Seattle Opera
Seattle, WA
- UEI
- N4BPN5A67QN1
- CAGE
- 4JF55
- Primary NAICS
- Not on record
- SAM.gov registration
- Active through
Company facts
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- Corporate Entity (Tax Exempt)
- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- 363 Mercer St, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
- Website
- seattleopera.org
- Founded
- 1963
- Employees
- 51-250
- Estimated annual revenue
- $10M-$50M
- Industry
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- Consumer Discretionary
- Media
- Movies & Entertainment
- SIC code
- 79 Amusement & Recreation Services
- Profiles
Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .
Grant awards
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
Grant subawards
| Prime recipient | Prime award | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Military Department, Washington State | 4481DRWAP00000001 | $8,638 | |
| Military Department, Washington State | 4481DRWAP00000001 | $31,348 | |
| Military Department, Washington State | 4481DRWAP00000001 | $238,169 |
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About the company
Seattle Opera, a nonprofit arts organization based in Seattle, Washington, receives federal funding as a grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), operating exclusively in the grant space with no prime or subcontractor federal contracts. The organization does not compete under federal contracting set-asides and holds no IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs.
Seattle Opera's federal footprint is concentrated in the National Endowment for the Arts, which issued 23 of the 26 awards in the source data (88% of the prime recipient base). NEA funding supports specific opera productions and related initiatives: a $1 million-plus grant for a Carmen production with an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2026; a 2024 grant to support X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, a new production by composer Anthony Davis and librettist Thulani Davis; a 2023 award for the world premiere of A Thousand Splendid Suns by composer Sheila Silver and librettist Stephen Kitsakos; and a 2022 grant for the Jane Lang Davis Creation Lab, a workforce-development initiative designed to cultivate the next generation of opera composers and librettists in Washington State. Seattle Opera also received three sub-award allocations from FEMA through the Washington State Military Department between February and October 2023, all related to emergency protective measures during the COVID-19 pandemic response (FEMA disaster declaration FEMA-4481-DR-WA).
Activity has been intermittent. The source covers awards from 2007 onward, with an average of roughly one award per year over the past five years, spiking to four awards in 2023 before declining to one award each in 2024 and 2026. The combined dollars obligated across all 26 awards totals $23 million. Seattle Opera's grant work is not competitively procured; it operates in the cultural-nonprofit funding space where the NEA issues project grants to support specific artistic productions and institutional capacity-building. The organization does not hold sub-contracts under federal primes and does not participate in federal contracting vehicles or set-aside programs. For federal contractors, Seattle Opera represents a nonprofit cultural institution that receives appropriated funding for arts programming, not a commercial services provider or a procurement-eligible subcontractor.
Quick answers
Is Seattle Opera registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. Seattle Opera's SAM.gov registration is active through March 2, 2027.
What is Seattle Opera's most recent federal award?
Seattle Opera's most recent federal grant award is To support a production of carmen (19455203626), from National Endowment for the Arts, on January 1, 2026.
On GovTribe
See Seattle Opera's full federal record
- Federal grant awards
- Funding analysis by agency, NAICS and set-aside
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