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Iowa · Nonprofit
DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC (Iowa) is funded by 57 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $21,292,275 in grants to it, the largest being DES MOINES METRO OPERA FOUNDATION INC ($11,706,014). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,251 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,251 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
85% of DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
$438k from 10 funders in 2025, up from $717k and 14 in 2017.
11 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 funders by total. Association, not causation.
DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 75%; 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: 2017 52% · 2018 43% · 2019 46% · 2020 53% · 2021 60% · 2022 67% · 2023 62% · 2024 54% · 2025 54% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
57% of DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% give in more than one year at all.
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.
DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC is locally rooted: 93% of its grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 57 funders put you typical 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.
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $327k on record.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
83% of spending goes to programs.
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Part of a family of 1 related entity
Every figure is 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 57funders 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. view filing