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QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera

QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $482,872 to it, the largest being Greenacres Foundation Inc ($150,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$121k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$483k
Net assets
$191k
10/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 91%
01What it does

What QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera does

Mission

Classical music performances in Cincinnati.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. We performed a major production of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta in collaboration with the Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, featuring blind soprano Cristina Jones in the title role.

    $108,075 spentof which $94,220 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $108,075.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($82k) Expenses 100 ($34k) Net assets 100 ($78k)2021 Revenue 126 ($104k) Expenses 124 ($42k) Net assets 180 ($140k)2022 Revenue 165 ($136k) Expenses 374 ($127k) Net assets 191 ($149k)2023 Revenue 234 ($193k) Expenses 445 ($151k) Net assets 245 ($191k)2024 Revenue 195 ($161k) Expenses 494 ($168k) Net assets 238 ($186k)2025 Revenue 146 ($121k) Expenses 340 ($116k) Net assets 244 ($191k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (146)Expenses (340)Net assets (244)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $78k to $140k (+80%).

$78k
$140k
$149k
$191k
$186k
$191k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

86% of QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
’20
$62k
’21
$9k
’22
$42k
’23
−$7k
’24
$5k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Deborah Lewis

President of the Board

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $5k → $176k.

3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City 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

QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

28% 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 QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera.

31%
largest funder
65%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 51% · 2019 83% · 2020 31% · 2021 68% · 2022 35% · 2023 45% — 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

63% of QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

66% of QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH
NJ
KY
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

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Questions and answers

Who funds QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera?
QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $482,872 to it, the largest being Greenacres Foundation Inc ($150,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $482,872 in grants to QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera?
Greenacres Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 12 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