· Public charity
Arts Action Alliance Foundation Dba Clackamas County Arts Alliance
Working to support, develop and promote access to the arts.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $37,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $144,115 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $107,115 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHAPEL THEATER LLC | $8,500 |
| NEW CENTURY PLAYERS | $8,000 |
| WILLAMETTE FALLS SYMPHONY | $7,500 |
| REX PUTNAM HIGH SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| TILIKUM CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 39% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.
Promotion of community-centered theatrical arts and entertainment
Provide support for operation of Performing Arts Center located at 588 16th St, Astoria OR 97103
Organization dedicated to the advancement of The Performing Arts
The mission for the central oregon center for the arts is to champion an inclusive, vibrant center for the arts that brings transformative and diverse cultural performances and experiences to central oregon during all seasons
Theater arts and education to rural OR
Providing theatrical experience via productions to the general public and providing theatrical workshop opportunities to the youth and young adults in our area. WWCA is dedicated to presenting, preserving, and promoting the arts for the…
Produced 4 on-stage community theater productions, continued to maintain the historic Howells Opera House
The Mount Baker Theatre Organization enriches our region's culture through dynamic performances and arts education, inspiring engagement in the community, and stewardship of a national historic treasure.
Community Theatre
Provide musical and artistic performances in rural North Idaho, mainly in Wallace, Idaho.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Dance Theater and the most unlike its peers is Rivers of Life Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BROADWAY ROSE THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds BEAVERTON ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORDIC NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds CLACKAMAS COUNTY FAIR IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEN GRANDS CONCERTS INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVERTON CIVIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Arts Council of Lake Oswego ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE FALLS AND LANDINGS HERITAGE AREA COALIT ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HILLSBORO DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST DANCE THEATER ↗
- Who funds MT HOOD CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Stumptown Stages ↗
- Who funds HILLSBORO TUESDAY MARKET PLACE INC DBA HILLSBORO TUESDAY NIGHT MARKET ↗
- Who funds HILLSBORO VISUAL ART ASSOCIATION DBA SEQUOIA GALLERY AND STUDIOS ↗
- Who funds Clackamas County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds RASIKA SOCIETY FOR ARTS OF INDIA ↗
- Who funds OREGON CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds Main Street Oregon City DBA Downtown Oregon City Association ↗
- Who funds JACKNIFE-ZION-HORSEHEAVEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds One World Chorus ↗
- Who funds Clackamas Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARTMAX ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SANDY ACTORS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Rivers of Life Center ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE FALLS SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds Sherwood Area Chamber of Commerce ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Kinsman Foundation · Regional Arts & Culture Council · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Washington County Visitors Association · Juan Young Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arts Action Alliance Foundation Dba Clackamas County Arts Alliance funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Rivers of Life Center — 65% of income from government
- Main Street Oregon City Dba Downtown Oregon City Association — 6% of income from government
- Washington County Historical Society — 4% of income from government
- Broadway Rose Theatre Co — 1% of income from government
- Stumptown Stages — 1% of income from government
- Oswego Heritage Council Inc — 0% of income from government
- Beaverton Arts Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Clackamas Community College Foundation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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