- Revenue 2024
- $61,075
- Expenses 2024
- $23,962
Program services were 130.5% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A6A
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 178 COLUMBUS AVENUE NO 23-1522
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
Primary exempt purpose
To promote, mentor careers in opera, classical and spiritual repertoire.
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We produce concerts, performances, the Biennial Benjamin Matthews Vocal Competition, masterclasses, educational outreach and mentorship in the industry.
Expenses $31,260
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.
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Eldric Bashful
General Director
- Total calculated
- $17,900
- Compensation
- $17,900
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 35
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Marquita Lister
Artistic Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Reggie Allen
Board Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Louise Toppin
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Dr Muhammad Hatim
Archivist, Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $61,075
- Expenses
- $23,962
- Contributions
- $60,581
- Grants paid
- not reported
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2025
- Tax period
- 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026
- Principal officer
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Eldric Bashful
- Mailing address
- 178 Columbus Avenue No 23-1522New York NY 10023
- Website
- www.operaebony.org
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
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
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2024 COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS
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2024 COMMISSIONING GRANTS
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2023 NYC SMALL OPERA REGRANTING PROGRAM
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
- Exemption revoked 15 November 2019, reinstated 15 November 2019.
- Exemption revoked 15 November 2010, reinstated 15 November 2010.
Publication 78
Listed as of 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.