California · Nonprofit
LONG BEACH OPERA
LONG BEACH OPERA (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,966,797 to it, the largest being PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH ($553,789). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $815k
What Long Beach Opera does
Mission
Engaging people through provocative meaningful experiences that challenge, connect and inspire. Long Beach Opera produces operas in performing arts venues in long beach and regionally, and produces opera for youth in schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In fy25, lbo offered a truly distinctive series of performances based on the improvisational operas of queer latina composer pauline oliveros. Building on the success of bye bye butterfly, which premiered in july 2024, we launched our new season in december 2024 with earth ears, an hour-long scripted improvisational piece for instrumentalists and two singers that was performed in and around the angels gate cultural center in san pedro. Our second production, el relicario de los animales, featured a cast of performers who both sang and played instruments or conducted. Again, the piece was improvised, and featured a major opera star, jamie barton, in her conducting debut. The central production was preceded by a series of smaller performances presented simultaneously in the houses and (continued on sch. O) gardens of heritage square in glassell park in february 2025. Our final production of the season was library of maps, an improvisation created by three composer-performers and a team of additional singers and actors. Performed on the queen mary in april 2025, these shows took place in a cabaret-like setting, and offered audiences a chance to interact with the performers and ask…
$1,385,013 spent$54,813 earned by the program96% of program spendingLbo's opera @ school brings free live opera to long beach unified school district schools and beyond. Our most popular show, the playground king, created by sarah squire, unfolds on an actual school playground, featuring melodies from famous operas like carmen and la boheme. Performed by professional opera singers, the story follows a selfish bully who learns kindness and sharing after being invited to play with three classmates. Through familiar opera excerpts, children learn about problem-solving, teamwork and confronting bullying. Afterward, our singers lead a discussion on these themes, teach opera basics and answer questions--providing students insight into both anti-bullying and the lives of performing artists. In fy 25, the opera @ school program reached approximately 2,800 (continued on sch. O) students at 10 title I schools in long beach.
$55,721 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,440,734.
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 2024 to 2025, from $528k to $1.1M (+113%).
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 6% · 2020 18% · 2021 32% · 2022 30% · 2023 32% · 2024 11% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of LONG BEACH OPERA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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
Marjorie Beale
Interim executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $133k → $516k.
10 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 LONG BEACH OPERA’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
LONG BEACH OPERA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
43% 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 LONG BEACH OPERA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 44% · 2019 53% · 2020 21% · 2021 31% · 2022 17% · 2023 29% — 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
43% of LONG BEACH OPERA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
95% of LONG BEACH OPERA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $644k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
LONG BEACH OPERA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LONG BEACH OPERA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $320k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$320k
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 LONG BEACH OPERA
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LONG BEACH OPERA: 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 LONG BEACH OPERA?
- LONG BEACH OPERA (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,966,797 to it, the largest being PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH ($553,789). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LONG BEACH OPERA have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $2,966,797 in grants to LONG BEACH OPERA, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LONG BEACH OPERA?
- PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH is the largest funder on record, with $553,789 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LONG BEACH OPERA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 30 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing