & Humanities, based in Austin, TX. IRS filing data is available from 2019 through 2025. As of 2025, the organization holds $559K in total assets. In 2025, it awarded 1 grant totaling $274K. Net investment income was $9K.
Focus Areas
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Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
Grant Distribution by State
Share of all 1 itemized 2025 grant dollars.
States
Cities
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $202K (2021) to $425K (2022). In 2025 it made 1 grant totaling $274K.
Grant Insights
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top 1 recipients in 2025
The largest 2025 recipient was The Austin Symphony Orchestra ($274K).
Grant Size Distribution
5 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was in the $250–500K range: 4 grants of 5 (80%).
Giving History
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| The Austin Symphony Orchestra Austin, TX | General support | $273,785 |
Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Assets | $559,482 | $576,512 | $585,651 |
| Revenue | $359,635 | $420,389 | $452,655 |
| Expenses | $336,289 | $440,092 | $411,076 |
| Net Investment Income | $8,803 | $6,609 | $1,807 |
Data update history
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS April 4, 2020)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS May 14, 2026)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2024
Leadership & Key People
Officers and directors from IRS filings
Womens Symphony League of Austin is led by Stacey McLeod Brewer, President since 2025 (on filings since 2019); none of the 76 officers listed in 2025 report compensation.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Stacey McLeod Brewer
President
Vice President Bus Affairs → President-Elect, 2024
President-Elect → President, 2025
On filings since 2019
20 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Beth Grimm
Director
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Celeste Hubert
Director
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Christy Werner
Director
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Clair Ryan
Director
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Dede Woodman
Director
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Emily Avila
Director
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jennifer Bell
Director
President → Past President, 2023
Past President → Director, 2024
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Karen Gernstein
Director
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Mary Ellen Borgelt
Director
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Molly Benson
Director
President → Past President, 2020
Past President → Director, 2023
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Shannon Meroney
Director
Vice President Marketing → Parliamentarian, 2021
Parliamentarian → Director, 2025
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Amy Corbett
Director
Treasurer → Director, 2021
On filings since 2020
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Holli Hill
Director
On filings since 2020
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jill Powell
Director
On filings since 2020
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Kelly Mahmoud
Director
Vice President Finance Development Elect → Vice President Finance Development, 2024
Vice President Finance Development → Director, 2025
On filings since 2020
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Lindsey Parham
Director
On filings since 2020
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Martha Bell Liner
Director
On filings since 2020
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Olivia Derr
Director
Director → Vice President Technology, 2021
Vice President Technology → Director, 2023
On filings since 2020
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Andrea Jacobs
Director
Director → Vice President Marketing, 2023
Vice President Marketing → Director, 2025
On filings since 2021
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Carrie Semple
Director
On filings since 2021
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Katie Kaighin
Director
President → Past President, 2024
Past President → Director, 2025
On filings since 2021
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Mary Padgett
Director
On filings since 2021
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Megan Haywood
Director
Vice President Bus Affairs → Vice President Education, 2023
Vice President Education → Director, 2025
On filings since 2021
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Tricia Moose
Director
Vice President Committee Affairs → Vice President Bus Affairs, 2024
Vice President Bus Affairs → Director, 2025
On filings since 2021
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Amanda Powell
Director
On filings since 2022
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Cat Mattingly
Director
On filings since 2022
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Celeste Embrey
Director
On filings since 2022
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Crystal Dutton
Director
On filings since 2022
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Sheridan Butler Binford
Director
Vice President Marketing → Director, 2025
On filings since 2022
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Stephanie Wilson
Director
On filings since 2022
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Tillery Castillo
Director
On filings since 2022
