Maryland · Nonprofit
BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC
BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC (Maryland) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $365,225 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM G BAKER JR MEMORIAL FUND ($149,195). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $414k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $365k
- Net assets
- $292k
What Baltimore Concert Opera Inc does
Mission
Opera baltimore creates a thrilling, meaningful shared experience between our audience and our artists. Our streamlined format focuses on the primary element of opera: the unamplified human voice. Featuring top flight professional opera singers and projected english translations in our intimate up close environment, our performances make the complex operatic art form immediately accessible and engaging.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Annual programming typically includes two full operas in concert, one fully staged opera, three audience-building concerts, as well as numerous free outreach and education events.
$409,708 spent$180,117 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $409,708.
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 $446k to $631k (+41%).
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 6% · 2018 5% · 2019 8% · 2020 13% · 2021 62% · 2022 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC’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. 4 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $12k → $72k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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
BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% 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
38% 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 BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 84% · 2019 58% · 2020 48% · 2021 74% · 2022 77% · 2023 40% — 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
50% of BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC has grown faster than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA 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 BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC?
- BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC (Maryland) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $365,225 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM G BAKER JR MEMORIAL FUND ($149,195). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $365,225 in grants to BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC?
- THE WILLIAM G BAKER JR MEMORIAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $149,195 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALTIMORE CONCERT OPERA INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing