Alaska · Nonprofit
HOMER OPUS
HOMER OPUS (Alaska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,000 to it, the largest being THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ($61,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $109k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $164k
- Net assets
- $98k
What Homer Opus does
Mission
Homer Opus is a nonprofit organization that delivers string-based music programs to youth ages kindergarten through 12th grade, and adults, in homer, alaska. Our mission is to build a stronger community by creating music together, and to create better learners and citizens through instrumental instruction and performance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
There are three in-school programs offering free instruction to all k- 2 students. In homer, paul banks preludes and fireweed frescoes, and in anchor point, chapman's eagle ensemble. These programs use violin instruction to build brain capacity and executive function skills. The after-school program, homer youth string orchestra club (hysoc) offers a fee-based opportunity for grades 3-12 students that wish to gain musicianship skills. Hysoc also sponsors an adult orchestra that allows more advanced students the opportunity to learn from and perform with adult and professional players. While the focus of instruction differs slightly in the in-school and the after-school programs, they are run in a coordinated manner and several times a year perform together. Various fundraising events target each school's parent group, but the funds are not retained for the exclusive use of that school.
$3,550 spent3% of program spendingHomer Opus is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in homer, ak with a mission to build learning skills and community cohesiveness by teaching children orchestral string instruments and by performing. Homer Opus serves the southern kenai peninsula and has in-school programs in paul banks elementary, fireweed charter, and chapman elementary schools for k-2 children. We also offer an after-school youth orchestra for older students and adults. Our in-school program reaches over 240 youth using violin instruction to develop the kinds of learning skills that brain research show string instruction can provide. These skills are known a executive function skills and include such things as attention focus, perseverance, planning, multi-tasking, and impulse control - things that improve children's long-term academia and life success. Homer Opus's after school orchestral program currrently serves about 35 and develops musical and orchestral skills and gives them a sense of agency and belonging. Our adult ensemble of about 20 members focuses on mentoring our youth participants.
Orchestral instruction and performance opportunities for kindergarten through adult.
All other programs.
$114,953 spent97% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $118,503.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $122k to $109k (−11%).
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.
94% of HOMER OPUS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $35k → $31k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 HOMER OPUS’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
HOMER OPUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 HOMER OPUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 71% · 2023 68% — 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
HOMER OPUS draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
HOMER OPUS has grown faster than half 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 HOMER OPUS
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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOMER OPUS?
- HOMER OPUS (Alaska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,000 to it, the largest being THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ($61,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOMER OPUS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $164,000 in grants to HOMER OPUS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOMER OPUS?
- THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $61,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOMER OPUS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 2022–2025), 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