Texas · Nonprofit
The Dallas Opera Foundation
The Dallas Opera Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $591,539 to it, the largest being The Sands Foundation ($550,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Dallas Opera Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Fichtenbaum Charitable Trustshared fundersportfolio match
- Taca Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Endowment Incshared funderslocalportfolio 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.
13% of The Dallas Opera Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $50k → $37k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $246k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Dallas Opera). These are real filings, and they are not money The Dallas Opera Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of The Dallas Opera Foundation’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
The Dallas Opera Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — 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
94% of The Dallas Opera Foundation's grant income comes from Texas funders.
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.
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.
- Fichtenbaum Charitable Trustshared fundersportfolio matchTX · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Taca Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchTX · backs 14 organizations that share your funders · funds 79 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Endowment Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchTX · backs 10 organizations that share your funders · funds 80 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District Corporationlocalportfolio matchTX · funds 66 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Civic Lubbock Incshared fundersTX · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
- Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement District Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Opera America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stephens Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fifth Avenue Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Howard Hallam Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hal & Diane Brierley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hahl Proctor Charitable Trustshared fundersTX · backs 13 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like The Dallas Opera Foundation
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Dallas Opera · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Dallas Opera Foundation: 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 The Dallas Opera Foundation?
- The Dallas Opera Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $591,539 to it, the largest being The Sands Foundation ($550,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Dallas Opera Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $591,539 in grants to The Dallas Opera Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Dallas Opera Foundation?
- The Sands Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Dallas Opera Foundation 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.
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 3funders 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