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Twin Cities Opera Guild

Grants are given for opera and music education programs for children.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$249k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $54,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $103,750 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $49,750 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$656k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Opera for the Young$12,000
An Opera Theater$11,000
Minnesota Opera$10,000
Minnesota Sinfonia$8,000
ComMusication$8,000
Laurel School of Music$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%St Croix Valley Opera: $10k → 6%Young Artists Academy: $8k → 6%Minnesota Opera: $10k → 11%ComMusication: $8k → 14%Opera for the Young: $12k → 10%Fargo Moorehead Opers: $15k → 12%St Croix Valley Opera: $6k → 6%Minnesota Sinfonia: $8k → 11%ComMusication: $7k → 14%Opera for the Young: $12k → 10%Fargo Moorehead Opera: $15k → 12%MN Sinfonia: $8k → 11%Laurel School of Music: $5k → 14%Opera for the Young: $12k → 10%Fargo-Moorhead Opera: $8k → 12%Minnesota Sinfonia: $5k → 11%Opera for the Young: $12k → 10%Fargo-Morehead Opera: $6k → 12%Imaginality Opera: $8k → 11%Opera for the Young: $10k → 10%Arbeit Opera Theatre: $10k → 11%An Opera Theatre: $13k → 11%An Opera Theater: $11k → 11%An Opera Theatre: $10k → 11%Arbeit Opera Theatre: $5k → 11%Lundstrom Center for the Arts: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$213k · 6 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$213k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • OF
    Opera for the Young Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +37%
  • AO
    AN OPERA THEATRE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +229%
  • FO
    FARGO-MOORHEAD OPERA COMPANY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • IO
    IMAGINALITY OPERA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • ES
    EPIPHANY STUDIO PRODUCTIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +21%
  • LC
    LUNDSTRUM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA LUNDSTRUM PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -66%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Foundation for Modern Opera
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2
Chamber Opera of Chicago
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3
Opera Reading Project

Opera Reading Project (ORP) was established in 2018 to provide financially accessible, professional-quality arts education opportunities for Minnesotans to engage in opera. We offer both auditioned and non-auditioned, affordable, and…

Arts & Culture
4
Maryland Lyric Opera
Arts & Culture
5
Operativo Houston

Providing paid opportunities for Houston based singers.

Arts & Culture
6
Oratorio Society of Minnesota

Performance and Promotion of Choral Music

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7
Bach Society of Minnesota

The mission of bach society of minnesota is to build a diverse community of music lovers who perform, promote, and appreciate the music of j.s. bach and those he inspired.

Arts & Culture
8
Artaria

Artaria centers on string quartet performance and education in minnesota. it is committed to presenting inspiring performances, to mentoring string players of all ages, and to illuminate the world's great repertoire of chamber music to a…

Arts & Culture
9
Opera Nova

Produce Opera for Children and to introduce the arts to young adults

Philanthropy
10
Lyric Opera of the North

Present opera performances in duluth, minnesota and bring opera to schools in minnesota and wisconsin.

Arts & Culture
11
Hopera

Hopera's mission is to produce live musical performances in unique Houston Area spaces that focus on and empower Houston Area artists. Our Pint-Sized Performance concert series empowers local musicians to create original programs that are…

Arts & Culture
12
Opera Company of Middlebury Inc

The mission of the Opera Company of Middlebury (OCM) is to bring professional-level, quality live opera productions and experiences to our region. We also maintain a robust educational program for emerging professionals and teen singers…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Minnesota Sinfonia; the most unlike its peers is An Opera Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Opera for the Young Inc: $70,000 · Arts & CultureOpera for the Young IncAN OPERA THEATRE: $48,500 · Arts & CultureAN OPERA THEATREFARGO-MOORHEAD OPERA COMPANY: $43,435 · Arts & CultureFARGO-MOORHEAD OPERA COMPANYFRIENDS OF THE MINNESOTA SINFONIA: $20,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE MINNESOTA SINFONIAOPERATUNITY THEATRE: $16,000 · Arts & CultureOPERATUNITY THEATRECOMMUSICATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUSICATIONThe Minnesota Opera: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $17,500 · Arts & Culture+3 moreIMAGINALITY OPERA INC: $8,000 · Other
Arts & Culture$240,935Other$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOpera for the Young Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetAN OPERA THEATRE: $48,500 over 5y, 21% of budgetFARGO-MOORHEAD OPERA COMPANY: $43,435 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MINNESOTA SINFONIA: $20,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetOPERATUNITY THEATRE: $16,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCOMMUSICATION: $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetThe Minnesota Opera: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEPIPHANY STUDIO PRODUCTIONS: $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ST PAUL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUNDSTRUM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA LUNDSTRUM PERFORMING ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Anna M Heilmaier Char…Hrk FoundationMightycause Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Anna M Heilmaier Charitable FdnMN17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Twin Cities Opera Guild funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Twin Cities Opera Guild. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Twin Cities Opera Guild?

    Find your warmest path to Twin Cities Opera Guild through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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