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Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MILWAUKEE OPERA THEATRE (Wisconsin) is funded by 6 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $183,469 in grants to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($77,550). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MILWAUKEE OPERA THEATRE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,994 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,994 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
The base broadened — 1 funders to 3 as grant income moved $8k → $21k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 MILWAUKEE OPERA THEATRE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
MILWAUKEE OPERA THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 37% · 2021 51% · 2022 78% · 2023 38% · 2024 39% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
MILWAUKEE OPERA THEATRE is locally rooted: 77% of its grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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. view filing