California · Nonprofit
AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE INC
AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,061 to it, the largest being RDK FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $264k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $157k
What Amargosa Opera House Inc does
Mission
Cultural advancement, cultural performances and conservation of national historical monument.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational and historical hospitality experience unique to no other:- encompass the specific mission of amargosa opera house, inc. Within the hospitality branch of foundation.- accomplish corporate mission with exposure due to worldwide mediaattention and proximity to death valley national park withover 1.3 million visitors per year.
$170,313 spent$213,003 earned by the program90% of program spendingLegacy and works of american treasure & amargosa opera house, inc. Founder marta becket: - stay in line with the specific mission she outlined for her foundation.- curating and displaying her works through various methods such as museums, opera house activities and performances, prints, books, dvds, etc.- exposing, educating and inspiring the public, students and artists.
$9,553 spent$11,947 earned by the program5% of program spendingPreserving works of the past: - highlight artists, dancers, performers, musicians and composers of the past. - highlight music, dance and art of the past.- exposing, education and inspiring the public, students and artists.
$9,553 spent$11,947 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $189,419.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $200k to $393k (+96%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 48% · 2022 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $21.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE INC's revenue fell 43% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE INC
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE INC?
- AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,061 to it, the largest being RDK FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $56,061 in grants to AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE INC?
- RDK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMARGOSA OPERA HOUSE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing