New York · Nonprofit
HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC
HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,511,858 to it, the largest being THE REINHART FOUNDATION ($690,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Hudson Opera House Inc does
Mission
Located in a landmark building that houses new york state's oldest surviving theater, hudson hall at the historic hudson opera house is driven by a civic and social purpose founded in the belief that culture is central to our shared heritage, identity, and future. Its mission is to inspire and promote the arts, and to play a pivotal role in the cultural and economic advancement of the city and the region. Hudson hall fulfills its mission by offering a year-round schedule of inclusive and accessible cultural and educational programs and maintaining its building, all of which serves, strengthens, and unites our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Main stage: a cultural beacon in the hudson valley, hudson hall offers a dynamic year-round schedule of music, theater, dance, film, and events such as the hudson jazz festival to connect its diverse community and strengthen the local and regional economy.
$905,280 spent$250,737 earned by the program65% of program spendingCommunity: as a flagship for its community, approximately 70% of hudson hall's programs are offered free of charge or greatly subsidized through its community arts program to ensure equitable access to the arts. Many of these activities have a focus on children and youth and include multi-session workshops in theater, music, dance, crafts, visual arts, and public exhibitions with local school districts. For older youth, hudson hall offers workforce development opportunities, including a live arts & media workforce development program in which teens and young adults are paid to receive five full days of training in general workforce readiness in live arts and media career skills. Activities for all ages include exhibitions by regional artists, talks and book events, film screenings, free performances for youth and families, and large-scale festivals such as winter walk, the city's largest event of the year and an economic driver showcasing hudson's vibrant creative community.
$352,596 spent25% of program spendingBuilding/rentals: hudson hall makes its venue available to other nonprofits and community organizations based on need and merit, and welcomes private and corporate rentals.
$131,169 spent$78,360 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,389,045.
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 2018 to 2019, from $12M to $10M (−16%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 79% · 2019 57% · 2020 18% · 2021 44% · 2022 22% · 2023 26% · 2024 5% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Tambra Dillon
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 16 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $108k → $258k.
8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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
HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 39% · 2019 24% · 2020 30% · 2021 89% · 2022 39% · 2023 21% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
44% of HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $463k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$70k
- Department of Commerce$5k
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 HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Hudson Opera House Manager LLC · disregarded
- Hudson Opera House Tenant LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC?
- HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,511,858 to it, the largest being THE REINHART FOUNDATION ($690,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,511,858 in grants to HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC?
- THE REINHART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $690,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 34 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