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ANNAPOLIS OPERA INCORPORATED

EIN 23-7321514 ANNAPOLIS, MD

Revenue 2024
$786,268
Expenses 2024
$935,502

Program services were 75.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A6A0
Classification
1200
Street
801 CHASE ST 304

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

Mission

THE MISSION OF THE ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY IS TO BE A CULTURAL TOUCHSTONE FOR THE COMMUNITY, WHICH DELIGHTS AUDIENCES WITH MUSICAL STORYTELLING ENGAGES NEW AUDIENCES WITH DIVERSE PROGRAMMING THAT INSPIRES CURIOSITY FOR OPERA AND ATTRACTS EMERGING ARTISTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF THE ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY IS TO BE A CULTURAL TOUCHSTONE FOR THE COMMUNITY, WHICH DELIGHTS AUDIENCES WITH MUSICAL STORYTELLING CONTINUED ON PART II, LINE 1

  • ITS PURPOSE IS TO ORGANIZE AND OPERATE AN OPERA COMPANY FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF OPERA AND OTHER STAGE PERFORMANCES AND TO GIVE AND PROMOTE ENTERTAINMENT, EDUCATION, LECTURES, SOCIAL AFFAIRS, AND CELEBRATIONS IN CONNECTION WITH ITS PURSUITS AS AN OPERA COMPANY. IN ADDITION, THE ORGANIZATION WORKS TO DEVELOP THE AUDIENCES OF THE FUTURE THROUGH VARIED TICKET PRICING, FREE PERFORMANCES, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, AND SPECIAL EVENTS. THE ORGANIZATION OFFERS ITS SERVICES TO THE STATE OF MARYLAND, THE SURROUNDING REGION AND STATES WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE COMMUNITIES IN AND AROUND ANNAPOLIS

    Expenses $701,543 · Revenue $192,088

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.

  • KATHY SWEKEL

    GENERAL DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $87,550
    From this org
    $85,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,550
    Hours/week
    40

  • PAULA ABERNETHY

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CARLETTA ALLEN

    IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BETTY AUSTIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GEORGIANNA CROBY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARTIN WASSERMAN

    VICE PRESIDENT, DEVELOPMENT CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK HELLSTERN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THOMAS DEKORNFELD

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FRANK LYMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICHARD KRIMM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MELISSA OSMOND

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KRYSAN MITCHELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LYN SONGY

    GOVERNANCE CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIAM THAM

    GOVERNANCE CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CARY MELNYK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRIS NELSON

    EDUCATION OUTREACH CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID STERN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GLEN ROTNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JON TETER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $786,268
    Expenses
    $935,502
    Contributions
    $565,880
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,137,040
    Expenses
    $922,891
    Contributions
    $951,429
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $870,125
    Expenses
    $1,010,632
    Contributions
    $657,924
    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
    $1,519,671
    Expenses
    $735,376
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,153,801

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $695,627
    Expenses
    $351,032
    Assets (EOY)
    $527,517

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $486,358
    Expenses
    $488,173
    Assets (EOY)
    $186,007

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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.