Minnesota · Nonprofit
AN OPERA THEATRE
AN OPERA THEATRE (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,000 to it, the largest being Twin Cities Opera Guild ($48,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $157k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $126k
- Net assets
- $172k
What An Opera Theatre does
Mission
To produce socially relevant works in order to break down the barriers of the classical art form and bring communities together.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
AOT's education program, Opera Immersion, took on a new education partner and began a residency at Gordon Parks High School in St. Paul. The students at this "last chance" school were very receptive to learning about theatrical production and worked together alongside our teaching artists to create a new production of a scene from Rigoletto by Verdi and a Zarzuela opera.
$24,273 spent22% of program spendingAOT produced an entirely new concept with our show, "opera underground." It was a sold out experience that was performed in various non-traditional venues across the twin cities and merged opera, metal, rap, and dance into an unforgettable soundscape experience.
$38,577 spent35% of program spendingFan-favorite DIVAS & DRAG returned to Minneapolis at The Jungle Theater. It was our largest cast yet, including both renowned local opera performers and musical theater performers. Sold out shows welcomed 60% new audience members, 40% of them had never experienced any form of opera before.
$41,300 spent38% of program spendingOther programmatic work to break down the barriers of the classical art form and bring communities together.
$4,750 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $108,900.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $96k to $152k (+58%).
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.
87% of AN OPERA THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Andrew Eggum
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $15k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 AN OPERA THEATRE’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
AN OPERA THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AN OPERA THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 86% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
25% of AN OPERA THEATRE's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
76% of AN OPERA THEATRE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
AN OPERA THEATRE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AN OPERA THEATRE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AN OPERA THEATRE: 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 AN OPERA THEATRE?
- AN OPERA THEATRE (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,000 to it, the largest being Twin Cities Opera Guild ($48,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AN OPERA THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $126,000 in grants to AN OPERA THEATRE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AN OPERA THEATRE?
- Twin Cities Opera Guild is the largest funder on record, with $48,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AN OPERA THEATRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 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