California · Nonprofit
Pacific Lyric Association
Pacific Lyric Association (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,310 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($15,310). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Pacific Lyric Association does
Mission
Pacific Lyric Associations Mission is to present full productions of operas ballets operettas and musicals in a manner that our local audiences can easily understand and afford engage new audiences of adults and children and provide on-the-job training to young vocal and instrumental artists
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Orchestra and Vocal internships for young artists
$32,000 spent34% of program spendingOpera Education Program for local middle school and high school students
$12,000 spent13% of program spendingPresenting traditional opera productions in the manner that children new-comers and families can understand.
$50,000 spent53% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $94,000.
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 2022 to 2023, from $16k to $75k (+378%).
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.
75% of Pacific Lyric Association’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Anna Belaya
Executive Director - Board President
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $15k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 Pacific Lyric Association’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
Pacific Lyric Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% 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
94% 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 Pacific Lyric Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 Pacific Lyric Association's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
Pacific Lyric Association has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Pacific Lyric Association
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.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pacific Lyric Association: 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 Pacific Lyric Association?
- Pacific Lyric Association (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,310 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($15,310). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pacific Lyric Association have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $32,310 in grants to Pacific Lyric Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pacific Lyric Association?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,310 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pacific Lyric Association 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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