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TULSA OPERA INC

EIN 73-0643311 TULSA, OK

Revenue 2023
$2,206,462
Expenses 2023
$1,863,849

Program services were 85.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A6A0
Classification
2000
Street
1610 S BOULDER AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

TULSA OPERA, INC. OPERATES IN THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA FOR THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF FURTHERING THE APPRECIATION OF MUSIC, PARTICULARLY OPERA, FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC, INCLUDING MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS. IN ADDITION TO THESE PRODUCTIONS, TULSA OPERA CONDUCTS VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS.

  • Mainstage Operas: The Medium, Amahl and the Night Visitors (TYO), I Love You, Now Change, Opera Fizz, Opera Rocks the Country (Face on the Bathroom Floor)Concerts: Sarah Coburn Benerfit Concert & Bibbity, Bobbity, Broadway (TYO)

    Expenses $1,584,273

  • EDUCATIONAL: TULSA YOUTH OPERA, OUTREACH PERFORMANCES, AND RECITALSSchool Tour Productions: Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Girl in the World

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lori Decter Wright

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $128,438
    From this org
    $128,438
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Steve Walton

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leonard Pataki

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tara O'Mahony

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kelly Kirby

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kate Davis

    Develop. Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott Filstrup

    Endowment Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Georgenia Van Tuyl

    Personnel Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Roy Skip Teel

    Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amanda Lovelace

    Legal Counsel

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Phil Armstrong

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Austin Birnie

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tim Cargile

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Phena Hacket

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peggy Helmerich

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Janet Levit

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marlene McAllister

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christine McQueen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anna Norberg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ceretha Terrell-Causey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Martin Wing

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Susan Young

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,206,462
    Expenses
    $1,863,849
    Contributions
    $1,874,078
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,882,533
    Expenses
    $2,556,090
    Contributions
    $1,317,167
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,223,735
    Expenses
    $2,888,253
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,342,709

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,110,348
    Expenses
    $2,107,250
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,435,247

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,976,666
    Expenses
    $2,735,269
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,547,944

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,955,786
    Expenses
    $2,804,263
    Assets (EOY)
    $530,675

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,525,479
    Expenses
    $2,762,200
    Assets (EOY)
    $467,389

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,129,891
    Expenses
    $2,526,755
    Assets (EOY)
    $484,560

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,862,497
    Expenses
    $2,401,158
    Assets (EOY)
    $361,406

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,631,638
    Expenses
    $2,521,939
    Assets (EOY)
    $502,080

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,954,435
    Expenses
    $2,292,078
    Assets (EOY)
    $339,411

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,257,059
    Assets (EOY)
    $664,743

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.