Virginia · Nonprofit
OPERA IN WILLIAMSBURG INC
OPERA IN WILLIAMSBURG INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $266k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $-38464
What Opera in Williamsburg Inc does
Mission
Opera in Williamsburgs objectives are as follows: Create exceptionally engaging attractive and elegant live fully-staged standard repertoire opera productions with world-class cast and creative team in Williamsburg Virginia Attract new audiences to mainstream live Opera and providing Opera lovers with more opportunities to see superb live performances locally Help outstanding professional artists to earn a living by their art Bring the beauty and passion of live Opera singing to schools and to groups that cannot attend performances Assisted Living Memory Units Opera in Williamsburg is dedicated to bringing to Williamsburg Virginia intimate fully-staged opera with world class cast. Funded by ticket sales and the support of members of the community Opera in Williamsburg is committed to the highest artistic standards and maintains a relationship with the International Vocal Arts Institute IVAI under Joan Dornemann and Paul Nadler.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Created and presented a fully-stage production of the opera The Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach and of Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti with orchestra in the original French and Italian with English supertitles. Each performed three performances at the Kimball Theatre Williamsburg Virginia May and September 2024. Some income is for tickets to 2025 operas. Held two stand-alone art song concerts a dinner concert with fund-raising auction and a brunch concert with a raffle as well as free concerts with the singers of each opera. Visit schools when we have opportunities at no charge to the school. Provide our recordings to local public broadcasting at no charge. Hold a donors event with a concert for donors. Note: most expenses by far are for opera productions most by far are for artists fees and the expenses of concerts leading up to an opera are difficult to separate.
$240,003 spent$67,724 earned by the program95% of program spendingHeld a dinner concert with auction as well as a brunch concert with our singers. Income is for brunch raffle income from auction is listed separately and paddle raise at dinner is listed in donations.
$12,229 spent5% of program spendingHeld a free concert with the cast of each opera
$170 spent0% of program spendingConcerts of Italian art songs and of art songs based on Jewish folk songs
$0 spent$2,530 earned by the program0% of program spendingProvided the local public broadcasting WHRO with a recording of our operas from ready to broadcast with subtitles; shared with local audience.
$0 spent0% of program spendingHeld free pre-opera talks before each opera by Dr. Glenn Winters.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $252,402.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $2k to $9k (+339%).
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: 2022 12% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of OPERA IN WILLIAMSBURG INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
Board chair
Paul Try
Chair of the Board of Directors
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $1k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 IN WILLIAMSBURG 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 IN WILLIAMSBURG INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
63% 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 IN WILLIAMSBURG INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
63% of OPERA IN WILLIAMSBURG 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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 IN WILLIAMSBURG INC has grown faster than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like OPERA IN WILLIAMSBURG 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPERA IN WILLIAMSBURG 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 OPERA IN WILLIAMSBURG INC?
- OPERA IN WILLIAMSBURG INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPERA IN WILLIAMSBURG INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,000 in grants to OPERA IN WILLIAMSBURG INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERA IN WILLIAMSBURG INC?
- RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERA IN WILLIAMSBURG INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 2 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