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BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE

BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,115,299 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($679,676). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.6M
Revenue FY2025
14
Funders on record
$1.1M
Grants received
$884k
Net assets
4/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%

Against its field

BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE is better cushioned than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · below the median
Months of reserve5.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($603k)2018 Revenue 123 ($1.6M) Expenses 138 ($1.5M) Net assets 114 ($687k)2019 Revenue 99 ($1.3M) Expenses 113 ($1.2M) Net assets 121 ($728k)2020 Revenue 76 ($995k) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 102 ($615k)2021 Revenue 72 ($934k) Expenses 67 ($742k) Net assets 134 ($808k)2022 Revenue 102 ($1.3M) Expenses 101 ($1.1M) Net assets 169 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 132 ($1.7M) Expenses 166 ($1.8M) Net assets 151 ($912k)2024 Revenue 136 ($1.8M) Expenses 153 ($1.7M) Net assets 164 ($988k)2025 Revenue 121 ($1.6M) Expenses 152 ($1.7M) Net assets 147 ($884k)
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Revenue (121)Expenses (152)Net assets (147)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 74% · 2018 69% · 2019 81% · 2020 75% · 2021 93% · 2022 72% · 2023 75% · 2024 75% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

87% of BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$202k
17
$84k
18
$41k
19
$112k
20
$192k
21
$214k
22
$110k
23
$77k
24
$109k
25
5.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $361k → $14k.

5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)66% 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 BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 14 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

BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

86% 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 BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE.

61%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 88% · 2019 77% · 2020 80% · 2021 45% · 2022 71% · 2023 100%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

33% of BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

66% of BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE'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 $376k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.

WA
NY
CA

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $740k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 22%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited 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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE?
BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,115,299 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($679,676). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,115,299 in grants to BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE?
THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $679,676 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE 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.

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 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing