- Revenue 2024
- $315,026
- Expenses 2024
- $335,113
Program services were 73.2% 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
- 6441 ENTERPRISE LN STE 207
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 Opera for the Young is to ignite enthusiasm for opera. The artistic vision in pursuit of that mission is described on Schedule O.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Opera for the young held performances for students and community members throughout the Midwest to further its mission to ignite enthusiasm for opera.
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Opera for the Young brings live, professional opera to elementary school audiences with annual fall and spring tours. Students appear onstage in chorus and cameo roles, performing for their peers alongside professional artists. All productions are fully staged, sung in English, and adapted especially for students each year. Opera For the Young reaches over 75,000 elementary school children throughout the Midwest to ignite enthusiasm for opera. During the 2024-2025 season, Opera for the Young provided 150 performances including Family Opera Day.
Expenses $245,307 · Revenue $104,935
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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Saira Frank
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $77,373
- From this org
- $71,556
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $5,817
- Hours/week
- 40
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Kari Kastenholz
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Alyssa Kubishak
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Emily Whalley
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Kaitlyn Konrardy
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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David Coe
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Cheryl Bensman-Rowe
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Julia Valgento
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $315,026
- Expenses
- $335,113
- Contributions
- $176,502
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $315,355
- Expenses
- $340,471
- Contributions
- $162,399
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $261,385
- Expenses
- $325,453
- Contributions
- $154,185
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $325,341
- Expenses
- $288,263
- Assets (EOY)
- $518,511
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $184,685
- Expenses
- $146,961
- Assets (EOY)
- $547,610
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $230,580
- Expenses
- $277,430
- Assets (EOY)
- $302,461
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $273,465
- Expenses
- $327,575
- Assets (EOY)
- $304,350
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $301,721
- Expenses
- $315,059
- Assets (EOY)
- $344,367
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $312,819
- Expenses
- $316,786
- Assets (EOY)
- $350,838
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $347,140
- Expenses
- $288,772
- Assets (EOY)
- $334,266
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $308,071
- Expenses
- $323,071
- Assets (EOY)
- $279,289
-
2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $299,618
- Expenses
- $285,739
- Assets (EOY)
- $285,971
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $292,772
- Assets (EOY)
- $244,964
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
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$12,000
2022 Support
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$12,000
2023 Support
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$12,000
2024
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$12,000
2025
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$10,000
2024 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST IN THE PLAYHOUSE
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$10,000
2023 FAMILY OPERA DAY FEATURING BARBER OF SEVILLE IN THE PLAYHOUSE
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$10,000
2023 OPERA FOR THE YOUNG'S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
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$10,000
2022 CINDERELLA IN PROMENADE HALL
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$8,000
2023 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
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2023 A: ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.