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SAN DIEGO OPERA ASSOCIATION

EIN 95-6044429 SAN DIEGO, CA

Revenue 2023
$6,659,097
Expenses 2023
$7,807,385

Program services were 76.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A6A0
Classification
3000
Street
233 A ST STE 500

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

Mission

MISSION: THE MISSION OF SAN DIEGO OPERA IS TO DELIVER EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCES AND EXCITING, ACCESSIBLE PROGRAMS TO DIVERSE AUDIENCES, FOCUSING ON COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS, AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE AND EXPRESSIVE POWER OF THE HUMAN VOICE.AS PART OF ITS MISSION TO MAKE OPERA ACCESSIBLE TO ALL, SAN DIEGO OPERA OFFERS EXTENSIVE OPERA EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS, WHICH SERVE ADULTS AND SCHOOL CHILDREN IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY AND NORTHERN MEXICO, WITH A SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN.VISION: THE SAN DIEGO OPERA WILL BE RECOGNIZED INTERNATIONALLY AS A LEADING EXAMPLE OF ADAPTABILITY, INNOVATION, AND SUSTAINABILITY, PROMOTING DIVERSITY ON STAGE, IN OUR REPERTOIRE, AND IN OUR STAFF AND LEADERSHIP, WITH A COMMITMENT TO THE WORLD.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF SAN DIEGO OPERA IS TO DELIVER EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCES AND EXCITING, ACCESSIBLE PROGRAMS TO DIVERSE AUDIENCES, FOCUSING ON COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE AND EXPRESSIVE POWER OF THE HUMAN VOICE. AS PART OF ITS MISSION TO MAKE OPERA ACCESSIBLE TO ALL, SAN DIEGO OPERA OFFERS EXTENSIVE OPERA EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS, WHICH SERVE ADULTS AND SCHOOL CHILDREN IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY AND NORTHERN MEXICO, WITH A SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN.

  • DURING THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2024, SAN DIEGO OPERA PRODUCED THREE MAIN STAGE PRODUCTIONS AT SAN DIEGO CIVIC THEATER COUPLED WITH TWO CONCERTS AT BALBOA THEATRE.

    Expenses $5,692,969 · Revenue $1,918,207

  • AS PART OF ITS MISSION TO MAKE OPERA ACCESSIBLE TO ALL, SAN DIEGO OPERA OFFERS EXTENSIVE OPERA EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS, WHICH SERVE ADULTS AND SCHOOL CHILDREN IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY AND NORTHERN MEXICO, WITH A SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN.

    Expenses $265,237 · Revenue $94,128

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.

  • DAVID BENNETT

    GENERAL DIR

    Total calculated
    $330,478
    From this org
    $311,154
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,324
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $311,154
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,324
    Filer's total
    $330,478

  • JEANNIE POSNER

    CFO/COO (FMR)

    Total calculated
    $258,942
    From this org
    $241,788
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,154
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $241,788
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,154
    Filer's total
    $258,942

  • BRUCE STASYNA

    RES. CONDUCTOR

    Total calculated
    $160,740
    From this org
    $149,075
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,665
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $149,075
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,665
    Filer's total
    $160,740

  • MATTHEW GRABER

    CHIEF MKTG & COM

    Total calculated
    $117,644
    From this org
    $113,700
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,944
    Hours/week
    40

  • JOAN FOSTER

    PRODUCTION DIR

    Total calculated
    $117,268
    From this org
    $103,815
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,453
    Hours/week
    40

  • PETER SHAVITZ

    CDO

    Total calculated
    $112,863
    From this org
    $108,539
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,324
    Hours/week
    40

  • ROBERT H KAPLAN PHD

    VP FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • SARAH B MARSH-REBELO GG

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • JANET WHITE MA MBA CSCI

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • BRETT MCCLAIN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VERONICA LEFF MAM

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LINDA SPUCK

    Executive VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • CLARICE PERKINS

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • JOANN CLARK

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KARL HOSTETLER MD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOAN HENKELMANN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BEAU HAUGH

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CAROL LAZIER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RONALD G LEONARDI PHD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOSEPH P MARTINEZ

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • COREEN G PETTI

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRETT MACLEOD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROBIN ALLGREN MD PHD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JASON PAGUIO

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GLORIA M SHURMAN PHD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,659,097
    Expenses
    $7,807,385
    Contributions
    $4,249,074
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,236,335
    Expenses
    $11,104,070
    Contributions
    $4,425,749
    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

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,586,984
    Expenses
    $7,788,093
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,926,315

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,702,781
    Expenses
    $6,244,510
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,260,111

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,117,025
    Expenses
    $6,404,013
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,356,852

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,631,760
    Expenses
    $9,820,188
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,969,923

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,056,450
    Expenses
    $10,077,440
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,828,995

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,385,383
    Expenses
    $11,467,876
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,602,550

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

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 2023 return

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • BENNETT DIRECT INC.

    $23,675 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    $17,563 to charity

  • BENNETT DIRECT INC.

    $16,250 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    $12,815 to charity

  • BENNETT DIRECT INC.

    $3,300 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    $2,764 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.