Vermont · Nonprofit
OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY INC
OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY INC (Vermont) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,132 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,550). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $259k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $152k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Opera Company of Middlebury Inc does
Mission
The mission of the Opera Company of Middlebury (OCM) is to bring professional-level, quality live opera productions and experiences to our region. We also maintain a robust educational program for emerging professionals and teen singers while expanding our broader communities' understanding of opera through outreach programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024 OCM made the decision to change the dates of its fiscal year. This change necessitated a shortened fiscal year, which was from November 2024 to June 2025. The shortened fiscal year resulted in just one mainstage opera production: La Boheme, composed by Giacomo Puccini. La Boheme was staged in June of 2025 to sold-out audiences of over 750 people. OCM's shows use professional singers and professional musicians from across the United States. The chorus of Boheme featured singers from Vermont and New Hampshire and included a children's chorus of six youth, all of whom had to audition to be a part of the production. Tickets are free for opera patrons aged 26 and younger, thanks to a generous donor. 56 young people took advantage of this opportunity for the mainstage production with 21 young people opting to see the Young Artist production (see accomplishment #2).
$237,369 spent$76,459 earned by the program78% of program spendingOCM staged Giacomo Puccini's one-act comic opera Gianni Schicchi on June 13 and 15, 2025. Ten singers who are early in their careers participated in this production. Both shows, numbering 160 tickets, were sold out. The Young Artists Program, as this training and performance program is called, helps to prepare these younger artists for careers as professional singers. In addition to staging Gianni Schicchi, they served as understudies for La Boheme and participated in its chorus. These artists presented a concert of songs by Puccini and Puccini's contemporaries. The Young Artists receive extensive training, coaching by industry professionals, and master classes by directors and agents.
$25,922 spentof which $8,000 as grants$11,140 earned by the program9% of program spendingAn important part of OCM's mission is to expose opera to youth. OCM does this by providing training and performance opportunities for high school youth through three programs: a Fall residency in a local high school to teach the youth about opera and to stage performances of Dido and Aeneas; an afterschool opera scenes program; and a summer program for high school and college students with performances in senior living residences. In the Fall of 2024 the Dido and Aeneas program was held at the three high schools in Addison County, VT: Middlebury Union, Mount Abraham Union, and Vergennes Union. This collaboration resulted in a full-scale opera production with over 140 students on stage for each of the two performances. High school students also received valuable training and experience in backstage roles, as stage managers, props personnel, and in lighting and sound roles. The afterschool opera scenes program gives high school youth one-on-one coaching and the opportunity to learn music of a specific language or from a selected composer. These youth gain skills and knowledge and then gain confidence by performing in front of an audience. A unique program is developed each Fall and…
$39,558 spent$4,655 earned by the program13% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $302,849.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $19k to $198k (+933%).
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: 2021 4% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $36k.
4 of 12 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.
From the IRS filings of OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY 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
OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 48% · 2020 72% · 2021 33% · 2022 29% · 2023 69% — 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
33% of OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
52% of OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY 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 $73k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY INC's revenue grew 27% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY INC?
- OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY INC (Vermont) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,132 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,550). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $152,132 in grants to OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $50,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 12 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