Amore Opera Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270940187
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3479484588
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,763
- Expenses
- $72,433
- Assets
- $39,991
- Liabilities
- $8,373
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Ying-Chi I (Managing Director & Treasurer)
- Alan Smulen (Secretary)
- Janet Johnson (Board member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Amore Opera Company entertains, educates and nurtures music appreciation in youth, seniors and community members through live performances of classical and overlooked operas. Its performances are affordable to all audience segments. Amore also supports the creative development of artists by providing a venue for singers and musicians without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or age. Amore's overarching goals are to (1) provide complete, well-known 18th and 19th-century operas in a unique, intimate setting; (2) provide training and performance opportunities to amateur and aspiring opera singers; (3) introduce children to opera and cultivate them to become active audience members or performers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Spring 2025 production of Madama Butterfly, fully staged with sets, period costumes, and accompanied by orchestra. Tickets priced at $45 for adult, $40 for senior and minors. Some free tickets were given to senior centers as a way to give back to the community. Estimated artists involved and benefited: 106. Estimated audience members benefited: 840.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 38%; rating input score 38
- Program expense ratio: 52.3%; rating input score 52
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.4%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 38% of revenue deployed · 52.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.