New York · Nonprofit
TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC
TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC (New York) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,059,826 to it, the largest being CONRAD & VIRGINIA KLEE FOUNDATION INC ($674,500). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $864k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $657k
What Tri-Cities Opera Company Inc does
Mission
The production of professional quality opera using the talents of young artists. Tco sets the standard for artistic excellence while enriching, enhancing, engaging & educating our community through the power of live musical storytelling.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The company produced operas to be viewed by the community.
$407,412 spent$126,529 earned by the program75% of program spendingThe company's resident artists go to schools and other community venues to present children's opera live and in-person and film children's opera for digital distribution.
$25,564 spent$25,050 earned by the program5% of program spendingThe company rents costumes and sets to other nonprofit organizations for use in opera productions.
$95,698 spent$110,159 earned by the program18% of program spendingOther programs
$16,264 spent$16,307 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $544,938.
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 $861k to $1.3M (+56%).
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 5% · 2018 4% · 2019 7% · 2021 39% · 2022 10% · 2023 14% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of TRI-CITIES 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. 3 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Dennis Thompson
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $250k → $282k.
5 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
27% 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 TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 36% · 2019 32% · 2020 34% · 2021 34% · 2022 39% · 2023 32% — 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
86% of TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% 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
87% of TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $110k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$110k
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 TRI-CITIES 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 TRI-CITIES 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 TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC?
- TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC (New York) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,059,826 to it, the largest being CONRAD & VIRGINIA KLEE FOUNDATION INC ($674,500). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,059,826 in grants to TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC?
- CONRAD & VIRGINIA KLEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $674,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 32 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