Kansas · Nonprofit
BROWN GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC
BROWN GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC (Kansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,186 to it, the largest being MARIAN D COOK FOUNDATION CO CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK ($285,932). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $191k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $436k
- Net assets
- $65k
What Brown Grand Opera House Inc does
Mission
Promotion of cultural arts
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Booking of artists and fees for advertising to promote the cultural arts
$131,472 spent$41,679 earned by the program90% of program spendingPreservation of a historical building recognized by the state of kansas as a state historical site
$14,558 spent10% of program spendingOperation of the building as a historical site open to the public 5 of 5 staffed days
$80 spent$350 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $146,110.
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 2022 to 2023, from $98k to $46k (−53%).
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: 2020 60% · 2021 54% · 2022 8% · 2023 8% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of BROWN GRAND OPERA HOUSE 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. 2 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 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $47k → $48k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 BROWN GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
BROWN GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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
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 BROWN GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 82% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 78% · 2022 85% · 2023 68% — 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
100% of BROWN GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k 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
BROWN GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC runs a healthier operating margin 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 BROWN GRAND OPERA HOUSE 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 BROWN GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC?
- BROWN GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC (Kansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,186 to it, the largest being MARIAN D COOK FOUNDATION CO CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK ($285,932). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROWN GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $436,186 in grants to BROWN GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROWN GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC?
- MARIAN D COOK FOUNDATION CO CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK is the largest funder on record, with $285,932 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROWN GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 5 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