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Grants for operas
199 operas received at least $7.7 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 578 grants made from 451 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,500. Of these 451 foundations, 87% made just a single grant to operas, and 3% made grants to four or more operas. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.
$7,741,166
Total grant dollars given to operas
578
Number of grants made annually to operas
451
Number of grantmakers funding operas
$1,500
Median grant size to operas
Foundations that support operas
Out of all grants made to operas, 77% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 85% of the dollar-value of grants to operas. Foundations funding operas also made grants to
art museums,
symphony orchestras,
theaters,
universities, and
food banks.
Foundation size
| Foundation size | Number of grantmakers |
|---|
| Small | |
| Medium | |
| Large | |
Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.
Grants made
| Grants made to operas | Number of grantmakers |
|---|
| 1 | |
| 2-3 | |
| 4-10 | |
| 11+ | |
Top 10 foundations supporting operas
Operas grantees
Operas with more than $5 million in total revenues received 90% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 46% of all operas.
Grant amounts
| Size of grant | Number of grants |
|---|
| <$10k | |
| $10k-$25k | |
| $25k-$100k | |
| $100k+ | |
Grant amount by grantee size
| Grantee annual revenue | Median grant size |
|---|
| <$100k | |
| $100k-$500k | |
| $500k-$1M | |
| $1M-$5M | |
| >$5M | |
Top 25 grants made to operas
| Grantee | Grant size | Purpose | Grantmaker |
|---|
| San Francisco Opera | $4,000,000 | Challenge Grant Match of $4 Million for Multi Year Pledge of $16 Million. | Goatie Foundation TA 20 |
| The Dallas Opera | $2,500,000 | Support of the Arts | Philanthropy Southwest |
| Lyric Opera of Kansas City | $5,000 | Support for the Lyric Opera Ball 2019 in Kansas City, Missouri, April 13, 2019. 201812-5623 | Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation |
| Charlottesville Opera | $5,000 | General Purposes | Charlottesville Area Community Foundation |
| Santa Barbara Opera Association | $5,000 | Grant | Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation |
| Tacoma Opera Association Professional Services | $5,000 | Charitable | Kilworth Florence Charitable Trust FNDN |
| Finger Lakes Opera | $5,000 | Charitable Purpose | Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation |
| Los Angeles Opera Company | $5,000 | Further Goals of the Foundation | Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation |
| The Santa Fe Opera (SFO) | $5,000 | Unrestricted | JS Charitable Trust |
| Palm Beach Opera | $5,000 | Palm Beach Opera Young Artists Program | Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Foundation |
| Opera Maine | $5,000 | Portopera Young Artists Program | Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Foundation |
| Opera Carolina | $5,000 | Fireplace in Great Room Naming in Honor of Ken Brown | Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Foundation |
| Mississippi Opera Association | $5,000 | To Support the Mission of the Organization. | Walker Foundation |
| Pittsburgh CLO | $5,000 | Matching Gift | Eqt Foundation |
| Nashville Opera Association | $5,000 | Arts/humanities | Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT) |
| Sun Valley Opera Company | $5,000 | To Achieve Charitable Purpose | James J Colt Foundation |
| Austin Lyric Opera | $5,000 | Unrestricted | The Dianne Smith Goggan Foundation |
| Opera Omaha | $5,000 | To Further Thecharitable Purposeof the Recipient | Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation |
| Opera Columbus | $5,000 | Arts and Humanities | The Columbus Foundation |
| Opera Columbus | $5,000 | Arts and Humanities | The Columbus Foundation |
| Opera Columbus | $5,000 | Arts and Humanities | The Columbus Foundation |
| Opera Columbus | $5,000 | Arts and Humanities | The Columbus Foundation |
| Opera Carolina | $5,000 | To Provide Funding and Foster Creativity Within the Community | Mattei Foundation |
| Hawaii Opera Theatre (HOT) | $5,000 | Support General Fund | First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation |
| Nashville Opera Association | $5,000 | General Support for Operations | Enchiridion Foundation |
Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Operas" category for this page is determined by the "A6A: Opera" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.