- Revenue 2024
- $15,434,434
- Expenses 2024
- $21,001,418
Program services were 81.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A610
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 1526 BROADWAY ST
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
DETROIT OPERA'S MISSION IS TO PRESENT GROUNDBREAKING, GLOBALLY RECOGNIZED OPERA, DANCE, AND MUSICAL THEATER; EXPAND ACCESS TO THE ARTS THROUGH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT; CULTIVATE EMERGING ARTISTS AND YOUNG AUDIENCES THROUGH EDUCATION AND TRAINING; AND SUSTAIN A PERMANENT HOME FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS THROUGH THE PRESERVATION AND OPERATION OF THE HISTORIC DETROIT OPERA HOUSE.
Activities or mission (Part I)
SEE SCHEDULE O FOR ORGANIZATION'S MISSION AND LINE 19 DISCUSSION.
-
MAINSTAGE AND COMMUNITY BASED OPERA, BALLET, AND MUSICAL THEATER PRODUCTIONS. ANNUAL IMPACT IN 2025 THROUGH THESE EVENTS INCLUDED MORE THAN 220,000 INDIVIDUALS.
Expenses $16,124,664 · Revenue $3,757,082
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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS THROUGH A WIDE ARRAY OF EVENTS BOTH IN AND OUTSIDE OF THE DETROIT OPERA HOUSE.EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND ENGAGEMENTS BOTH IN SCHOOLS, COMMUNITY SPACES, AND AT THE DETROIT OPERA HOUSE. OVER 15,000 INDIVIDUALS SERVED THROUGH OUTREACH AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN 2025, ALMOST 10,000 OF THOSE BEING STUDENTS.
Expenses $1,043,351 · Revenue $110,721
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
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.
-
PROF NAOMI ANDRE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MR GENE P BOWEN
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
MR RICHARD A BRODIE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MR ETHAN D DAVIDSON
CHAIRMAN
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
MR KEVIN DENNIS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MS LISA M DICHIERA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR SHAUNA RYDER DIGGS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MR ENRICO DIGIROLAMO
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MS MARIA C DUEY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MRS MARIANNE ENDICOTT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR FERN R ESPINO
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MR PAUL E EWING
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MRS MARY ANN FONTANA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MR BHARAT C GANDHI
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
MR JOHN W INGLE III
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MS MARY L KRAMER
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
MRS BARBARA KRATCHMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MS DENISE J LEWIS
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
MR ARTHUR C LIEBLER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MR DON MANVEL
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
MR DEXTER MASON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MR DONALD MORELOCK
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR ALI MOIIN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MR ALLAN NACHMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MRS ANN NICHOLSON
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
-
2024
- Revenue
- $15,434,434
- Expenses
- $21,001,418
- Contributions
- $7,297,884
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $17,012,919
- Expenses
- $19,517,916
- Contributions
- $9,152,654
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $20,797,237
- Expenses
- $21,017,080
- Contributions
- $11,041,880
- 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
- $20,610,976
- Expenses
- $18,177,656
- Assets (EOY)
- $51,625,944
-
2021 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $9,178,032
- Expenses
- $8,909,778
- Assets (EOY)
- $46,812,293
-
2020 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $12,539,753
- Expenses
- $14,203,243
- Assets (EOY)
- $46,258,681
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $19,092,403
- Expenses
- $17,522,933
- Assets (EOY)
- $48,765,402
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $12,560,900
- Expenses
- $15,945,158
- Assets (EOY)
- $47,857,990
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $16,515,482
- Expenses
- $15,538,195
- Assets (EOY)
- $53,189,004
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
-
2023 ARTS
-
2022 ARTS PROGRAM/GENERAL OPERATIONS
-
2024 ARTS AND CULTURE
-
2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$136,000
2022 TO SUPPORT THE ARTS
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$131,850
2024 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
-
$126,250
2023 TO SUPPORT THE ARTS
-
$122,000
2024 TO SUPPORT THE ARTS
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Taxable family
From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.
Disregarded entities on its 2024 return
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RENTAL OF PARKING GARAGE · MI · income $3,187,749 · assets $29,611,295
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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.