New York · Nonprofit
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc (New York) receives grants from 317 organizations whose IRS filings report $199,862,255 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($47,012,372). 207 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $304M
- Funders on record
- 317
- Grants received
- $200M
- Net assets
- $168M
What Metropolitan Opera Association Inc does
Mission
Performance of opera to the public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Preparation and presentation of opera performances at the metropolitan opera house as well as symphonic repertory at carnegie hall. Also includes outdoor presentation of concerts throughout parks in new york city. Parks concerts are presented to the public at no charge. The attendance of these performances is approximately five hundred and sixty-seven thousand people per season. Included in performance revenue is $1.5 million in contributions for the rush discount tickets program and $0.4 million related to in-kind ticket donations.
$236,512,524 spent$74,117,036 earned by the program85% of program spendingMedia presentation of opera performances, live performances broadcast in high definition to movie theaters throughout the world, domestic and international live audio transmissions of performances on radio and the met's website. Past performances broadcast on television, radio stations and the internet globally. Media presentations reached an audience of approximately 10 million.
$23,021,870 spent$16,787,536 earned by the program8% of program spendingPresentation of events other than opera where the met either presents or co-presents the event or licenses the opera house to third parties. The attendance at these events, principally ballet, was approximately 140,000 people per year.
$10,077,573 spent$9,378,918 earned by the program4% of program spendingOther program activities including merchandising, development of young artists through the lindemann young artist development program, and the laffont competition and concert.
$7,294,879 spentof which $705,350 as grants$2,180,218 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $276,906,846.
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 2020 to 2021, from $483M to $578M (+20%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 9% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of Metropolitan Opera Association Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (56% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Tod Johnson
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 81 funders to 157 funders, grant income rose $3.9M → $40M.
46 of 317 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $69M from 41 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Metropolitan Opera Guild). These are real filings, and they are not money Metropolitan Opera Association Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Metropolitan Opera Association Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 317 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
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
53% 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 Metropolitan Opera Association Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 28% · 2019 51% · 2020 15% · 2021 20% · 2022 23% · 2023 30% — 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
56% of Metropolitan Opera Association Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
51% of Metropolitan Opera Association 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 $97M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 28 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc receives grants from 317 organizations whose IRS filings report $200M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 43 arts & culture nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Metropolitan Opera Association Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$960k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$750k
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 Metropolitan Opera Association 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Impresario LLC · disregarded
- Met Opera Endowment Trustcentennial Fund · exempt
- The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (2) · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Metropolitan Opera Association Inc: 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 Metropolitan Opera Association Inc?
- Metropolitan Opera Association Inc (New York) receives grants from 317 organizations whose IRS filings report $199,862,255 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($47,012,372). 207 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Metropolitan Opera Association Inc have?
- IRS filings report 317 organizations giving $199,862,255 in grants to Metropolitan Opera Association Inc, 207 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Metropolitan Opera Association Inc?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $47,012,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Metropolitan Opera Association 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.
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 317 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