California · Nonprofit
PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT
PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,132,614 to it, the largest being PERENCHIO FOUNDATION ($365,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $890k
What Pacific Opera Project does
Mission
Pacific Opera Project's mission is to reimagine opera as an affordable adventure by making unforgettable, entertaining performances accessible to all. The organization presents innovative productions and community-based education and engagement programming, primarily in central and northeast los angeles, to expand access to opera and engage diverse audiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
During the year, the organization launched a new educational program, cuentos cantados!, a spanish-language in-school opera residency serving elementary students with bilingual music education. This program expands the organization's educational and community engagement services and increases access to opera for underserved audiences.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Pacific Opera Project (pop) presented a season of affordable, innovative opera and education programs serving diverse audiences across los angeles county. In fiscal year 2025, pop presented four mainstage productions to 7,428 patrons and 17 free community engagement events reaching 3343 attendees, and delivered three in-school residency curricula serving 540 students, mainly in title I schools. The organization also launched new initiatives, including cuentos cantados!, a spanish-language residency program, further advancing its mission to make high-quality opera accessible and engaging for all.
$631,598 spent$340,248 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $631,598.
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 $172k to $856k (+399%).
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 8% · 2018 3% · 2019 10% · 2021 10% · 2022 28% · 2023 25% · 2024 10% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT’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. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $7k → $272k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 OPERA PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 funders by total. 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 OPERA PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 OPERA PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 31% · 2022 30% · 2023 50% — 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
67% of PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 63% 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
98% of PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $520k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
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 PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT: 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 OPERA PROJECT?
- PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,132,614 to it, the largest being PERENCHIO FOUNDATION ($365,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,132,614 in grants to PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT?
- PERENCHIO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $365,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PACIFIC OPERA PROJECT 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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