Louisiana · Nonprofit
SHREVEPORT OPERA
SHREVEPORT OPERA (Louisiana) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,443,129 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ($420,275). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $681k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Shreveport Opera does
Mission
The mission of Shreveport Opera is to produce professional opera and musical productions of the highest artistic quality and to provide educational programming and outreach to children, youth and adults in the ark-la-tex region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Shreveport Opera produces professional opera and musical productions of the highest artistic quality and provides educational programming and outreach to children, youth and adults in the ark-la-tex region.
$862,767 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $862,767.
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 $1.7M to $2.8M (+63%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 14% · 2022 53% · 2023 6% · 2024 11% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of SHREVEPORT OPERA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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 11 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $113k → $223k.
3 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $51k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Shreveport - Bossier Opera Guild). These are real filings, and they are not money SHREVEPORT OPERA raised.
From the IRS filings of SHREVEPORT 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
SHREVEPORT OPERA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% 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
53% 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 SHREVEPORT OPERA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 37% · 2019 36% · 2020 47% · 2021 34% · 2022 39% · 2023 25% — 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
89% of SHREVEPORT OPERA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 87% 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
95% of SHREVEPORT OPERA's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $449k 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.
Against its field
SHREVEPORT OPERA's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SHREVEPORT OPERA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $246k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$246k
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 SHREVEPORT 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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 SHREVEPORT 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 SHREVEPORT OPERA?
- SHREVEPORT OPERA (Louisiana) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,443,129 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ($420,275). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHREVEPORT OPERA have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,443,129 in grants to SHREVEPORT OPERA, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHREVEPORT OPERA?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA is the largest funder on record, with $420,275 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHREVEPORT OPERA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 23 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