Iowa · Nonprofit
OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS
OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being UPPER MISSISSIPPI GAMING CORP ($16,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $220k
What Opera House Players does
Mission
Promote Theater and the Arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Spring Play "Arsenic & Old Lace" performed. 17 actors / crew. 6 performances. 763 people attended
$8,087 spent21% of program spendingSummer Children's Theater "Imagine a Dragon" performed. 41 actors / crew. 1 performance. 208 attended.
$5,126 spent14% of program spendingFall Playl "The Play the Goes Wrong" Performed. 15 actors / crew. 6 performances. 1405 people attended.
$15,759 spent42% of program spendingMusical "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever the Musical". 35 performers / crew 6 performances 1802 attended
$8,811 spent23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,783.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $190k to $220k (+16%).
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.
37% of OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 HOUSE PLAYERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS?
- OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being UPPER MISSISSIPPI GAMING CORP ($16,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $16,000 in grants to OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS?
- UPPER MISSISSIPPI GAMING CORP is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 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