- Revenue 2024
- $1,150,882
- Expenses 2024
- $1,511,048
Program services were 78.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A6A0
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 216 S COOPER ST
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 · 2024
Mission
THE MISSION OF OPERA MEMPHIS IS TO ENTERTAIN AND INSPIRE THE PEOPLE OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH THROUGH THE ART OF OPERA.
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OUR MASTERWORKS PRODUCTIONS FOCUS ON WORKS FROM THE TRADITIONAL OPERATIC CANON. THEY FEATURE WORLD-CLASS PERFORMERS, THE MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, AND OTHER LOCAL PERFORMING ARTS GROUPS.OUR KEYNOTE PROGRAM IS 30 DAYS OF OPERA, A MONTH-LONG EVENT THAT INTRODUCES OPERA INTO THE EVERYDAY ROUTINES OF MEMPHIANS. EACH SEASON, #30DAYS PRESENTS OVER 50 FREE EVENTS IN OVER 40 LOCATIONS, REACHING AN AVERAGE OF OVER 30,000 INDIVIDUALS, WITH PERFORMANCES IN EVERY ZIP CODE IN MEMPHIS.WE ALSO OFFER A VARIETY OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, WHICH IN PRE-PANDEMIC YEARS REACHED OVER 17,000 CHILDREN AND ADULTS ANNUALLY. THESE ACTIVITIES, WHICH ARE SLOWLY BEING RESTORED POST-PANDEMIC INCLUDE PERFORMANCES AT MORE THAN 100 LOCAL SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS. THE HANDORF COMPANY ARTIST PROGRAM PROVIDES CAREER-BUILDING EXPERIENCES TO EMERGING SINGERS THROUGH ROBUST PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES AND PERSONALIZED GOALS WHILE PROVIDING THE TOOLS AND ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET NECESSARY FOR CITIZEN-ARTISTS TO CHAMPION OPERA IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
Expenses $1,182,646 · Revenue $217,429
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
-
EMILY STRACK
BOARD CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
-
DANIEL BASTARDO BLANCO
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
-
CHRIS CREECH
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
-
MICHAEL DIVOKY
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
-
DR CHARLES HANDORF
SERGEANT-AT-ARMS
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
-
DANIEL ANGLIN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BETHANIA BARAY-HARRISON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR NEAL S BECKFORD
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR NANCY A CHASE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
AZRA DANIEL
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR VERONICA ENGLE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
THOMAS ESSMYER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR WILLIAM FALVEY
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JUAN FUENTES
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JEREMY GARVER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CHARLES HIGGINS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR ASA KARLSTROM
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ANNTONIA MAGRUDER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JEANIE MERCER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ANGELO RAPAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ALISON TURNER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LAKSHMI VIJAYAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KEITH WILLIAMS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
EDWARD CANTY
GENERAL DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $118,134
- From this org
- $107,941
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $10,193
- Hours/week
- 50
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
-
2024
- Revenue
- $1,150,882
- Expenses
- $1,511,048
- Contributions
- $908,108
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $952,508
- Expenses
- $1,442,973
- Contributions
- $781,383
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $1,091,881
- Expenses
- $1,043,887
- Contributions
- $966,280
- 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
-
2024 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2023 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,438,726
- Expenses
- $1,252,242
- Assets (EOY)
- $5,037,117
-
2021 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,458,183
- Expenses
- $980,192
- Assets (EOY)
- $5,854,981
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $880,971
- Expenses
- $1,318,175
- Assets (EOY)
- $5,129,122
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,124,575
- Expenses
- $1,542,537
- Assets (EOY)
- $5,666,832
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $946,471
- Expenses
- $1,623,169
- Assets (EOY)
- $6,343,322
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,776,465
- Expenses
- $1,705,149
- Assets (EOY)
- $7,138,661
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,641,084
- Expenses
- $1,552,833
- Assets (EOY)
- $7,084,479
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
-
2024 General Operating Support
-
2022 GENERAL OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
-
2023 General Operating Support
-
2022 General Operating Support
-
$100,000
2022 OPERATING SUPPORT & ENHANCEMENT
-
$82,750
2024 OPERATING SUPPORT
-
$80,200
2023 OPERATING SUPPORT
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$64,791
2024 ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$47,700
2023 ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES
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 2024 return
-
OPERA MEMPHIS ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION
501(C)3 · SUPPORTS OPERA MEMPHIS INC · TN
Declared as related by
-
ARTHUR F AND ALICE E ADAMS SUPPORTING FOUNDATION
On its 2025 return
-
OPERA MEMPHIS ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION
On its 2024 return
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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.