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OPERA CAROLINA

EIN 56-6019660 CHARLOTTE, NC

Revenue 2022
$2,920,365
Expenses 2022
$3,265,649

Program services were 66.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A6A0
Classification
1000
Street
1600 ELIZABETH 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 · 2022

Mission

TO INSPIRE AND ENTERTAIN THE REGION'S DIVERSE COMMUNITY THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF EXCELLENT OPERA, OPERETTA, MUSIC THEATRE, EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS THAT ELEVATE THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE CAROLINAS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO INSPIRE AND ENTERTAIN THE REGION'S DIVERSE COMMUNITY THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF EXCELLENT OPERA, OPERETTA, MUSIC THEATRE, EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS THAT ELEVATE THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE CAROLINAS. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES INCLUDE THE PRESENTATION OF THREE MAIN STAGE OPERAS AND A RANGE OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INCLUDING IN-SCHOOL PERFORMANCES AND WORKSHOPS, STUDENT NIGHTS AT MAIN STAGE PERFORMANCES AND PERFORMANCES IN REMOTE COMMUNITIES IN NC.

  • THE PRIMARY PROGRAM SERVICE ACTIVITY IS THAT OF MAIN STAGE PRODUCTIONSAND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES. OUR MAIN STAGE SHOWCASED MULTIPLEPRODUCTIONS WHICH FULFILLED OUR EXEMPT PURPOSE OF PROVIDING ACCESSIBILITY TO AND DEVELOPING KNOWLEDGE OF PROFESSIONAL OPERA AND ELEVATING THE QUALITY OF CULTURAL LIFE IN THE CAROLINAS.

    Expenses $2,072,776 · Revenue $719,092

  • THE EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDE OUR OPERA EXPRESS TOURING ARM WHICH ENGAGES OVER 20,000 CHILDREN BY MEANS OF MULTIPLE PERFORMANCES ACROSS THE STATES OF NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND GEORGIA; STUDENT NIGHT AT THE OPERA WHICH IS HELD DURING DRESS REHEARSAL FOR EACH MAIN STAGE PRODUCTION AND IN WHICH STUDENTS AND ADULTS PARTICIPATED, AND OPERA CAROLINA ACADEMY WHICH PROVIDES ACCESS TO MUSIC INSTRUCTION, MUSIC-DRAMA INSTRUCTION, AND AGE APPROPRIATE VOCAL INSTRUCTION FOR STUDENTS OF ALL AGES IN AN ARTISTIC ATMOSPHERE WHICH EMPHASIZES CLASSICAL MUSIC WHILE HONORING THE VALUE OF MUSICAL EXPRESSION IN ALL GENRES.

    Expenses $107,439 · Revenue $37,273

As filed on the 2022 return.

Officers and directors · 2022

As listed in Part VII of the 2022 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • ANN REED

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ARLENE FEREBEE

    IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BARBARA HOLT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CAROL KENDRICK

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLOTTE PAYNE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTPHER MARDANY

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTOPHER MAURER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CURTIS WALLS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DARYL HOLLNAGEL

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELIZABETH TRENARY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EMILY SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FRANK BONCIMINO

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES MEENA

    ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $120,502
    From this org
    $120,502
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

  • JULIE BERNARD

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KI-HYUN CHUN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LESLIE PALIYENKO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARCUS MARTIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARGARET FARNHAM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MATTHEW MOORE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE GAITHER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL KARDOUS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARGARET PEG POVINELLI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PHYLLIS ZANGHI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NATALIE BROWN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROB BOISVERT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,920,365
    Expenses
    $3,265,649
    Contributions
    $1,909,200
    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
    $3,080,545
    Expenses
    $2,901,455
    Assets (EOY)
    $515,766

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,727,592
    Expenses
    $1,631,545
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,027,140

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,784,577
    Expenses
    $2,899,974
    Assets (EOY)
    $750,676

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,647,251
    Expenses
    $3,165,477
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,796,636

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,649,886
    Expenses
    $4,111,665
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,004,377

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,506,564
    Expenses
    $3,391,591
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,226,753

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,807,917
    Expenses
    $3,145,094
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,450,580

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,076,189
    Expenses
    $3,253,242
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,927,217

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,977,497
    Expenses
    $2,999,156
    Assets (EOY)
    $819,965

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,758,644
    Assets (EOY)
    $652,024

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 2022 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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2022, the newest we have parsed for this organization.