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OPERA Western Reserve Inc

OPERA Western Reserve Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $362,214 to it, the largest being YOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL ($98,496). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$152k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$362k
Net assets
$86k
15/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What OPERA Western Reserve Inc does

Mission

Produce & present opera performances of highest quality to audiences in our region. Provide performance platform for local & regional professional artists. Take leadership role in arts education & audience development

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Produce present opera performances of highest quality to audiences in our region. Provide performance platform for local regional professional artists. Take leadership role in arts education audience development inc

    $122,320 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $122,320.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($177k) Expenses 100 ($168k) Net assets 100 ($54k)2018 Revenue 102 ($181k) Expenses 124 ($208k) Net assets 52 ($28k)2019 Revenue 110 ($194k) Expenses 94 ($157k) Net assets 132 ($71k)2020 Revenue 86 ($152k) Expenses 97 ($164k) Net assets 110 ($59k)2021 Revenue 90 ($158k) Expenses 66 ($111k) Net assets 198 ($107k)2022 Revenue 92 ($162k) Expenses 93 ($156k) Net assets 210 ($113k)2023 Revenue 92 ($163k) Expenses 102 ($171k) Net assets 196 ($105k)2024 Revenue 56 ($100k) Expenses 73 ($122k) Net assets 155 ($83k)2025 Revenue 86 ($152k) Expenses 93 ($157k) Net assets 160 ($86k)
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Revenue (86)Expenses (93)Net assets (160)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $59k to $107k (+79%).

$64k
$32k
$71k
$59k
$107k
$113k
$107k
$83k
$86k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

90% of OPERA Western Reserve Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’17
−$26k
’18
$37k
’19
−$12k
’20
$48k
’21
$6k
’22
−$7k
’23
−$22k
’24
−$4k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Denise Bayer

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $25k → $40k.

3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Western Reserve 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 Western Reserve Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

41% 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 Western Reserve Inc.

27%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 56% · 2019 57% · 2020 40% · 2021 32% · 2022 27% · 2023 25% — 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

58% of OPERA Western Reserve Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

OPERA Western Reserve Inc draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 5 states in all.

IL
OH
PA
CA
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OPERA Western Reserve Inc's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

99%

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 Western Reserve Inc?
OPERA Western Reserve Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $362,214 to it, the largest being YOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL ($98,496). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OPERA Western Reserve Inc have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $362,214 in grants to OPERA Western Reserve Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OPERA Western Reserve Inc?
YOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL is the largest funder on record, with $98,496 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OPERA Western Reserve Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 18 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