Texas · Nonprofit
The Opera Company Inc
The Opera Company Inc (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,592 to it, the largest being Paso del Norte Community Foundation ($85,051). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $395k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $314k
- Net assets
- $-1951
What The Opera Company Inc does
Mission
The mission of El Paso Opera is to harness the transformative power of our art to engage with the local and larger cwommunity as a lasting and valued cultural service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
El Paso Opera Enriches The Lives Of The Community Members And Students Through High Quality Professional Main Stage Productions And Educational Outreach Programs. The OperaS Productions Have Attracted Several Thousand Audience Members Annually.
$139,766 spent$62,740 earned by the program48% of program spendingEl Paso Opera Enriches The Lives Of The Community Members And Students Through High Quality Professional Supplemental Shows And Educational Outreach Programs. The OperaS Productions Have Attracted Several Thousand Audience Members Annually.
$20,936 spent$20,213 earned by the program7% of program spendingEl Paso Opera Enriches The Lives Of The Community Members And Students Through High Quality Professional FAll Opera And Educational Outreach Programs. The OperaS Productions Have Attracted Several Thousand Audience Members Annually.
$4,473 spent$4,500 earned by the program2% of program spendingThe Operas cummunity outreach program performs free cummnity perfromances troughout the El Paso area.
$126,708 spent43% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $291,883.
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 2021 to 2022, from $155k to $329k (+112%).
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: 2017 6% · 2024 38% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of The Opera Company Inc’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. 5 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.
Chief executive
Arianne Marcee
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $73k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 Company Inc’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 Company Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
30% 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 Company Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 48% · 2021 46% · 2022 40% · 2023 41% — 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
60% of The Opera Company Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
The Opera Company Inc draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k 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.
Against its field
The Opera Company Inc's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Opera Company Inc
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- El Paso Opera Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Opera Company Inc: 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 Opera Company Inc?
- The Opera Company Inc (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,592 to it, the largest being Paso del Norte Community Foundation ($85,051). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Opera Company Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $313,592 in grants to The Opera Company Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Opera Company Inc?
- Paso del Norte Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $85,051 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Opera Company Inc 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.
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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 8 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