Totals
- Total revenue
- $10,529,091
- Total expenses
- $11,557,181
- Contributions and grants received
- $7,665,565
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $2,210,325
- Investment income
- $784,548
- Other revenue
- -$131,347
- Total assets, end of year
- $42,543,170
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $1,668,913
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $40,874,257
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $8,148,638
- Management and general expenses
- $2,014,230
- Fundraising expenses
- $1,394,313
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $8,148,638
Program services were 70.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1c · Fundraising events
$192,590
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1d · Related organizations
$2,063,896
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$546,554
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$4,862,525
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$2,409,984
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2a · Program service revenue: Opera Season/Admissions
total $1,614,933 · related or exempt $1,614,933
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2b · Program service revenue: Luminary Arts Center
total $217,955 · related or exempt $217,955
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2c · Program service revenue: Rental Income
total $33,578 · related or exempt $33,578
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2f · All other program service revenue
total $343,859 · related or exempt $343,859
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3 · Investment income
total $784,548 · excluded $784,548
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6a · Gross rents
personal property $48,659
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6b · Less rental expenses
personal property $27,324
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6c · Rental income or loss
personal property $21,335
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $21,335 · unrelated business $21,335
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8a · Fundraising events: gross income
$92,163
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8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$192,590
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8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses
$244,845
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total -$152,682 · excluded -$152,682
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $431,117 · management and general $431,117
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $52,982 · fundraising $52,982
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $5,675,764 · program services $4,233,101 · management and general $752,712 · fundraising $689,951
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $162,300 · program services $120,998 · management and general $20,947 · fundraising $20,355
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $562,610 · program services $407,069 · management and general $93,375 · fundraising $62,166
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $360,792 · program services $249,506 · management and general $68,029 · fundraising $43,257
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11b · Fees: legal
total $19,420 · management and general $19,420
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $38,719 · management and general $38,719
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $43,000 · fundraising $43,000
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $92,564 · management and general $92,564
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11g · Fees: other
total $305,581 · program services $75,447 · management and general $49,768 · fundraising $180,366
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $158,783 · program services $81,584 · management and general $36,846 · fundraising $40,353
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13 · Office expenses
total $533,395 · program services $210,171 · management and general $185,962 · fundraising $137,262
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14 · Information technology
total $113,653 · program services $65,022 · management and general $19,761 · fundraising $28,870
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15 · Royalties
total $90,306 · program services $86,224 · fundraising $4,082
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16 · Occupancy
total $145,603 · program services $128,057 · management and general $9,062 · fundraising $8,484
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17 · Travel
total $257,208 · program services $186,354 · management and general $42,155 · fundraising $28,699
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $4,495 · program services $2,471 · management and general $1,718 · fundraising $306
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20 · Interest
total $296 · management and general $296
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $468,619 · program services $438,952 · management and general $15,322 · fundraising $14,345
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23 · Insurance
total $89,424 · program services $77,490 · management and general $6,163 · fundraising $5,771
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24a · Other expenses: Theater Costs
total $1,015,900 · program services $988,062 · management and general $13,919 · fundraising $13,919
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24b · Other expenses: Production
total $765,001 · program services $708,283 · management and general $52,876 · fundraising $3,842
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24c · Other expenses: Repairs & Maintenance
total $78,765 · program services $71,039 · management and general $3,990 · fundraising $3,736
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24d · Other expenses: Bad Debt
total $50,867 · management and general $50,867
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24e · All other expenses
total $40,017 · program services $18,808 · management and general $8,642 · fundraising $12,567
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $2,000,000 · end of year $1,245,993
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $1,173,633 · end of year $668,368
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $118,597 · end of year $246,896
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $16,708 · end of year $16,584
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $226,188 · end of year $237,727
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$15,982,806
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$6,357,435
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $9,845,090 · end of year $9,625,371
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12 · Investments: other securities
beginning of year $27,829,882 · end of year $29,962,215
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $508,604 · end of year $540,016
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $1,316,834 · end of year $374,126
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19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $1,114,135 · end of year $1,294,002
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $9,957 · end of year $785
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $4,173,642 · end of year $4,311,438
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $35,104,134 · end of year $36,562,819
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
The Minnesota Opera connects people in the shared pursuit of a more empathetic, equitable, joyful life by expanding the circle of musical storytelling.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The Opera was organized for charitable, artistic, and educational purposes.
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In 2024-2025, throughout the Minnesota Opera's 62nd season, the company continued to build on the company's long legacy of producing innovative new work as well as presenting heritage repertoire with tremendous musicality and promising fresh directorial perspectives. In doing so, it routinely demonstrates the art form's ability to cross ideological, generational, and class boundaries, providing a time and place to connect people in pursuit of a more empathetic, equitable, and joyful life. Continuing on Schedule O The season began with Glam Jam, a public benefit concert featuring the Minnesota Opera Orchestra and a roster of guest vocalists providing a snapshot of the breadth and depth of the company's artistic legacy, with work ranging from Mozart and Verdi to Grever, Sondheim, and Heggie. There were 802 attendees at the Glam Jam. The evening also honored community volunteers through the presentation of the Forte Awards for community leadership, philanthropy, and corporate citizenship. The current class of the company's Resident Artist Program complemented the guest artist roster for a spectacular musical evening.The season continued with the first fully staged operatic presentation of the season, Romeo and Juliet by Charles Gounod, with musical direction by Principal Conductor Christopher Franklin, and stage direction by Company Artist Stage Director Margaret Jumonville, based on the original concept staging of Matthew Ozawa. Minnesota Native, tenor Evan LeRoy Johnson made his company debut as Romeo, with frequent guest artist Jasmine Habersham singing Juliet. Recent Resident Artist alumnus Charles H. Eaton returned to sing Mercutio, with bass Adam Lau performing the role of Frere Laurent opposite another Resident Artist graduate, Victoria Vargas as Gertrude. Gounod's retelling of this Shakespeare classic reminds us that we have more in common than we do that separates us, and that humanity's unchecked baser instinct towards tribalism rarely offers a rewarding ending. Attendance at Romeo and Juliet over four performances totaled 5,747 patrons.The company's season continued with the operatic adaptation of the Caldecott-Award Winning book, The Snowy Day. The opera, first commissioned by Houston Grand Opera from composer Joel Thompson and librettist Andrea Pinkney was performed with a brand-new full orchestration commissioned from Thompson for the MN Opera Orchestra. Kelly Kuo served as conductor for this production and Eboni Adams was Director and Choreographer for the show. Raven McMillon, who premiered the role in Houston, returned to interpret the role for these performances, and was joined by Leah Hawkins as Mama, Zulimar Lopez-Hernandez as Amy, and John M'buru as Daddy. An outstanding cast brought the fleeting but indelible, magical memories of childhood to the stage for a multi-generational audience at each performance. Attendance at The Snowy Day over four performances totaled 4,888 patrons.A series of six artist-driven musical events took place during the season, from November through March, under the MNOP+ banner, featuring guest and resident artists to allow audiences a more intimate examination of some of the depth of talent working with the company outside of the opera stage. The Company returned to the Ordway at the end of the performance season with a staging of The Barber of Seville, welcoming Principal Conductor Christopher Franklin back to the podium and Chuck Hudson back to the company as Production Stage Director. Two casts alternated performances of the sparkling Rossini comedy, with Katherine Beck and Kara Morgan sharing the role of Rosina, opposite the Almavivas of Lunga Eric Hallam and David Walton, and two artists as Figaro, Takaoki Onishi and David Wolfe. Attendance at The Barber of Seville over seven performances totaled 8,674 patrons.This marked the first season in some time that the company moved all of its final dress rehearsals to the daytime, allowing an opportunity for students to attend all final rehearsals before the production opened officially to the public. A total of 759 students attended the dress rehearsals. Finally, MN Opera's commitment to New Works remains strong. In preparation for next season's premiere of My Name is Florence, by composer B. E. Boykin and Harrison David Rivers, the company held a public "first listen" of the piece in May. This marked the first time that community members had an opportunity to hear the full orchestration of this new work, and the most complete idea of how the piece will play at its premiere. The work follows the life of prolific American composer Florence Price, who made history as the first Black woman to have a symphony performed by a major U.S. orchestra.Additionally, the company held a piano workshop to help bring The Many Deaths of Laila Starr to life on the opera stage. The work, based on the graphic novel of the name by Ram V., is being created by Kamala Sankaram as composer and Minita Gandhi as librettist. It marks the first time an opera company of our size is adapting a graphic novel as an opera.MN Opera continued to offer opportunities for people of all ages to connect to our art-making outside of performance halls. The company worked with the Ordway to bring back new performances of NOOMA, an interactive opera for babies co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Minnesota Opera, and San Francisco Opera. We also continued the company's middle- and high school training programs with our teaching artists through Youth Opera Circle and Youth Opera Studio, Stories Sing in libraries throughout the Twin Cities, and Opera Connections for Senior Communities to continue lifelong learning and engagement with musical storytelling.The Luminary Arts Center marked its third season with an outstanding array of creative, artistic and inspirational works, allowing artists across many disciplines and communities to unleash their powers of discovery and imagination. The Luminary Arts Center hosted 1,417 artists and 29,519 audience members throughout the year.
