Connecticut · Nonprofit
CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC
CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,500 to it, the largest being Anderson-Paffard Foundation Inc ($32,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $2k
What Connecticut Lyric Opera Inc does
Mission
Performance of opera productions
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Performances of the opera Amistad by Anthiny Davis
$75,000 spentof which $72,500 as grants97% of program spendingLove Long and Longing - recital by Anastasia Rege
$2,500 spent3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $77,500.
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 $24k to $24k (−2%).
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.
95% of CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $11k.
From the IRS filings of CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC’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
CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 64% · 2021 58% · 2022 73% · 2023 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
93% of CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $109k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$109k
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 CONNECTICUT LYRIC 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONNECTICUT LYRIC 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 CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC?
- CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,500 to it, the largest being Anderson-Paffard Foundation Inc ($32,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $67,500 in grants to CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC?
- Anderson-Paffard Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $32,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 6 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