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Lane Arts Council

LANE ARTS COUNCIL cultivates belonging, learning, and investment to engage all of lane county in the transformative power of the arts.

$66k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.

Arts & Culture$2.4MAnimals$153k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $5,375 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $66,173 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $60,798 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.

$5,375
Median grant
1
States reached
$791k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANCEABILITY INTERNATIONAL$5,375
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%CASCADES RAPTOR CENTER: $153k → 15%FRIENDS OF BUFORD PARK & MT PISGAH: $105k → 15%BALLET FANTASTIQUE: $102k → 15%THE VERY LITTLE THEATRE: $34k → 15%UPSTART CROW STUDIOS: $75k → 15%ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY INSTITUTE: $25k → 15%CHILDREN'S REPARATORY OF OREGON WOR: $26k → 15%MUSIC EDUCATION AND PERFORMING ARTS: $11k → 15%EUGENE-SPRINGFIELD YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $19k → 15%CITY OF FLORENCE DBA FLORENCE EVENT: $12k → 15%INSPIRATIONAL SOUNDS: $6k → 15%KUTSINHIRA CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $12k → 15%COBURG WEST POINT GRANGE 535: $5k → 15%FLORENCE PERFORMING ARTS DBA SEACOA: $5k → 15%FINE ARTS BRIGADE: $5k → 15%LANE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MU: $9k → 15%APPLEGATE REGIONAL THEATRE INC: $19k → 15%SPOTLIGHT THEATER OF PLEASANT HILL: $7k → 15%DITCH PROJECTS: $22k → 15%EMERALD EMPIRE ART ASSOCIATION INC: $7k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $40k → 15%MAUDE KERNS ART CENTER: $19k → 15%MAUDE KERNS ART CENTER: $6k → 15%EUGENE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $380k → 15%EUGENE BALLET COMPANY: $265k → 15%EUGENE SCIENCE CENTER: $188k → 15%EUGENE OPERA: $174k → 15%OCTOBER 17 DBA BROADWAY METRO: $161k → 15%OREGON MOZART PLAYERS: $97k → 15%CHAMBER MUSIC AMICI: $49k → 15%SATURDAY MARKET INC: $41k → 15%LANE COUNTY: $35k → 15%WORDCRAFTERS IN EUGENE: $34k → 15%EUGENE CONCERT CHOIR: $33k → 15%ADVENTURE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $32k → 15%JOINT FORCES DANCE COMPANY: $30k → 15%ORCHESTRA NEXT: $23k → 15%XCAPE DANCE COMPANY: $21k → 15%ROSE CHILDREN'S THEATER: $15k → 15%GRUPO LATINO DE ACCION DIRECTA: $11k → 15%SHELTON MCMURPHEY JOHNSON ASSOCIATE: $7k → 15%OREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE: $6k → 15%ARTS AND BUSINESS ALLIANCE OF EUGEN: $6k → 15%DANCEABILITY INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 15%PEGASUS PLAYHOUSE: $5k → 15%OREGON AVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17k → 15%OPAL CENTER FOR ARTS & EDUCATION: $13k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Early Music Guild of Oregon

We give concerts, workshops and online music classes.

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2
Central Oregon Center for the 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

Arts & Culture
3
Opera Theater Oregon

The mission of opera theater oregon is to create, develop, and produce new operatic work, with an emphasis on projects that engage the community on issues of environment and social justice. with an emphasis on contemporary music and…

Arts & Culture
4
Oregon Conservatory of Perfoming Arts

Organization dedicated to the advancement of The Performing Arts

Arts & Culture
5
Philharmonia Northwest

Philharmonia Northwest contributes to the vitality of the classical music community in the Pacific Northwest by presenting professional concerts highlighting the diverse past and present repertoire for chamber orchestra. It is also…

Arts & Culture
6
Southwest Washington Center for the Arts
Philanthropy
7
Cascadia Concert Opera

Cascadia Chamber Opera is dedicated to making exceptional and imaginative opera accessible to audiences throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Arts & Culture
8
Seattle Chamber Orchestra

Gather diverse and talented musicians, professionals and amateurs, to curate and perform orchestral repertoire that uplifts, inspires, and celebrates live performances, as well as offer educational activities concerning music.

Arts & Culture
9
Oregon Music Festival

Oregon Music Festival's mission is the performance, production, and promotion of classical music through orchestral, choral/orchestra, and chamber music.

Arts & Culture
10
Classical Uprising

Enlivening, strengthening, and connecting communities by creating immersive classical music experiences for everyone

Arts & Culture
11
Cedar City Music Arts Association

Music & arts performances

Arts & Culture
12
Wallowa Valley Arts Council

To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Ballet Company and the most unlike its peers is Grupo Latino De Accion Directa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%11%5–10yr17%26%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr17%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr17%11%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr17%26%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
2/48
the rest of the field
11%
222/2,100

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 51 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/43
Grantees still filing
29/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Eugene Symphony Association Inc — $379,994 · Arts & CultureEugene Symphony Association IncEUGENE BALLET COMPANY — $264,699 · Arts & CultureEUGENE BALLET COMPANYEUGENE SCIENCE CENTER — $188,024 · Arts & CultureEUGENE SCIENCE CENTEREUGENE OPERA — $173,578 · Arts & CultureEUGENE OPERAOREGON MOZART PLAYERS — $96,852 · Arts & CultureOREGON MOZART PLAYERSMAINSTAGE THEATRE COMPANY — $62,924 · Arts & Culture+22 more — $423,666 · Arts & Culture+22 moreOCTOBER 17 DBA BROADWAY METRO — $161,325 · OtherOCTOBER 17 DBA BROADW…SIMPLY PACIFIC LLC — $54,666 · OtherSIMPLY PACIFIC LLCSATURDAY MARKET INC — $41,254 · OtherSATURDAY MARKET INCJOINT FORCES DANCE COMPANY — $35,385 · OtherJOINT FORCES DANCE CO…LANE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY — $35,261 · OtherLANE COUNTY MEDICAL S…The Very Little Theater Inc — $33,760 · OtherThe Very Little Theat…EUGENE CONCERT CHOIR — $32,609 · OtherEUGENE CONCERT CHOIR+10 more — $80,337 · Other+10 moreBALLET FANTASTIQUE — $101,510 · EducationBALLET FA…UPSTART CROW STUDIOS — $74,871 · EducationUPSTART C…UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $40,426 · EducationUNIVERSIT…CASCADES RAPTOR CENTER — $152,693 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF BUFORD PARK AND MT PISGAH — $104,987 · EnvironmentGRUPO LATINO DE ACCION DIRECTA — $10,720 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$1,589,737Other$474,597Education$216,807Animals$152,693Environment$104,987Civil Rights$10,720

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEugene Symphony Association Inc — $379,994 over 1y, 13% of budgetEUGENE BALLET COMPANY — $264,699 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetEUGENE SCIENCE CENTER — $188,024 over 1y, 21% of budgetEUGENE OPERA — $173,578 over 1y, 29% of budgetCASCADES RAPTOR CENTER — $152,693 over 1y, 13% of budgetFRIENDS OF BUFORD PARK AND MT PISGAH — $104,987 over 1y, 14% of budgetBALLET FANTASTIQUE — $101,510 over 1y, 18% of budgetOREGON MOZART PLAYERS — $96,852 over 1y, 19% of budgetUPSTART CROW STUDIOS — $74,871 over 1y, 20% of budgetMAINSTAGE THEATRE COMPANY — $62,924 over 1y, 24% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC AMICI — $49,174 over 1y, 27% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $40,426 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOINT FORCES DANCE COMPANY — $35,385 over 2y, 19% of budgetLANE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY — $35,261 over 1y, 18% of budgetWordcrafters in Eugene — $33,794 over 1y, 15% of budgetThe Very Little Theater Inc — $33,760 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetEUGENE CONCERT CHOIR — $32,609 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetADVENTURE CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $31,644 over 1y, 18% of budgetOREGON CHILDREN'S CHOIR — $29,629 over 1y, 28% of budgetCHILDREN'S REPERTORY OF OR WORKSHOPS INC (CROW) — $25,540 over 1y, 17% of budgetARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY INSTITUTE — $24,630 over 1y, 15% of budgetMAUDE KERNS ART CENTER — $24,460 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetORCHESTRA NEXT — $22,905 over 1y, 25% of budgetEUGENE SPRINGFIELD YOUTH ORCHESTRAS — $18,757 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetApplegate Regional Theater Inc — $18,680 over 1y, 28% of budgetOREGON AVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $16,667 over 1y, 26% of budgetROSE CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $15,002 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetOPAL CENTER FOR ARTS AND EDUCATION — $12,501 over 1y, 23% of budgetKUTSINHIRA CULTURAL ARTS CENTER — $12,499 over 1y, 17% of budgetGRUPO LATINO DE ACCION DIRECTA — $10,720 over 1y, 78% of budgetMUSIC EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION — $10,591 over 1y, 13% of budgetLANE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $8,980 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetEMERALD EMPIRE ART ASSOCIATION INC — $7,326 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetShelton-McMurphey Johnson Associate — $7,046 over 1y, 12% of budgetDELGANI STRING QUARTET — $6,657 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetOREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetARTS & BUSINESS ALLIANCE OF EUGENE — $5,640 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetFLORENCE PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION DBA SEACOAST ENTERTAINMENT ASSOCIATION — $5,468 over 1y, 26% of budgetFINE ARTS BRIGADE — $5,036 over 1y, 9.7% of budget
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.

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.

The Oregon Community …James F & Marion L Mi…Chambers Family Found…The Autzen FoundationThe Woodard Family Fo…The Haugland Family F…Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Ford Family Found…Reed Family Foundatio…Larson Family Foundat…The EvansKabush Famil…The Sanford Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR52.3× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · Chambers Family Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Woodard Family Foundation · The Haugland Family Foundation Fka Rosaria P Haugland Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Ford Family Foundation · Reed Family Foundation Inc · Larson Family Foundation · The EvansKabush Family Foundation · The Sanford Foundation

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 Lane Arts Council 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Lane County Medical Society — 100% of income from government
  • Shelton-McMurphey Johnson Associate — 22% of income from government
  • Friends of Buford Park and Mt Pisgah — 14% of income from government
  • Wordcrafters in Eugene — 6% of income from government
  • Orchestra Next — 5% of income from government
  • Lane County Historical Society — 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Contemporary Theatre — 5% of income from government
  • Festival Chorale Oregon — 4% of income from government
  • Arts & Business Alliance of Eugene — 4% of income from government
  • Applegate Regional Theater Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Eugene Springfield Youth Orchestras — 4% of income from government
  • Eugene Symphony Association Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Oregon Children's Choir — 2% of income from government
  • Delgani String Quartet — 2% of income from government
  • Ballet Fantastique — 2% of income from government
  • Chamber Music Amici — 1% of income from government
  • Eugene Concert Choir — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Aviation Historical Society — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Lane Arts Council?

Find your warmest path to Lane Arts Council through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $64k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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