Ohio · Nonprofit
TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION
TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,657,560 to it, the largest being GORSKI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($757,262). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Toledo Opera Association does
Mission
The mission of toledo opera is to create opera experiences in the theater, in the classroom, and throughout our community that celebrate compelling stories, expressed through glorious music and powerful voices to engage, connect, and inspire. Toledo opera's vision is to be an ambitious cultural leader in the region by pairing storytelling and artistry of the highest caliber with authentic community connections.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024-2025, toledo opera produced one opera and one golden age broadway musical as our season offerings, expanding our audience reach. We opened the season in october 2024 with tosca, which toledo opera hadn't produced since 2014. In february 2025, we successfully produced the classic broadway musical south pacific, which sold at 90% of capacity!
$804,525 spent$244,108 earned by the program94% of program spendingToledo opera saw increases in the number of schools taking advantage of our touring program, opera on wheels. We performed a child-friendly version of an andre gretry opera, beauty and the beast, in 60 schools in our region and reached approximately 22,000 students in grades k-6.
$54,324 spent$27,499 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $858,849.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.9M to $5.0M (+28%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 17% · 2022 20% · 2023 4% · 2024 12% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION’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. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $129k → $370k.
11 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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
TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
36% 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 TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 60% · 2019 49% · 2020 47% · 2021 33% · 2022 27% · 2023 35% — 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
52% of TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
98% of TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $556k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $81k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$81k
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 TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION: 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 TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION?
- TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,657,560 to it, the largest being GORSKI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($757,262). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,657,560 in grants to TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION?
- GORSKI FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $757,262 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 31 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