Expenses $8,148,638 · Revenue $2,210,325
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Mark Gordon
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4 + 0.1 related
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James Powell
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Rachelle McCord
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
-
Roma Calatayud-Stocks
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
-
Joelle Allen
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Meg Blake
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Kevin Armstrong
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Gayle Fuguitt
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Judith Garcia Galiana
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Christopher Hermann
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Dorothy J Horns MD
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Amy Hoffman
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Philip Isaacson
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Anne Kokayeff MD
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Deborah Jiang-Stein
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Natalie Volin Lehr
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Jeninne McGee
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Fayneese Miller PhD
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Jodi Mooney
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Ben Ollendick
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Kay Ness
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Ivonne Chand O'Neal
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Elizabeth Redleaf
Board Member until March
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Bart Reed
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Criss Ross
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Kimberly Slay
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Mary Schrock
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Ti Chang Taylor
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Emily Tremblay
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Missy Staples Thompson
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
-
Paul Wilson
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
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Jonathan Vessey
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2.5
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Ryan Taylor
President & General Director
- Total calculated
- $275,851
- From this org
- $256,985
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $18,866
- Hours/week
- 35 + 5 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $256,847
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $138
- Deferred
- $7,799
- Nontaxable benefits
- $11,799
- Filer's total
- $276,583
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Janelle Erickson
VP, Finance
- Total calculated
- $141,030
- From this org
- $126,101
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $14,929
- Hours/week
- 40
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Karen Quisenberry
VP, Production
- Total calculated
- $133,860
- From this org
- $120,431
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $13,429
- Hours/week
- 40
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Lani Willis
VP, Advancement
- Total calculated
- $180,686
- From this org
- $175,343
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $5,343
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $175,164
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $179
- Deferred
- $5,258
- Nontaxable benefits
- $852
- Filer's total
- $181,453
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Darius Gillard
VP, Impact
- Total calculated
- $115,490
- From this org
- $104,424
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $11,066
- Hours/week
- 40
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, 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. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 1a · Health or social club dues or initiation fees
- 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
- 3 · Compensation survey or study
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
Answered no
- 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
The filer's explanations (Part III)
- Part I, Line 1a
- The Organization pays social club dues for the President. This is considered a business expense of the Organization since the Organization requires the President to be active at the social club. The social club does not offer memberships at the business level; thus the membership must be held at the individual level.
- Part I, Line 1b
- The Minneapolis Club bill is reviewed by the Director of Board Relations, compared to the President's calendar, and then the bill is verified by the VP Finance and submitted for payment.
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Related organizations on this return
Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
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501(c)(3) · support Arts Partners in Twin Cities · MN
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 28 March 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.5
- Source object
- 202640979349300624
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