New York · Nonprofit
Opus 1 Foundation Corp
Opus 1 Foundation Corp (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,500 to it, the largest being MILTON AND SALLY AVERY ARTS FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $309k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Opus 1 Foundation Corp does
Mission
Opus 1 Foundation activates systemic sustainable and scalable solutions to social economic and environmental challenges through the power of the arts advancing opportunities for greater equity inclusion and innovation worldwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
During 2025 Opus 1 Foundation launched and administered the following new program services not previously reported: Memory of a Star - A STEAM education and audio technology initiative that transcribes gravitational waves and cosmic events into sound enabling multi-sensory learning experiences for students and accessible engagement with scientific phenomena through the arts. The program develops an interstellar audio catalogue spanning billions of years of cosmic history serving as an innovative educational tool bridging science technology engineering and the arts. Tales of the Boat Percakapan Perahu - An Opus 1 Foundation immersive multi-sensory art installation developed in collaboration with Indonesian artist Jan Stanlav exploring themes of unity environmental stewardship and shared humanity through the lens of Austronesian culture. During 2025 the installation was presented at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York City engaging an international audience of leaders across business government and social impact sectors. Art of Impact Virtual Summit - A public-facing educational convening produced by Opus 1 Foundation bringing together global leaders in philanthropy finance and the arts to explore how creative capital can solve systemic challenges. During the Spring 2025 Summit a single-day program of sessions examined topics ranging from legal frameworks for regenerative investment to the power of storytelling in policy change engaging an international audience of artists…
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Everyone is an Artist is a cyclical arts-based workforce development program empowering cultural workers with disabilities across the United States. Recognizing the inherent creative potential in everyone the program creates sustainable employment opportunities develops and disseminates accessible educational resources and partners with academic institutions to advance the integration of inclusive arts curricula.
$56,778 spent37% of program spendingMemory of a Star is a STEAM education and audio technology initiative that transcribes gravitational waves and cosmic events into sound enabling multi-sensory learning experiences for students and accessible engagement with scientific phenomena through the arts. The program develops an interstellar audio catalogue spanning billions of years of cosmic history serving as an innovative educational tool bridging science technology engineering and the arts for sensory- and non-sensory impaired students.
$75,137 spent49% of program spendingTales of the Boat is an Opus 1 Foundation immersive multi-sensory installation developed in collaboration with Indonesian artist Jan Stanlav. Set against the backdrop of Indonesias cultural landscape the installation explores themes of unity environmental stewardship and shared humanity through the lens of Austronesian culture deploying captivating visuals evocative soundscapes and interactive experiences to transport audiences into a world where past and present converge. In 2025 the installation was presented at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York City engaging an international audience of leaders across business government and social impact sectors.
$12,855 spent8% of program spendingNext PAGE is a trauma-informed creative writing workshop that provides a safe space for incarcerated youth to build community shape self-identity and open up about past struggles. Giving kids in the system the tools to tell their own narratives youth are encouraged to glance backward in order to focus on the future looking ahead to transitioning back into society. The program is designed to encourage a love of writing and the arts enhancing communication and behavioral skills and in the long-term helping rectify abysmal literacy rates amongst incarcerated teens in New York.
$9,574 spent6% of program spendingThe Art of Impact Virtual Summit is an annual public-facing educational convening produced by Opus 1 Foundation bringing together global leaders in philanthropy finance and the arts to explore how creative capital can solve systemic challenges. During the Spring 2025 Summit sessions examined topics ranging from legal frameworks for regenerative investment to the power of storytelling in policy change challenging participants to think expansively and act with purpose. The Summit engaged an international audience of artists cultural workers nonprofit leaders funders and impact-oriented professionals serving as a platform for knowledge exchange cross-sector collaboration and the amplification of arts-powered solutions to pressing global issues. The Art of Impact Virtual Summit advances Opus 1 Foundations mission by positioning creative capital as a catalyst for systemic social economic and environmental change.
$425 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $154,769.
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 $100k to $5k (−95%).
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: 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Opus 1 Foundation Corp’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Christopher Coritsidis
President CEO
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 Opus 1 Foundation Corp’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
Opus 1 Foundation Corp leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
“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
Opus 1 Foundation Corp draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states 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
Opus 1 Foundation Corp has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Opus 1 Foundation Corp receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 Opus 1 Foundation Corp
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
37%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Opus 1 Foundation Corp: 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 Opus 1 Foundation Corp?
- Opus 1 Foundation Corp (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,500 to it, the largest being MILTON AND SALLY AVERY ARTS FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Opus 1 Foundation Corp have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $24,500 in grants to Opus 1 Foundation Corp.
- Who is the largest funder of Opus 1 Foundation Corp?
- MILTON AND SALLY AVERY ARTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Opus 1 Foundation Corp find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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