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Allison Edwards
Director
On filings since 2023
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Caron Hutchison
Director
On filings since 2023
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Karen Blackburn
Director
On filings since 2023
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Karin Foster
Director
On filings since 2023
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Paige Richards
Director
On filings since 2023
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Sullie Stephens
Director
On filings since 2023
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Allison Shaw
Director
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Amy Reinarz
Director
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Charlotte Blakemore
Director
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Courtney Edwards
Director
Vice President Marketing → Director, 2025
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Geri Candow
Director
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jane Stein
Director
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jeani Smith
Director
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jeanie Mayfield
Director
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Lauren Taylor
Director
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Mary Bell Love
Director
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Stephanie Walden
Director
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Amy Hajdu
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Ashley Lewis
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Brittany Moore
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Brooke Morgan
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Eldarose Cardenas
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Elizabeth Doughtie
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Julie Dye
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Kacy Dolce
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Leslie Anderson
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Nicole Orla
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Sarah Heidler
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Tiffany Williams
Director
New on the 2025 filing
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Christian Wells
Vice President Finance Development
Director → Vice President Finance Development Elect, 2024
Vice President Finance Development Elect → Vice President Finance Development, 2025
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Julia Null
Vice President Finance Development Elect
Vice President Marketing → Director, 2023
Director → Vice President Finance Development Elect, 2025
On filings since 2020
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Meredith Presley Wood
Vice President Committee Affairs
Director → Vice President Committee Affairs, 2025
On filings since 2020
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Araminta Sellers
Past President
President-Elect → President, 2024
President → Past President, 2025
On filings since 2021
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Belen Benavides
Vice President Membership
Vice President Technology → Vice President Member Elect, 2024
Vice President Member Elect → Vice President Membership, 2025
On filings since 2021
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Ruth Adams
Rec Secretary
Director → Rec Secretary, 2022
On filings since 2021
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Ashley Hyten Reischman
President-Elect
Treasurer-Elect → Treasurer, 2024
Treasurer → President-Elect, 2025
On filings since 2023
15 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Katie Comer
Vice President Tech Elect
Director → Vice President Tech Elect, 2025
On filings since 2023
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Michelle Lupton
Treasurer-Elect
Vice President Tech Elect → Vice President Technology, 2024
Vice President Technology → Treasurer-Elect, 2025
On filings since 2023
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Allison Smith
Vice President Education
Director → Vice President Education, 2025
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Anne Lasseigne Tiedt
Vice President Bus Affairs
Director → Vice President Bus Affairs, 2025
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Lauryn Robison
Vice President Technology
Vice President Tech Elect → Vice President Technology, 2025
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Melanie Mahaffey
Vice President Marketing
Director → Vice President Marketing, 2025
On filings since 2024
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Sara Hyten
Treasurer
Treasurer-Elect → Treasurer, 2025
On filings since 2024
10 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Ellen Williams
Parliamentarian
New on the 2025 filing
2 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (99)
- Former: Annette Graves (2019–2024) — Parliamentarian
- Former: Jene Bearse (2019–2024) — Director
- Former: Julie Baselice (2019–2024) — Director
- Former: Leslie Perkins (2020–2024) — Director
- Former: Regina Munson (2020–2024) — Vice President Committee Affairs
- Former: Alexis Simon Moore (2021–2024) — Director
- Former: Mildred Hammond (2022–2024) — Director
- Former: Natalie Hudson (2022–2024) — Vice President Membership
- Former: Mary-Ellen King (2023–2024) — Director
- Former: Robin Miller (2023–2024) — Vice President Tech Elect
- Former: Carly Pearson (2024) — Director
- Former: Fami Eaton (2024) — Director
