Totals
- Total revenue
- $186,328
- Total expenses
- $132,171
- Contributions and grants received
- $169,172
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $17,153
- Membership dues (line 3)
- $0
- Investment income (line 4)
- $3
- 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
- $151,660
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $3,842
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $147,818
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $113,724
Program services were 86.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2023
Primary exempt purpose
To produce socially relevant works in order to break down the barriers of the classical art form and bring communities together.
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Mounted a brand new production of 'The Cradle Will Rock' by Marc Blitzstein that fused live music performance with large scale shadow puppetry. Productions took place in April 2024 to sold out audiences at Heart of the Beast Theater in Minneapolis. 100 high school students from Lionsgate Academy, South High School and Leap High School attended the final dress rehearsal and got to see backstage and ask questions directly of the artists involved.
Expenses $45,397
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Presented our opera film 'Minagi kin dowan: a Zitkala-Sa Opera' at Big Top Chatauqua, one of the largest outdoor music festival venues in the midwest, in June 2024. They hosted us as part of their Family series and the production artists presented a hand drum music session and performance before and after the screening of the film.
Expenses $12,984
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Presented a new production of the AOT fan favorite production DIVAS & DRAG at the brand new 825 Arts venue in St. Paul in September 2024. We collaborated with two new co-artistic producers Queenie von Curves and Dick von Dyke and hired 14 local burlesque, drag, and singing artists to work together on new routines performed to live opera singing.
Expenses $27,574
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Other programmatic work to break down the barriers of the classical art form and bring communities together.
Expenses $27,769
As filed on the 2023 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Janette Davis
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Thomas Forsythe
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Yunyue Liu
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Andrew Eggum
Board Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Hurshini Lee
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Brittany Powell
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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
- 16 June 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2023v6.0
- Source object
- 202501989349200510
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