Art City Opera
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934486312
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 9252005670
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,321
- Expenses
- $1,208
- Assets
- $6,213
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rebecca Sacks (President & Artistic Director)
- Elizabeth Clarkin-Breslin (Vice President & Director of Marketing and Development)
People named in this filing
- Rebecca Sacks (President & Artistic Director)
- Elizabeth Clarkin-Breslin (Vice President & Director of Marketing and Development)
- Olivia Broderick (Secretary & Director of Community and Institutional Partnerships)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Created by singers for singers, Art City Opera is a revolutionary arts organization dedicated to providing critical performance, professional development, and community engagement opportunities through the curation of operatic experiences that invite reflection and conversation about contemporary social issues. We foster community and solidarity among artists and audiences through community engagement, fully staged opera productions, interdisciplinary recitals, and workshops for early-career singers.
What it reported doing in 2025
Began planning and casting for first fully staged operatic performance
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% 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 and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 16.5%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 99.3%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 83.5%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.14; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 16.5% of revenue deployed · 99.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.