Minnesota · Nonprofit
OPERA READING PROJECT
OPERA READING PROJECT (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,184 to it, the largest being SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS ($23,184). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $73k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $48k
What Opera Reading Project does
Mission
Opera Reading Project (ORP) was established in 2018 to provide financially accessible, professional-quality arts education opportunities for Minnesotans to engage in opera. We offer both auditioned and non-auditioned, affordable, and integrative programs, ensuring aspiring Minnesota singers can access professional training, hone their craft, and connect with other opera artists and audiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Opera Reading Project (ORP) provides financially accessible, professional-quality arts education experiences for Minnesotans to engage in opera and the vocal arts. ORP's goals are to provide a place where (1) The generosity of the artistic experience is shared with all; (2) Storytelling is enlivened through music and (3) Resilience is built through and beyond the creative process. To further our mission in our FY 2025 season, we presented 2 of our standard opera reading programs with public performances, engaging and educating 24 artists and 50-100 attendees per reading; these opera readings were Transformations (Susa) and a double-bill presentation of Alice Tierney (Dunphy) and Pagliacci (Puccini). We additionally presented two special public performance programs: one reading of an in-development opera by Jorge Sosa and John De Los Santos, entitled Ofrenda, which served as the opera's official piano-vocal workshop and engaged 5 additional artists and an audience of 50; and VOXSPEX, a genre fusion project developed by ORP's Music Director Lara Bolton and featuring both local artists and special guests, designed to challenge and enhance the audience's understanding of what the…
$45,842 spentof which $54,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $45,842.
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 $32k to $48k (+51%).
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.
85% of OPERA READING PROJECT’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
Colleen O'Shaughnessy Pollack
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 READING PROJECT’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 READING PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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
100% 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 READING PROJECT.
“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
100% of OPERA READING PROJECT's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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 READING PROJECT has grown faster 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 READING PROJECT
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 Minnesota
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 READING PROJECT: 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 READING PROJECT?
- OPERA READING PROJECT (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,184 to it, the largest being SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS ($23,184). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERA READING PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $31,184 in grants to OPERA READING PROJECT.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERA READING PROJECT?
- SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS is the largest funder on record, with $23,184 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERA READING PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 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