Texas · Nonprofit
PERMIAN BASIN OPERA
PERMIAN BASIN OPERA (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $617,500 to it, the largest being REA CHARITABLE TRUST ($315,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $53k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $618k
- Net assets
- $12k
What Permian Basin Opera does
Mission
At Permian Basin Opera, we are dedicated to bringing the transformative power of opera to our community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Opera live - yearly productions that bring quality performances for the general public. These productions provide programming for children and families that are either minorities or have a low socio-economic status.opera in the schools - educational programming that showcases students attending university for performing arts putting on a production for elementary age students in midland.youth mentor program - monthly classes for junior and high school students interested in attending university and having eventual careers in the performing arts. This program provides valuable training to prepare the students for what to expect in their futures.opera 101 - weekly courses held at midland college as a furthering education class that teaches opera history.
$86,886 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $86,886.
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 2017 to 2018, from $263k to $93k (−65%).
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.
90% of PERMIAN BASIN OPERA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $65k → $89k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 PERMIAN BASIN OPERA’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
PERMIAN BASIN OPERA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 53% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 42% · 2022 77% · 2023 84% — 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
50% of PERMIAN BASIN OPERA's funders are still giving 3 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
PERMIAN BASIN OPERA draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PERMIAN BASIN OPERA's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like PERMIAN BASIN OPERA
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
77%
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 PERMIAN BASIN OPERA: 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 PERMIAN BASIN OPERA?
- PERMIAN BASIN OPERA (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $617,500 to it, the largest being REA CHARITABLE TRUST ($315,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PERMIAN BASIN OPERA have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $617,500 in grants to PERMIAN BASIN OPERA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PERMIAN BASIN OPERA?
- REA CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $315,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PERMIAN BASIN OPERA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 8 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