EXPERIMENTS IN OPERA

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A60

Classification

1000

Street

679 W 239TH ST APT 1K

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

• Our season kicked off on November 8 and 9, 2023 with a two-day workshop at the Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) of the new opera Five Ways to Die. This work was commissioned by EiO and featured librettos from Joanie Brittingham, Jason Cady, Britt Hewitt, Marcella Murray and Melisa Tien and new music from composers Jason Cady, Anthony Gatto, Jesse Gelaznik, Seong Ae Kim, Del'Shawn Taylor. The workshop culminated in a full run of the piece for an audience of 57 listeners, including members of the HSA community.

  Expenses $8,000

• On January 13, 2024, we produced the second workshop for the new opera A Prize for Every Player with a libretto by celebrated author A.M. Homes based on her story by the same name. Composer and EiO Founder Aaron Siegel wrote 30 minutes of music for this opera which follows a family of four into a large department store for their weekly Sunday shop. The workshop performance took place in an unused storefront in Chelsea. The creative team, led by director Mark DeChiazza converted the space into a department store and audience members were ushered around the building based on the storyline. 84 audience members attended this thrilling workshop performance.

  Expenses $9,739

• On April 15, 2024, Experiments in Opera partnered with Works & Process for a single night performance of Act 1 of Phil Kline's new opera The Lives and Dreams of Nikola Tesla at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan. The opera featured films by Jim Jarmusch and singing by noted countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. The cast of 9 singers and 8 instrumentalists shared the story of the well known inventor's final days in the Gotham Hotel at the turn of the 20th Century. 276 audience members were in attendance at the performance which was previewed by the San Francisco Classical Voice publication.

  Expenses $20,783 · Grants $15,000

• On May 30, 2024, EiO presented the first workshop of a new opera Crystal's Channel, by EiO Co-Founder Jason Cady at Brooklyn Art Haus in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In addition, we shared the workshop performance of another new opera, Souls Unscreened, written by Alize Francheska Rozsnyai with music by Roger A. Martinez. 82 audience members were in the house for this rousing evening.

  Expenses $4,000

• The new opera Five Ways to Die received its premiere production at HERE in Tribeca from June 27-30, 2024. This production included full staging, costumes and designs and was the featured presentation of the whole season. With contributions from 10 artists, this show was the culmination of two years of work by the EiO Writers' Room, which was established as a way to bring in underrepresented voices to the opera creation process. This premiere production at HERE played for a total audience of 233 listeners over the course of the four-show run.

  Expenses $87,393

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.

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

  $198,071

  Expenses

  $190,027

  Contributions

  $195,402

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $145,824

  Expenses

  $112,140

  Contributions

  $108,613

  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-EZ

  Revenue

  $185,038

  Expenses

  $206,977

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,292

• 2020 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $100,523

  Expenses

  $78,452

  Assets (EOY)

  $25,231

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

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

• TIDES CENTER

  $30,000

  2022 · EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

• JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

  $16,000

  2024 · IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE

• NEW MUSIC USA INC

  $7,000

  2022 · ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT FUND

• OPERA AMERICA INC

  $0

  2024 · COMMISSIONING GRANTS

• OPERA AMERICA INC

  $0

  2023 · NYC SMALL OPERA REGRANTING PROGRAM

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