Oregon · Public charity
Regional Arts & Culture Council
To enrich our communities through arts and culture.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 83
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $31k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $14,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 76 to 144
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Regional Arts & Culture Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $31k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 83 | $3.8M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 80 | $6.1M | 1% |
| FY2022 | 76 | $3.2M | 1% |
| FY2021 | 144 | $5.5M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 122 | $5.2M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 123 | $5.8M | 44% |
| FY2018 | 90 | $3.1M | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Arts & Culture$30MHealth$1.1MYouth Development$766kHuman Services$191kEducation$136kRecreation & Sports$96kCommunity Improvement$65kEnvironment$65kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portland Art Museum | $2,568,146 | 7 | 3% |
| Oregon Symphony Association | $2,245,659 | 7 | 3% |
| Portland Center Stage | $1,515,612 | 7 | 4% |
| Oregon Ballet Theatre | $1,133,368 | 7 | 3% |
| Portland Opera Association Inc | $1,099,767 | 7 | 6% |
| Artists Repertory Theatre | $695,362 | 7 | 7% |
| Northwest Children's Theater and School Inc | $678,614 | 7 | 6% |
| Literary Arts Inc | $678,021 | 7 | 3% |
| Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre | $637,846 | 7 | 6% |
| Oregon Children's Theatre Company | $636,598 | 7 | 6% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portland Art Museum | $2,568,146 | 7 | 3% |
| Oregon Symphony Association | $2,245,659 | 7 | 3% |
| Portland Center Stage | $1,515,612 | 7 | 4% |
| Oregon Ballet Theatre | $1,133,368 | 7 | 3% |
| Portland Opera Association Inc | $1,099,767 | 7 | 6% |
| Artists Repertory Theatre | $695,362 | 7 | 7% |
| Northwest Children's Theater and School Inc | $678,614 | 7 | 6% |
| Literary Arts Inc | $678,021 | 7 | 3% |
| Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre | $637,846 | 7 | 6% |
| Oregon Children's Theatre Company | $636,598 | 7 | 6% |
| Portland Institute for Contemporary Art | $595,203 | 7 | 8% |
| Young Audiences of Oregon Inc | $585,186 | 7 | 7% |
| The Portland Playhouse | $531,900 | 6 | 8% |
| Northwest Professional Dance Projec Dba Northwest Dance Project | $487,382 | 7 | 9% |
| Bodyvox Inc | $466,727 | 7 | 8% |
| Portland Youth Philharmonic Association | $440,778 | 7 | 7% |
| Profile Theatre Project | $435,562 | 7 | 11% |
| Phame Academy | $435,487 | 7 | 13% |
| White Bird | $423,932 | 7 | 20% |
| Ethos Inc | $423,879 | 7 | 11% |
| Chamber Music Northwest | $415,463 | 6 | 7% |
| Cappella Romana | $395,350 | 6 | 21% |
| Miracle Theatre Group | $383,119 | 7 | 12% |
| Oregon Bravo Youth Orchestras | $376,700 | 7 | 11% |
| The Portland Ballet | $374,997 | 7 | 9% |
| The Red Door Project | $371,400 | 7 | 10% |
| Portland Baroque Orchestra | $368,390 | 7 | 12% |
| Portland Jazz Festival Incorporated | $330,435 | 7 | 8% |
| Metropolitan Youth Symphony | $327,304 | 7 | 7% |
| Independent Publishing Resource Center Inc | $319,011 | 7 | 25% |
| Friends of Chamber Music | $312,540 | 7 | 7% |
| Echo Theater Company | $311,182 | 7 | 14% |
| Third Rail Repertory Theatre | $309,303 | 7 | 13% |
| Portland Gay Men's Chorus | $297,961 | 7 | 12% |
| Live Wire Radio Inc | $286,165 | 7 | 10% |
| Write Around Portland | $282,664 | 7 | 16% |
| Broadway Rose Theatre Co | $273,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Coho Productions Inc | $266,450 | 7 | 18% |
| My Voice Music Inc | $265,890 | 7 | 9% |
| The Circus Project | $261,408 | 5 | 10% |
| Imago the Theatre Mask Ensemble | $261,147 | 7 | 16% |
| Polaris Dance Theatre | $255,150 | 7 | 25% |
| Lakewood Theatre Company | $253,900 | 6 | 4% |
| Oregon Center for Contemporary Art Inc | $237,664 | 6 | 12% |
| Portland Piano International | $225,140 | 7 | 8% |
| Third Angle New Music Ensemble | $213,058 | 7 | 12% |
| Boom Arts Inc | $208,550 | 7 | 41% |
| Triangle Productions | $204,750 | 7 | 13% |
| World Stage Theatre | $202,418 | 7 | 17% |
| CymaSpace | $197,300 | 6 | 85% |
| Outside the Frame | $190,050 | 7 | 10% |
| The Vanport Mosaic | $185,300 | 6 | 18% |
| Hand 2 Mouth | $183,630 | 7 | 17% |
| Media-Rites | $183,575 | 7 | 66% |
| New Expressive Works | $182,900 | 6 | 33% |
| Shaking the Tree Inc | $182,050 | 5 | 17% |
| Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble | $179,900 | 7 | 15% |
| Orchestra Nova Northwest | $178,867 | 7 | 13% |
| Bag and Baggage Productions | $175,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts | $171,509 | 7 | 17% |
| PassinArt - A Theater Company | $171,230 | 7 | 11% |
| Pacific Youth Choir | $169,580 | 7 | 18% |
| Children's Healing Art Project Inc | $168,217 | 7 | 11% |
| Instituto de Cultura y Arte in Xoch | $167,050 | 6 | 31% |
| PlayWrite Inc | $158,149 | 7 | 22% |
| Northwest Documentary Arts & Media | $157,161 | 7 | 31% |
| Portland Street Art Alliance | $150,650 | 5 | 8% |
| Portland Taiko | $142,050 | 6 | 25% |
| Disability Art and Culture Project | $140,510 | 4 | 84% |
| Corrib Theatre | $134,400 | 6 | 17% |
| en Taiko | $120,119 | 6 | 33% |
| Rejoice Diaspora Dance Theater | $105,000 | 3 | 78% |
| Takohachi Inc | $100,240 | 4 | 28% |
| Alberta Abbey Foundation | $100,000 | 3 | 11% |
| All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise | $98,250 | 4 | 4% |
| World Arts Foundation Inc | $97,000 | 4 | 38% |
| Broadway Rose Theatre Company | $94,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Street Books | $92,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Theatre Diaspora | $90,000 | 3 | 63% |
| Morpheus Youth Project | $86,800 | 4 | 14% |
| Caldera | $86,060 | 3 | 1% |
