Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA
PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,789,850 to it, the largest being MCCUNE FOUNDATION PNC BANK NA ($1,085,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Benter Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Arts Equity & Education Fundshared fundersportfolio match
- Carol Franc Buck Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 2% · 2018 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $39k → $381k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL 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
PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 82%; 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 47% · 2018 98% · 2019 76% · 2020 42% · 2021 59% · 2022 79% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.
“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
31% of PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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 PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $176k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Benter Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 70 organizations that share your funders · funds 83 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Equity & Education Fundshared fundersportfolio matchPA · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Carol Franc Buck Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McKinney Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Musical Fund Society of Philadelphiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Claytor Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roy Cockrum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lida Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sakiyama Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shubert Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McAuley Ministriesshared funderslocalPA · backs 71 organizations that share your funders · funds 119 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA?
- PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,789,850 to it, the largest being MCCUNE FOUNDATION PNC BANK NA ($1,085,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,789,850 in grants to PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA?
- MCCUNE FOUNDATION PNC BANK NA is the largest funder on record, with $1,085,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing