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ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY

ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY (Maryland) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,029,789 to it, the largest being NORMAN J FISHER AND DORIS FISHER FOUNDATION ($1,633,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$786k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$3.0M
Net assets
$1.4M
10/16 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Annapolis Opera Company does

Mission

The mission of the Annapolis Opera Company is to be a cultural touchstone for the community, which delights audiences with musical storytelling engages new audiences with diverse programming that inspires curiosity for opera and attracts emerging artists.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Its purpose is to organize and operate an opera company for the performance of opera and other stage performances and to give and promote entertainment, education, lectures, social affairs, and celebrations in connection with its pursuits as an opera company. In addition, the organization works to develop the audiences of the future through varied ticket pricing, free performances, educational programs, and special events. The organization offers its services to the state of maryland, the surrounding region and states with an emphasis on the communities in and around annapolis

    $701,543 spent$192,088 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $701,543.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($486k) Expenses 100 ($488k) Net assets 100 ($159k)2021 Revenue 143 ($696k) Expenses 72 ($351k) Net assets 332 ($527k)2022 Revenue 312 ($1.5M) Expenses 151 ($735k) Net assets 725 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 179 ($870k) Expenses 207 ($1.0M) Net assets 711 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 234 ($1.1M) Expenses 189 ($923k) Net assets 922 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 162 ($786k) Expenses 192 ($936k) Net assets 887 ($1.4M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (162)Expenses (192)Net assets (887)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $528k to $1.2M (+119%).

$186k
$528k
$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.5M
$1.4M
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 15% · 2021 23% · 2022 16% · 2023 25% · 2024 9% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

72% of ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’20
$345k
’21
$784k
’22
−$141k
’23
$214k
’24
−$149k
’25
3.9
months of
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed192019191719
Joined·+5+1+4+3+8
No longer listed·42456
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $102k → $134k.

3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY’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

ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

34% 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 ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY.

54%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 40% · 2019 39% · 2020 78% · 2021 87% · 2022 32% · 2023 60% — growing more concentrated.

“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

44% of ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

98% of ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

NH
NY
MD
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $675k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 20%Fundraising 5%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY?
ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY (Maryland) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,029,789 to it, the largest being NORMAN J FISHER AND DORIS FISHER FOUNDATION ($1,633,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $3,029,789 in grants to ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY?
NORMAN J FISHER AND DORIS FISHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,633,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing