MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A6A0

Classification

2000

Street

601 VAN NESS AVENUE STE Q/R

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

• THE MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM:THE MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM IS A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED SUMMER TRAINING PROGRAM THAT SELECTS APPROXIMATELY 30 EMERGING OPERA ARTISTS FROM OVER 1,300 APPLICANTS AGED 20 TO 34 THROUGH A COMPETITIVE AUDITION PROCESS. THE 9- TO 12-WEEK PROGRAM PREPARES PARTICIPANTS FOR SUSTAINABLE CAREERS THROUGH VOCAL, DRAMATIC, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING. MEROLA ENJOYS A UNIQUE PARTNERSHIP WITH SAN FRANCISCO OPERA, WHERE MANY ALUMNI ADVANCE TO THE PRESTIGIOUS ADLER FELLOWSHIP, AND OTHERS JOIN LEADING OPERA COMPANIES AND TRAINING PROGRAMS NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY. PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, TRAINING, AND A WEEKLY STIPEND AT NO COST.

  Expenses $2,597,224 · Grants $154,523 · Revenue $167,776

• THE PROGRAM INTEGRATES TRAINING IN VOCAL STYLE, ROLE INTERPRETATION, ACTING, STAGECRAFT, MOVEMENT, CONDUCTING, PROMPTING, LANGUAGES, AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT, WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON HOLISTIC ARTIST PREPARATION. MASTER CLASSES LED BY INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED FACULTY OFFER DEEP INSIGHT INTO THE CRAFT, WHILE PUBLIC PERFORMANCESINCLUDING FULLY STAGED OPERAS, A SCENES PROGRAM, AND THE MEROLA GRAND FINALEALLOW PARTICIPANTS TO SHOWCASE THEIR GROWTH AND TALENT TO BROAD AUDIENCES.

• MEROLA PROVIDES THIS TRAINING ENTIRELY FREE TO PARTICIPANTS, FUNDED THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF INDIVIDUAL DONORS, FOUNDATIONS, AND GRANTING AGENCIES. THE PROGRAM EQUIPS ARTISTS WITH A STRONG PROFESSIONAL FOUNDATION AND A CLEAR PATH FORWARD, SUPPORTING THEIR CAREER TRAJECTORIES THROUGH POST-PROGRAM GRANTS, MENTORSHIP, AND A GLOBAL ALUMNI NETWORK.

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.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $9,515,179

  Expenses

  $3,961,616

  Contributions

  $1,704,203

  Grants paid

  $154,523

• 2023

  Revenue

  $7,832,495

  Expenses

  $3,997,886

  Contributions

  $2,401,790

  Grants paid

  $164,894

• 2022

  Revenue

  $5,285,149

  Expenses

  $3,756,624

  Contributions

  $3,530,374

  Grants paid

  $187,553

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

  $3,463,701

  Expenses

  $3,926,241

  Assets (EOY)

  $35,714,221

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,981,878

  Expenses

  $3,227,194

  Assets (EOY)

  $44,068,195

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,940,392

  Expenses

  $2,326,130

  Assets (EOY)

  $37,901,146

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,688,885

  Expenses

  $4,070,188

  Assets (EOY)

  $31,883,881

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,560,025

  Expenses

  $3,232,531

  Assets (EOY)

  $31,344,735

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,560,025

  Expenses

  $3,232,531

  Assets (EOY)

  $31,344,735

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,254,081

  Expenses

  $3,244,658

  Assets (EOY)

  $29,476,034

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,294,081

  Expenses

  $3,244,658

  Assets (EOY)

  $29,476,034

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,524,010

  Expenses

  $2,978,017

  Assets (EOY)

  $27,307,843

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,179,291

  Expenses

  $2,913,252

  Assets (EOY)

  $26,676,717

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

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $80,786

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $74,960

  2024 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

  $60,631

  2022 · ADVISED - FOR GENERAL SUPPORT. ADVISED - FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT.

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $56,850

  2023 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

  $54,573

  2023 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT. FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.

• SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

  $52,730

  2024 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $47,130

  2022 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $34,160

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $27,500

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  2023 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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