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Filing year 2024

THE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania·EIN 23-1352001·NTEE A6E0 · Arts, Culture & Humanities·3
Total revenue
$4.7M
Total assets
$54.2M
Total expenses
$4.5M
Reported officers
36
Mission

THE MISSION OF THE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS (AVA) IS TO BE THE WORLD'S PREMIER INSTITUTION FOR TRAINING YOUNG ARTISTS AS INTERNATIONAL OPERA SINGERS. THROUGH RIGOROUS INSTRUCTION AND COACHING, AND BY PRESENTATIONS OF RESIDENT ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD IN FULLY

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 4 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

President/artistic Director
$190k
$205k
Base
$172k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$10k
Base
$147k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$10k
Music Director
highest compensated employee
$162k
$175k
Base
$154k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$424
Dir. Institutional Advancement
highest compensated employee
$111k
$120k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 32 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Arts, Culture & Humanities

Fell 10%
over 3 years

From $212k in 2021 to $190k in 2024.

$212k
2021
$214k
2022
$188k
2023
$190k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 23% in real terms$266k to $205k

Estimated with Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

THE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS reported revenue and expenses across 4 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$5.1M
$4.2M
2021
$5.3M
$4.8M
2022
$6.3M
$4.5M
2023
$4.7M
$4.5M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Arts, Culture & Humanities executives earn in Pennsylvania

Comparable arts, culture & humanities organizations in Pennsylvania pay their highest-earning executive a median of $70,000.

25th percentile
$31k
Median
$70,000
75th percentile
$109k
90th percentile
$180k

These are arts, culture & humanities sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 178 organizations across 178 filings (2022 – 2023).

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