Texas · Nonprofit
AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA
AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA (Texas) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,219,005 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($3,102,831). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $8.2M
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What Austin Lyric Opera does
Mission
Austin opera leverages the multidisciplinary, collaborative, and transcendent power of opera to increase the quality of life for our diverse community by: - bringing together local and national artists to create outstanding, meaningful operatic performances and experiences. - partnering with local school and community groups to provide robust, responsive educational programs that inspire and engage. - leading the development of new, innovative strategies that increase the scope and impact of the operatic medium in austin and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide austin and the greater central texas community with the production of operatic & music theatre performances for the cultural & educational enrichment of austin.
$2,184,495 spent$1,034,024 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,184,495.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.8M to $12M (+206%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 6% · 2019 5% · 2020 7% · 2021 10% · 2022 23% · 2023 5% · 2024 4% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Burridge Anne M
General director & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $407k → $1.1M.
14 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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
AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 42% · 2019 24% · 2020 30% · 2021 28% · 2022 42% · 2023 47% — 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
58% of AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
50% of AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.1M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $151k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$151k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Austin Lyric Opera Endowment Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA: 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 AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA?
- AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA (Texas) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,219,005 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($3,102,831). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $8,219,005 in grants to AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA?
- AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,102,831 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 37 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