METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A6A0

Classification

1200

Street

30 LINCOLN CENTER PLAZA

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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

• ASSOCIATE MUSICIANS METROPOLITAN OPERA INC

  EIN 26-3967543

• METROPOLITAN OPERA CLUB INC

  EIN 13-1572247

Mission and programs · 2024

• PREPARATION AND PRESENTATION OF OPERA PERFORMANCES AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE AS WELL AS SYMPHONIC REPERTORY AT CARNEGIE HALL. ALSO INCLUDES OUTDOOR PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS THROUGHOUT PARKS IN NEW YORK CITY. PARKS CONCERTS ARE PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC AT NO CHARGE. THE ATTENDANCE OF THESE PERFORMANCES IS APPROXIMATELY FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN THOUSAND PEOPLE PER SEASON. INCLUDED IN PERFORMANCE REVENUE IS $1.5 MILLION IN CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE RUSH DISCOUNT TICKETS PROGRAM AND $0.4 MILLION RELATED TO IN-KIND TICKET DONATIONS.

  Expenses $236,512,524 · Revenue $74,117,036

• MEDIA PRESENTATION OF OPERA PERFORMANCES, LIVE PERFORMANCES BROADCAST IN HIGH DEFINITION TO MOVIE THEATERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL LIVE AUDIO TRANSMISSIONS OF PERFORMANCES ON RADIO AND THE MET'S WEBSITE. PAST PERFORMANCES BROADCAST ON TELEVISION, RADIO STATIONS AND THE INTERNET GLOBALLY. MEDIA PRESENTATIONS REACHED AN AUDIENCE OF APPROXIMATELY 10 MILLION.

  Expenses $23,021,870 · Revenue $16,787,536

• PRESENTATION OF EVENTS OTHER THAN OPERA WHERE THE MET EITHER PRESENTS OR CO-PRESENTS THE EVENT OR LICENSES THE OPERA HOUSE TO THIRD PARTIES. THE ATTENDANCE AT THESE EVENTS, PRINCIPALLY BALLET, WAS APPROXIMATELY 140,000 PEOPLE PER YEAR.

  Expenses $10,077,573 · Revenue $9,378,918

• OTHER PROGRAM ACTIVITIES INCLUDING MERCHANDISING, DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG ARTISTS THROUGH THE LINDEMANN YOUNG ARTIST DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, AND THE LAFFONT COMPETITION AND CONCERT.

  Expenses $7,294,879 · Grants $705,350 · Revenue $2,180,218

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.

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

  $304,122,827

  Expenses

  $325,333,793

  Contributions

  $179,783,313

  Grants paid

  $705,350

• 2023

  Revenue

  $283,987,551

  Expenses

  $330,977,035

  Contributions

  $152,619,908

  Grants paid

  $662,690

• 2022

  Revenue

  $303,083,984

  Expenses

  $332,251,527

  Contributions

  $185,106,997

  Grants paid

  $661,767

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

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 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

  $281,587,346

  Expenses

  $315,097,144

  Assets (EOY)

  $536,228,393

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $163,754,215

  Expenses

  $131,985,656

  Assets (EOY)

  $578,246,419

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $294,500,510

  Expenses

  $263,340,363

  Assets (EOY)

  $482,752,126

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $307,487,383

  Expenses

  $313,427,156

  Assets (EOY)

  $452,397,815

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $312,500,724

  Expenses

  $294,826,839

  Assets (EOY)

  $441,976,991

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

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $18,124,900

  2024 · INTERNATIONAL

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $10,783,306

  2022 · CULTURE & ARTS

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $10,085,216

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

• AMERICAN GIFT FUND

  $6,400,000

  2022 · OPERATIONS

• METROPOLITAN OPERA CENTENNIAL FUND ENDOWMENT TRUST

  $5,498,000

  2023 · SUPPORT THE ACTIVITIES OF THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION, INC.

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $5,184,071

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• METROPOLITAN OPERA CENTENNIAL FUND ENDOWMENT TRUST

  $4,268,000

  2022 · SUPPORT THE ACTIVITIES OF THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION, INC.

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $3,957,409

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• METROPOLITAN OPERA CENTENNIAL FUND ENDOWMENT TRUST

  $3,446,823

  2024 · (See Statement)

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $3,441,150

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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.

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.

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