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THE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS

THE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,372 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($96,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$71k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$235k
Net assets
$149k
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What The Opera Buffs Inc Co Mona Lands does

Mission

Fund student musicians

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Scholarships & grants to assist in the education of talented singers in the field of opera.

    $17,600 spent
    21% of program spending
  2. Showcase events to afford opera singers the opportunity to perform in front of live audiences

    $58,985 spent
    71% of program spending
  3. Auditions & master class

    $6,238 spent
    8% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $82,823.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($147k) Expenses 100 ($123k) Net assets 100 ($188k)2018 Revenue 68 ($100k) Expenses 86 ($106k) Net assets 99 ($186k)2019 Revenue 77 ($113k) Expenses 82 ($101k) Net assets 102 ($193k)2020 Revenue 86 ($126k) Expenses 32 ($39k) Net assets 148 ($280k)2021 Revenue 32 ($48k) Expenses 20 ($24k) Net assets 128 ($240k)2022 Revenue 107 ($158k) Expenses 106 ($131k) Net assets 28 ($53k)2023 Revenue 57 ($84k) Expenses 137 ($169k) Net assets 127 ($239k)2024 Revenue 74 ($108k) Expenses 126 ($155k) Net assets 102 ($193k)2025 Revenue 48 ($71k) Expenses 107 ($132k) Net assets 79 ($149k)
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Revenue (48)Expenses (107)Net assets (79)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 2021 to 2022, from $243k to $53k (−78%).

$188k
$186k
$195k
$281k
$243k
$53k
$239k
$193k
$149k
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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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

84% of THE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$24k
’17
−$6k
’18
$13k
’19
$87k
’20
$23k
’21
$27k
’22
−$85k
’23
−$47k
’24
−$62k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $18k → $40k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 THE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS’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 OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

48% 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 THE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS.

41%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 83% · 2022 81% · 2023 62% — 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

25% of THE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

94% of THE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS's grant income comes from California funders.

MA
CA

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

THE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−87% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

97%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS?
THE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,372 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($96,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $235,372 in grants to THE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $96,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 10 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