Delaware · Nonprofit
OPERADELAWARE INC
OPERADELAWARE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,924,594 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($585,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Operadelaware Inc does
Mission
Operadelaware is a professional non-profit opera company with a reputation for excellence in both opera and arts education. Operadelaware opens the door to bold, vibrant and creative operatic programming that enriches the community, transforms audiences, and encourages dialogue.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The 2024-2025 season saw continued growth in audience reach and community presence. This season, operadelaware enriched the lives of over 24,000 people through performing or presenting over 150 operatic performances, lectures, events, and youth education sessions throughout delaware and the mid-atlantic region. The 2024-2025 season attracted over 1,500 first-time patrons, as well as over 650 patrons from outside a 30-mile radius of wilmington. In addition, our riverfront studios served as home to many delaware arts organizations for office, rehearsal, performance, and event space.
$1,229,071 spent$149,447 earned by the program90% of program spendingOperadelaware's education and outreach programs reached underserved community centers and schools through a multi-pronged approach that provides students with instruction, training, presentations and performance opportunities. The curriculum, repertoire, and rehearsal time are closely tailored to the specific needs of each student body. The participation- based programs integrate the arts into curriculum as a way to reach a variety of learning styles. The 2024-2025 season saw a continuation of the neighborhood choir program and the launch of a new in-school education program led by operadelaware company artists, generating over 5,000 student interactions. These in- and after-school programs are geared towards young audiences and introduce children to the power and beauty of the unamplified human voice, while teaching important lessons about reading, writing, and music.
$135,661 spent$28,690 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,364,732.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.9M to $3.3M (+69%).
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 12% · 2018 13% · 2019 12% · 2020 22% · 2021 31% · 2022 22% · 2023 21% · 2024 10% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of OPERADELAWARE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $113k → $216k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 OPERADELAWARE 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
OPERADELAWARE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 OPERADELAWARE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 55% · 2019 60% · 2020 66% · 2021 32% · 2022 40% · 2023 28% — 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
60% of OPERADELAWARE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
52% of OPERADELAWARE INC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $523k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
OPERADELAWARE INC's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OPERADELAWARE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $866k on record — $124k federal, $742k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$124k
- GRANTS$720k
- GRANTS IN AID$16k
- OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE$6k
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 OPERADELAWARE 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPERADELAWARE 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 OPERADELAWARE INC?
- OPERADELAWARE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,924,594 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($585,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERADELAWARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,924,594 in grants to OPERADELAWARE INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERADELAWARE INC?
- LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $585,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERADELAWARE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 23 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