Texas · Nonprofit
Houston Grand Opera Guild Inc
Houston Grand Opera Guild Inc (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,330 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($52,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $68k
What Houston Grand Opera Guild Inc does
Mission
The Houston Grand Opera Guild provides volunteers to the Houston Grand Opera Association to support its programming in the Houston, TX community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Houston Grand Opera Guild provides volunteers to support the Sarah and Ernest Butler HGO Studio. Guild members volunteer at HGO's Concert of Arias, its annual competition for young singers. This event helps identify talented young singers who may join the Butler HGO Studio program. Guild volunteers act as buddies to Butler Studio participants and provide hospitality services (underwritten by the Guild). The Houston Grand Opera Guild provides volunteers to support HGO's Rehearsal Planning and Artist Services department. Guild members volunteer to assist with artist errands, transportation, and hospitality. The Guild provides opening night gifts and green room hospitality, both underwritten by the Guild.
$5,952 spentof which $5,952 as grants100% of program spendingThe Houston Grand Opera Guild operates a boutique in the Wortham Theater Center during Houston Grand Opera's season. The boutique promotes opera and the HGO brand and enhances the HGO patron experience.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,952.
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 $181k to $103k (−43%).
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.
100% of Houston Grand Opera Guild Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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 $1k → $25k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 Houston Grand Opera Guild 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
Houston Grand Opera Guild Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
94% 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 Houston Grand Opera Guild Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2019 100% · 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
94% of Houston Grand Opera Guild Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k 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
Houston Grand Opera Guild Inc's revenue fell 74% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Houston Grand Opera Guild 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
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 Houston Grand Opera Guild Inc?
- Houston Grand Opera Guild Inc (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,330 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($52,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Houston Grand Opera Guild Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $55,330 in grants to Houston Grand Opera Guild Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Houston Grand Opera Guild Inc?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $52,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Houston Grand Opera Guild Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 4 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