Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
OPERA PHILADELPHIA
OPERA PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,754,151 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($3,383,146). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 98
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Opera Philadelphia does
Mission
To be philadelphia's professional producer of quality grand opera, producing a diverse range of repertoire featuring international artists alongside rising young singers, and to produce educational programs which nurture the future and relevance of the art form.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In fy25 Opera Philadelphia produced: missy mazzoli's the listeners (october 2024) featuring nicole heaston (claire devon) and kevin burdette (howard bard), directed by lileana blain- cruz and conducted by corrado rovaris; joseph bologne's the anonymous lover (january/february 2025), featuring symone harcum (leontine), directed by dennis whitehead darling and conducted by jalena bovell; and new production of don giovanni (may 2025), featuring sidney outlaw (don giovanni), directed by alison moritz and conducted by corrado rovaris.
$7,147,886 spent$643,489 earned by the program93% of program spendingOpera Philadelphia inaugurated the pick your price initiative, offering tickets as low as $11 each, selling out the season and making opera accessible to new audiences. In addition, continued its community initiatives with programming that impacts students and adults throughout philadelphia. Opera Philadelphia also produced a free concert at city hall as part of center city district's arts on center stage and mother tree cantata in partnership with parksingers.
$538,598 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,686,484.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $9.3M to $7.3M (−22%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 6% · 2021 39% · 2022 15% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of OPERA PHILADELPHIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Peter Leone
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $2.9M.
15 of 98 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 PHILADELPHIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 98 funders by total. 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 PHILADELPHIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 30% · 2019 32% · 2020 33% · 2021 29% · 2022 31% · 2023 32% — 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
55% of OPERA PHILADELPHIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
53% of OPERA PHILADELPHIA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 PHILADELPHIA's funding base is broadening — from 25 funders to 39 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding OPERA PHILADELPHIA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $380k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$380k
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 PHILADELPHIA
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPERA PHILADELPHIA: 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 PHILADELPHIA?
- OPERA PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,754,151 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($3,383,146). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERA PHILADELPHIA have?
- IRS filings report 98 organizations giving $24,754,151 in grants to OPERA PHILADELPHIA, 63 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERA PHILADELPHIA?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,383,146 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERA PHILADELPHIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 98 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing