California · Nonprofit
OPERALIA FOUNDATION INC
OPERALIA FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300,000 to it, the largest being ARISON ARTS FOUNDATION ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $300k
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Operalia Foundation Inc does
Mission
The foundation provides support for opera and aspiring opera singers by funding an annual competition for young artists. The competition is held on a world wide basis, taking place in a major city each year. The 2025 competition took place in bulgaria.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The foundation receives approximately 1,000 applications from aspiring artists each year. The foundation evaluates recordings made by each applicant and then invites the top 40 singers to participate in the competition. The foundation provides grants to allow each applicant to attend the competition which takes place over several days. Ten singers are then chosen for the final round and awards are given to the winners. Success in this competition is often a stepping stone to a successful operatic career.
$855,818 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $855,818.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $1.7M to $5.3M (+202%).
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.
97% of OPERALIA FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Alvaro Domingo
CEO-Treasurer
Board chair
Placido Domingo
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 OPERALIA FOUNDATION 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.
Where its funders are
OPERALIA FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
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
OPERALIA FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like OPERALIA FOUNDATION 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPERALIA FOUNDATION 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 OPERALIA FOUNDATION INC?
- OPERALIA FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300,000 to it, the largest being ARISON ARTS FOUNDATION ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERALIA FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $300,000 in grants to OPERALIA FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERALIA FOUNDATION INC?
- ARISON ARTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERALIA FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2018–2025), 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