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KNOXVILLE OPERA COMPANY

EIN 62-1015262 KNOXVILLE, TN

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Revenue 2024
$1,693,522
Expenses 2024
$2,023,154

Program services were 78.2% 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
612 E DEPOT 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 · 2024

Mission

PERFORMANCE OF OPERA AND MUSICALS

Activities or mission (Part I)

PERFORMANCE OF OPERA AND MUSICALS.

  • KNOXVILLE OPERA IS ENGAGED IN THE PERFORMANCE OF OPERA AND MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS IN THE EAST TENNESSEE AREA. EXPENSES WERE INCURRED RELATING TO EIGHT PERFORMANCES OF THREE MAJOR PRODUCTIONS AND 50+ COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EVENTS WHICH WERE COMPLETED IN THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2025.

    Expenses $1,582,472 · Grants $232,250 · Revenue $760,451

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Jason Hardy

    GEN DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $114,734
    From this org
    $104,399
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,335
    Hours/week
    40
  • Allison Easterday Alexander

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Emily Anderson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Stephen Backiel

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jerrold Becker

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bedros Bozdogan

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Holden Caperton

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Katy Davis

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Faith Ferguson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark Hill

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Charles James

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sheryl Linck

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sheena McCall

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kimberly Grande MD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeanie Melton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Melissa Midyett

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Cathy Dodge Miller

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Julia Mullaney

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jeff Pappas

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Frank Rosamond

    PAST CHAIRPE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Zane Scarlett

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jan Simpson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kim Trent

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mary Walker

    BOARD MEMBER

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,693,522
    Expenses
    $2,023,154
    Contributions
    $706,944
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,948,539
    Expenses
    $1,884,319
    Contributions
    $1,043,975
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,617,301
    Expenses
    $1,590,004
    Contributions
    $977,940
    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
    $1,430,096
    Expenses
    $1,253,435
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,743,174
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $934,550
    Expenses
    $643,859
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,522,312
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,135,101
    Expenses
    $1,023,353
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,270,929
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,499,599
    Expenses
    $1,481,826
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,185,624
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,739,074
    Expenses
    $1,681,271
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,138,321
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,791,004
    Expenses
    $1,564,890
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,049,571
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,677,472
    Expenses
    $1,538,693
    Assets (EOY)
    $834,491
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,554,671
    Expenses
    $1,381,606
    Assets (EOY)
    $686,087
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,373,796
    Expenses
    $1,286,846
    Assets (EOY)
    $634,583
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,212,176
    Assets (EOY)
    $495,662

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

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.