Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
DELAWARE VALLEY LYRIC OPERA GUILD
DELAWARE VALLEY LYRIC OPERA GUILD (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,402 to it, the largest being THE PRESSER FOUNDATION ($4,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Delaware Valley Lyric Opera Guild does
Mission
Delaware Valley Lyric Opera Guild's mission is to offer a stepping stone for singers in the greater philadelphia area, providing training and education through exposure to all facets of operatic production and performance opportunities in a variety of operas. Additionally, Delaware Valley Lyric Opera Guild is committed to making opera an affordable experience for all to enjoy. The primary focus of Delaware Valley Lyric Opera Guild is its summer festival: three operatic productions in june, july and august. Since its founding in 1979, the company has createdhundreds of performance opportunities and presented over 100 fully staged operas and countless concerts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To convey the love and language of opera to contemporary and new generations and to provide performance and production opportunities and experiences for artistic talents, be they amateur or professional.
$43,721 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,721.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $11k to $7k (−42%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $74 → $79.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 DELAWARE VALLEY LYRIC OPERA GUILD’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
DELAWARE VALLEY LYRIC OPERA GUILD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 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
100% of DELAWARE VALLEY LYRIC OPERA GUILD's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $402 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like DELAWARE VALLEY LYRIC OPERA GUILD
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DELAWARE VALLEY LYRIC OPERA GUILD: 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 DELAWARE VALLEY LYRIC OPERA GUILD?
- DELAWARE VALLEY LYRIC OPERA GUILD (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,402 to it, the largest being THE PRESSER FOUNDATION ($4,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DELAWARE VALLEY LYRIC OPERA GUILD have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $4,402 in grants to DELAWARE VALLEY LYRIC OPERA GUILD, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE VALLEY LYRIC OPERA GUILD?
- THE PRESSER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DELAWARE VALLEY LYRIC OPERA GUILD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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