New Hampshire · Nonprofit
LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP
LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP (New Hampshire) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,378,143 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($767,430). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What Lebanon Opera House Improvement Corp does
Mission
As a cultural center for the upper valley region, lebanon opera house: 1) presents live performances that inspire, educate and entertain; 2) broadens cultural horizons by spotlighting a diversity of local, national, and international artists; 3) encourages community participation in the arts; and 4) stewards a special gathering place for community and school use that will engender future arts patrons and participants.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since 1924, lebanon opera house (loh) has served as a unifying catalyst for connections between artists and audiences, making it possible for people of all ages to experience the transformative power of the performing arts.loh is widely recognized and admired as a leading model of an inclusive, community-centered hub presenting the work of national touring artists, local and regional performers, and student-artists. Loh is the art and soul of the upper valley.we are the home stage for 12 community arts partners, many of whom attract the brightest local performers to the opera house for large-scale productions.in addition, we are the lebanon school district's "big stage for little kids" when hosting their music and theater productions. As the upper valley's community arts hub, we play an integral role in arts education and the pursuit of creativity.the loh presents main stage series (along with our off-site loh on location events, including the free three-day nexus music and arts festival) brings nationally known touring artists to the region. Increasingly, the artists we present serve as an on-stage reflection of our community's growing diversity and cultural interests.
$1,573,661 spent$1,049,900 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,573,661.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.8M to $7.4M (+96%).
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 1% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Joseph P Clifford
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $46k → $728k.
7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 38% · 2019 59% · 2020 44% · 2021 23% · 2022 40% · 2023 27% — 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.
How long its funders stay
64% of LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
54% of LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP
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 Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP?
- LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP (New Hampshire) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,378,143 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($767,430). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,378,143 in grants to LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $767,430 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 32 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