New Mexico · Nonprofit
Taos Opera Institute
Taos Opera Institute (New Mexico) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,500 to it, the largest being THE MOORE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($21,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $189k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $62k
- Net assets
- $31k
What Taos Opera Institute does
Mission
To provide training and instruction to aspiring opera singers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided a summer program at Taos Ski Valley for 28 aspiring opera singers. Weekly activities consisted of voice lessons and language coaching, daily physical activity (Yoga & Hiking), classes in language study and the business aspects of a career in music. Students received lodging, some meals and all training at a much reduced rate
$183,492 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $183,492.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $46k to $16k (−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.
42% of Taos Opera Institute’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Kandace Nachtrab
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $9k.
From the IRS filings of Taos Opera Institute’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
Taos Opera Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 62% · 2019 60% · 2020 55% · 2021 67% · 2022 69% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
Taos Opera Institute draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Taos Opera Institute has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Taos Opera Institute
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 New Mexico
Nationally
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Taos Opera Institute: 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 Taos Opera Institute?
- Taos Opera Institute (New Mexico) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,500 to it, the largest being THE MOORE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($21,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Taos Opera Institute have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $61,500 in grants to Taos Opera Institute, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Taos Opera Institute?
- THE MOORE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $21,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Taos Opera Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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