Texas · Nonprofit
Opera of the Plains
Opera of the Plains (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being CJ AND SYBLE FOWLSTON CHARITABLE TRUST ($4,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Opera of the Plains does
Mission
Opera of the Plains is a nonprofit corporation and shall be operated exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or the corresponding section of any future Federal tax code. Opera of the Plainss purpose is to present well-known operatic works modified for school age students providing an accessible entrance into the art. Opera of the Plains will also offer performance and training opportunities for opera and musical theatre enthusiasts within the Texas Panhandle and its surrounding area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Opera in the Schools - Prepared a childrens opera for presentation in public and private elementary schools in Midland TX and Wheeler TX. Service was provided over 6 days serving an estimated 2,000 students mostly grades 2 and 4.
$15,744 spentof which $15,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $15,744.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1k to $19k (+1228%).
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.
98% of Opera of the Plains’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Taylor Moreno
Social Media Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 of the Plains’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 of the Plains's grant income comes from Texas 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 of the Plains runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Opera of the Plains
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Opera of the Plains: 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 of the Plains?
- Opera of the Plains (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being CJ AND SYBLE FOWLSTON CHARITABLE TRUST ($4,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Opera of the Plains have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,000 in grants to Opera of the Plains.
- Who is the largest funder of Opera of the Plains?
- CJ AND SYBLE FOWLSTON CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Opera of the Plains find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2024–2025), 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