Form 990-EZ for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$198,071

Total expenses

$190,027

Contributions and grants received

$195,402

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$2,669

Membership dues (line 3)

$0

Investment income (line 4)

$0

Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)

$0

Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)

$0

Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)

$0

Other revenue (line 8)

$0

Total assets, end of year

$28,008

Total liabilities, end of year

$7,589

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$20,419

Program service expenses (Part III)

$129,915

Program services were 68.4% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

Mission and programs · 2023

• Our season kicked off on November 8 and 9, 2023 with a two-day workshop at the Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) of the new opera Five Ways to Die. This work was commissioned by EiO and featured librettos from Joanie Brittingham, Jason Cady, Britt Hewitt, Marcella Murray and Melisa Tien and new music from composers Jason Cady, Anthony Gatto, Jesse Gelaznik, Seong Ae Kim, Del'Shawn Taylor. The workshop culminated in a full run of the piece for an audience of 57 listeners, including members of the HSA community.

  Expenses $8,000

• On January 13, 2024, we produced the second workshop for the new opera A Prize for Every Player with a libretto by celebrated author A.M. Homes based on her story by the same name. Composer and EiO Founder Aaron Siegel wrote 30 minutes of music for this opera which follows a family of four into a large department store for their weekly Sunday shop. The workshop performance took place in an unused storefront in Chelsea. The creative team, led by director Mark DeChiazza converted the space into a department store and audience members were ushered around the building based on the storyline. 84 audience members attended this thrilling workshop performance.

  Expenses $9,739

• On April 15, 2024, Experiments in Opera partnered with Works & Process for a single night performance of Act 1 of Phil Kline's new opera The Lives and Dreams of Nikola Tesla at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan. The opera featured films by Jim Jarmusch and singing by noted countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. The cast of 9 singers and 8 instrumentalists shared the story of the well known inventor's final days in the Gotham Hotel at the turn of the 20th Century. 276 audience members were in attendance at the performance which was previewed by the San Francisco Classical Voice publication.

  Expenses $20,783 · Grants $15,000

• On May 30, 2024, EiO presented the first workshop of a new opera Crystal's Channel, by EiO Co-Founder Jason Cady at Brooklyn Art Haus in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In addition, we shared the workshop performance of another new opera, Souls Unscreened, written by Alize Francheska Rozsnyai with music by Roger A. Martinez. 82 audience members were in the house for this rousing evening.

  Expenses $4,000

• The new opera Five Ways to Die received its premiere production at HERE in Tribeca from June 27-30, 2024. This production included full staging, costumes and designs and was the featured presentation of the whole season. With contributions from 10 artists, this show was the culmination of two years of work by the EiO Writers' Room, which was established as a way to bring in underrepresented voices to the opera creation process. This premiere production at HERE played for a total audience of 233 listeners over the course of the four-show run.

  Expenses $87,393

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part IV

Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990_ez

Tax year

2023

Filed

30 August 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.0

Source object

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