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Indianapolis Opera Company Foundation Inc

Indianapolis Opera Company Foundation Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,811 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($80,550). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$206k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$96k
Net assets
$2.0M
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What Indianapolis Opera Company Foundation Inc does

Mission

The Indianapolis Opera Company Foundations mission is to perpetuate the Indiana Opera Company (Indianapolis Opera) and to financially support the artistic, educational, and cultural claims of the Opera.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Indianapolis Opera Company Foundations mission is to perpetuate the Indiana Opera Company (Indianapolis Opera) and to financially support the artistic, educational, and cultural claims of the Opera.

    $50,934 spentof which $50,934 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $50,934.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($423k) Expenses 100 ($12k) Net assets 100 ($729k)2022 Revenue 25 ($107k) Expenses 169 ($21k) Net assets 111 ($808k)2023 Revenue 11 ($46k) Expenses 1056 ($130k) Net assets 106 ($774k)2024 Revenue 187 ($791k) Expenses 489 ($60k) Net assets 243 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 49 ($206k) Expenses 449 ($55k) Net assets 279 ($2.0M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (49)Expenses (449)Net assets (279)

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 $840k to $1.9M (+121%).

$795k
$870k
$840k
$1.9M
$2.1M
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$411k
’21
$87k
’22
−$83k
’23
$731k
’24
$151k
’25
3.6
months of
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed89101010
Joined·+1+1+1+0
No longer listed·0010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $27k.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 Indianapolis Opera Company Foundation 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

Indianapolis Opera Company Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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

97% 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 Indianapolis Opera Company Foundation Inc.

84%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 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

97% of Indianapolis Opera Company Foundation 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 funders outside Indiana, across 1 state.

NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

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In Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

48%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Indianapolis Opera Company · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Indianapolis Opera Company Foundation Inc?
Indianapolis Opera Company Foundation Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,811 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($80,550). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Indianapolis Opera Company Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $95,811 in grants to Indianapolis Opera Company Foundation Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Indianapolis Opera Company Foundation Inc?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Indianapolis Opera Company Foundation Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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