Michigan · Nonprofit
TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL
TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL (Michigan) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,552 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $181k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Tibbits Opera Foundation and Arts Council does
Mission
To provide cultural and educational benefits and preservation of the historic tibbits opera house.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Produces professional summer stock theatre and a youth theatre program presents professional touring artists and arts programming for area schools and youth provides the historic theatre as a venue for community organizations, businesses and individuals
$675,705 spent$330,592 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $675,705.
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 $2.3M to $2.6M (+15%).
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 8% · 2018 8% · 2019 6% · 2020 16% · 2021 11% · 2022 9% · 2023 3% · 2024 11% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% 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
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
Christine Delaney
Execdirector
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $24k → $23k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL’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
TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 58% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 87% · 2023 56% — 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
20% of TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
61% of TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $70k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k 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
TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL has grown faster than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL: 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 TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL?
- TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL (Michigan) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,552 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $180,552 in grants to TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 14 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing