Connecticut · Nonprofit
THE OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS INC
THE OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,451 to it, the largest being CORNELIA T BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $201k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $76k
- Net assets
- $247k
What The Opera House Players Inc does
Mission
To produce high quality artistic performances and programs, provide an engaging outlet for diverse communities to develop their unique voices, and inspire and support communities to initiate their own creative projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Major theatrical/musical productions, costume rentals to the local community, and charitable campaigns.
$77,541 spent$163,157 earned by the program95% of program spendingMajor theatrical/musical productions including but not limited to, "mamma mian", "little mermaid- and other events and charitable campaigns. The pandemic caused several shows and other activities to be cancelled.
$3,862 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $81,403.
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 2022 to 2023, from $175k to $1.5M (+744%).
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: 2022 53% · 2023 38% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of THE OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS INC’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 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $12k → $41k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 HOUSE PLAYERS 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 HOUSE PLAYERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 HOUSE PLAYERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 53% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 61% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of THE OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
57% of THE OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 HOUSE PLAYERS INC is better cushioned 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
Government funding THE OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $249k on record — $10k federal, $239k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$212k
- State Aid Grants$27k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
40% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 HOUSE PLAYERS INC?
- THE OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,451 to it, the largest being CORNELIA T BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $76,451 in grants to THE OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS INC?
- CORNELIA T BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE OPERA HOUSE PLAYERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 9 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