Minnesota · Nonprofit
THE GILBERT & SULLIVAN VERY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY
THE GILBERT & SULLIVAN VERY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $18,811 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($18,811). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $186k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $176k
What The Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company does
Mission
Opera Programs: Presenting Gilbert & Sullivan operas
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Staged productions of Patience (14 shows) and Iolanthe (15 shows), a concert production of the Brahms Requiem, performed at the MN State Fair.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2024 to 2025, from $141k to $176k (+25%).
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.
29% of THE GILBERT & SULLIVAN VERY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $8k.
From the IRS filings of THE GILBERT & SULLIVAN VERY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY’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.
Where its funders are
THE GILBERT & SULLIVAN VERY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state 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
THE GILBERT & SULLIVAN VERY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE GILBERT & SULLIVAN VERY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY
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 Minnesota
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 THE GILBERT & SULLIVAN VERY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY: 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 THE GILBERT & SULLIVAN VERY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY?
- THE GILBERT & SULLIVAN VERY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $18,811 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($18,811). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GILBERT & SULLIVAN VERY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $18,811 in grants to THE GILBERT & SULLIVAN VERY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GILBERT & SULLIVAN VERY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $18,811 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GILBERT & SULLIVAN VERY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 1 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