- Former: Wendy Lary (2024) — Rec Secretary
- Former: Weston Lipscomb (2024) — Director
- Former: Amanda Pettitt (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Carrie Conner (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Christy Merritt (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Karey Nalle Oddo (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Kerry Ugarte (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Megan Helmbrecht (2019–2023) — Vice President Finance Development
- Former: Melissa Billman (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Shannon Owen (2019–2023) — Parliamentarian
- Former: Ashley Nwonuma (2020–2023) — Director
- Former: Susan Roth (2020–2023) — Director
- Former: Leslie Pardue (2021–2023) — Director
- Former: Tiffiny Britton (2021–2023) — Treasurer
- Former: Tiffany Galligan (2022–2023) — Director
- Former: Yoli Arriaga (2022–2023) — Director
- Former: Aubrey Williamson (2023) — Director
- Former: Brooke Grabato (2023) — Director
- Former: Carol Evanicky (2023) — Director
- Former: Ilissa Nolan (2023) — Director
- Former: Kam McCoy (2023) — Director
- Former: Laura Lee Daigle (2023) — Director
- Former: Marissa Hogan (2023) — Director
- Former: Rebecca Young (2023) — Director
- Former: Stephanie Hartman (2023) — Director
- Former: Cecily Rodman (2019–2022) — Director
- Former: Kelly Reynolds (2019–2022) — Director
- Former: Krystin Johnson (2019–2022) — Parliamentarian
- Former: Nancy Buchsbaum (2019–2022) — Director
- Former: Natalie Brown (2019–2022) — Director
- Former: Sinem Szygenda (2019–2022) — Director
- Former: Tara Akins (2020–2022) — Director
- Former: Dana Fisher (2021–2022) — Director
- Former: Eva Gayle Gibbs (2021–2022) — Director
- Former: Sandy Alcala (2021–2022) — Director
- Former: Stacy Reed (2021–2022) — Director
- Former: Susie Allen (2021–2022) — Director
- Former: Trish McConnico (2021–2022) — Director
- Former: Jennifer Owens (2022) — Director
- Former: Jolie Cypert (2022) — Director
- Former: Kristin Campbell (2022) — Director
- Former: Susan Gordon (2022) — Director
- Former: Elizabeth Rose (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Erin Geisler (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Jennifer Johnson (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Jodi Holland (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Lauree Moffett (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Lisa Irvin (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Lisa Tully (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Sarah Cox (2019–2021) — Vice President Membership
- Former: Anne-Marie Cancienne (2020–2021) — Rec Secretary
- Former: Becky King (2020–2021) — Director
- Former: Ellen Burt (2020–2021) — Director
- Former: Beth Hannan (2021) — Director
- Former: Catherine Manley (2021) — Director
- Former: Melanie Miles Walters (2021) — Director
- Former: Rebecca Gindele (2021) — Director
- Former: Suzy Whittenton (2021) — Director
- Former: Carole Dale (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Karen Temborius (2019–2020) — Vice President Membership
- Former: Kim Day (2019–2020) — Vice President Finance Development
- Former: Lauren Fairbank (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Linda Gladden (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Mary Kaye Wheat (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Melanie Hirschfeld (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Valerie Caldwell (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Jennifer Rountree (2020) — Director
- Former: Kimberly Schultz (2020) — Director
- Former: Lesley Lorenz (2020) — Director
- Former: Linda van Bavel (2020) — Director
- Former: Michelle Gooch (2020) — Director
- Former: Nickey Duewall (2020) — Director
- Former: Beth Sherwood (2019) — Director
- Former: Cynthia Harris (2019) — Director
- Former: Eledith Falk (2019) — Past President
- Former: Hollis Matheney (2019) — Director
- Former: Kara Belew (2019) — Treasurer-Elect
- Former: Kathryn Hillhouse (2019) — Vice President Marketing
- Former: Kay Bonner (2019) — Director
- Former: Mary Dickerson (2019) — Director
- Former: Michele Zurovec (2019) — Director
- Former: Nancy Garrison (2019) — Director
- Former: Nancy Young (2019) — Director
- Former: Nina Helburn (2019) — Director
- Former: Susan Douglas (2019) — Director
- Former: Susan Lindley (2019) — Director
- Former: Susanne Tetzlaff (2019) — Director
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Frequently asked questions about Womens Symphony League of Austin
How much does Womens Symphony League of Austin give each year?
Womens Symphony League of Austin gave $274K across 1 grant in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $372K across 1 grant.
How large is Womens Symphony League of Austin?
Womens Symphony League of Austin reported $559K in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $360K.
What is Womens Symphony League of Austin?
Womens Symphony League of Austin is a public charity focused on Arts, Culture & Humanities, based in Austin, TX. It holds $559K in total assets as of 2025.
Where does Womens Symphony League of Austin operate?
Womens Symphony League of Austin has awarded grants in Texas.
What is Womens Symphony League of Austin's EIN?
Womens Symphony League of Austin's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 74-1882139. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.
Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings.
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