Minnesota · Public charity
Twin Cities Opera Guild
Grants are given for opera and music education programs for children. In 2025 TCOG programs served 15000 children
- $104k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $54k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $656k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Twin Cities Opera Guild funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $54k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $56k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $66k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $22k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $28k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $23k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opera for the Young Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 7% |
| An Opera Theatre | $48,500 | 5 | 21% |
| Fargo-Moorhead Opera Company | $43,435 | 4 | 3% |
| Friends of the Minnesota Sinfonia | $20,500 | 3 | 17% |
| Operatunity Theatre | $16,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Commusication | $15,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Minnesota Opera | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Imaginality Opera Inc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Epiphany Studio Productions | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| The St Paul Conservatory of Music | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opera for the Young Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 7% |
| An Opera Theatre | $48,500 | 5 | 21% |
| Fargo-Moorhead Opera Company | $43,435 | 4 | 3% |
| Friends of the Minnesota Sinfonia | $20,500 | 3 | 17% |
| Operatunity Theatre | $16,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Commusication | $15,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Minnesota Opera | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Imaginality Opera Inc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Epiphany Studio Productions | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| The St Paul Conservatory of Music | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lundstrum Center for the Performing Arts Dba Lundstrum Performing Arts | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Twin Cities Opera Guild supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Anna M Heilmaier Charitable Fdn · Hrk Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Twin Cities Opera Guild
- How much does Twin Cities Opera Guild give?
- Twin Cities Opera Guild reported 6 itemized grants totaling $54,000, out of $103,750 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Twin Cities Opera Guild fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
- Who are Twin Cities Opera Guild's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Opera for the Young Inc ($70k), An Opera Theatre ($49k), Fargo-Moorhead Opera Company ($43k).
- Does Twin Cities Opera Guild fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Twin Cities Opera Guild?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Anna M Heilmaier Charitable Fdn, Hrk Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Twin Cities Opera Guild based?
- Twin Cities Opera Guild is based in MN.
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