Maryland · Nonprofit
BEL CANTANTI OPERA COMPANY
BEL CANTANTI OPERA COMPANY (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $224,651 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($209,504). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $171k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $225k
- Net assets
- $172k
What Bel Cantanti Opera Company does
Mission
An opera company whose mission is to support the development of young opera singers through performance opportunities and to bring those performances to the community at reasonable ticket prices.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
A February 2025 Johann Strauss program performed at Asbury Methodist Village and at the Bender JCC; a May 2025 Romeo and Juliet production at the Bender JCC; September 2025 performances of two Ravel operas LEnfant et les Sortileges and LHeure Espagnole at the Bethesda Writers Center; November 2025 programs featuring the work of Romanian composer Nicolae Bretan at the Chevy Chase Club and at St. Dunstans Church and a December 2025 holiday Snow Queen production at the Bethesda Writers Center
$112,686 spentof which $50,931 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $112,686.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $114k to $172k (+51%).
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.
74% of BEL CANTANTI OPERA COMPANY’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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Tom O'Grady
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $28k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 BEL CANTANTI 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
BEL CANTANTI OPERA COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 BEL CANTANTI OPERA COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 80% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
98% of BEL CANTANTI OPERA COMPANY'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maryland funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $220k 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.
Against its field
BEL CANTANTI OPERA COMPANY runs a healthier operating margin 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 BEL CANTANTI OPERA COMPANY
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.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BEL CANTANTI OPERA COMPANY?
- BEL CANTANTI OPERA COMPANY (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $224,651 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($209,504). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BEL CANTANTI OPERA COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $224,651 in grants to BEL CANTANTI OPERA COMPANY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEL CANTANTI OPERA COMPANY?
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER is the largest funder on record, with $209,504 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEL CANTANTI 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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