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WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA

EIN 53-0237707 WASHINGTON, DC

Largest nonprofits in District of Columbia

Revenue 2024
$8,977,357
Expenses 2024
$264,341

Program services were 100.0% 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
6955 WILLOW ST NW 377

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

DURING THE REPORTING PERIOD, THE MISSION OF THE WNO WAS AS FOLLOWS: WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA, AS A LEADER IN OPERA AND A FLAGSHIP OF THE KENNEDY CENTER, SEEKS TO INSPIRE, CONNECT, AND ENRICH OUR COMMUNITY, SHAPE THE FUTURE OF OPERA, AND ILLUMINATE THE AMERICAN AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE. WE TELL TIMELESS STORIES WITH PROGRAMMING THAT EXCITES, ENTERTAINS, ENGAGES, AND EDUCATES. WE ARE COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY AND BALANCE - PRESENTING CLASSIC, CONTEMPORARY, AND AMERICAN WORKS - TO BROAD LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCES.

  • THE WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA PROVIDED SEVERAL GRANTS TO THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS TO SUPPORT ITS WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA PROGRAM AND PROGRAM ACTIVITIES.

    Expenses $264,341 · Grants $264,341

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.

  • Mr Andy Pharoah

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr Edward Asher

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr Eric Jon Larsen

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr William Cox

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Ms Jacqueline Badger Mars

    CHAIRMAN EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • Amb Selwa S Roosevelt

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dr Helena Rodbard

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dr Mona Siddiqui

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dr Omar Baker

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr Alan Fleischmann

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr Antonio Reynolds

    TRUSTEE (AS OF 05/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr Chip Kahn

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr Daniel L Glaser

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr Derrick Mashore

    TRUSTEE (AS OF 05/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr Eric Kadel Jr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr Greg Gallopoulos

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr Ian M Jefferson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr James A Feldman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr Jeffrey P Cunard

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr John Malcolm

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr Kenneth R Feinberg

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr Kent Knutson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr Robert B Downing

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr Robert Nelson

    TRUSTEE (THRU 05/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mr Scott Plumridge

    TRUSTEE (THRU 10/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

The first 25 listed. 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
    $8,977,357
    Expenses
    $264,341
    Contributions
    $8,822,845
    Grants paid
    $264,341
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $450,793
    Expenses
    $450,793
    Contributions
    $450,793
    Grants paid
    $450,793
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $471,726
    Expenses
    $471,726
    Contributions
    $471,726
    Grants paid
    $471,726

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
    $529,690
    Expenses
    $529,690
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,000

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $362,862
    Expenses
    $362,862
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $396,397
    Expenses
    $396,397
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

  • 2009 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $29,923,919
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,541,808

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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

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