| Artmax Academy | $75,000 | 3 | 35% |
| Rock N Roll Camp for Girls | $69,550 | 4 | 15% |
| Lan Su Chinese Garden | $65,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Resonance Vocal Ensemble | $58,350 | 3 | 13% |
| Apano Communities United Fund | $52,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Native American Youth and Family Center | $51,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Sante Bar | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vino Veritas Wine Bar & Bottle Shop | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The 1905 | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cinema 21 | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Wine Nomad LLC | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mekong Bistro | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Itty Bitty 2 | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vitalidad Movement Arts & Events Center | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clinton Street Theater | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The High Water Mark Lounge | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| E45t LLC Dba 45 East | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Alberta Street Pub | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Darcelle XV LLC | $35,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Water in the Desert Inc | $32,250 | 3 | 29% |
| A-WOL Dance Collective | $31,725 | 3 | 5% |
| Jjbluebar LLC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Pole Studio | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Risk-Reward | $24,600 | 3 | 14% |
| Queerdocfest LLC | $23,755 | 3 | n/a |
| Kukatonon | $22,750 | 1 | 16% |
| Performance Works Northwest Inc | $20,970 | 3 | 13% |
| McMenamins Pubs& Breweries | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alberta Rose Theatre | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Strum | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Hallowed Halls | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bunk Bar | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Portland Metro Arts | $20,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Funhouse Lounge | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Holocene LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kickstand Comedy | $20,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Doug Fir Lounge | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Future Bar | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wonder Ballroom Cafe LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ursa Minor LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Church | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Curious Comedy Productions | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Art Freaks R US | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clackamas County Health Centers | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rontoms Lounge | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mississippi Productions Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wilfs Restaurant & Jazz Bar | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ranger Station Pdx | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kellys Olympian | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cerimon House | $20,000 | 1 | 29% |
| Oregon Museum of Science and Industry | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hey Love | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tango Berretn LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Roseland Theater & Peter's Room | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Blue Diamond | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Slims Restaurant and Lounge | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Goodfoot | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| World Famous Kenton Club | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| R&M Hospitality LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rnc Holdings LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eat an Oyster Bar | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Turn Turn Turn | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Black Water | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Fixin' To | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mmio Corporation | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Comedysportz Portland | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Starday | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Willamette Light Brigade | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Good George LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Double Skunk LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Portland Oregon Womens Film Festival | $19,600 | 3 | n/a |
| Live on Stage | $17,949 | 3 | n/a |
| Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education | $16,852 | 2 | n/a |
| Portland Summerfest Aka Opera in the Park Portland | $16,720 | 2 | 25% |
| Opera Theater Oregon | $16,510 | 2 | 31% |
| Push Fold | $15,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Open Hearts Open Minds | $15,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Ok You Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Vibe of Portland | $15,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Washington County Oregon | $14,195 | 2 | n/a |
| Pendulum Aerial Arts | $14,000 | 1 | 25% |
| Portland Community College Foundation Inc | $13,550 | 2 | 0% |
| Portland Latin American Film Festival | $13,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Tualatin Valley Creates | $13,100 | 1 | 7% |
| Beaverton Civic Theatre | $12,984 | 2 | n/a |
| Fuse Theatre Ensemble | $12,500 | 2 | 12% |
| Architecture Foundation of Oregon | $12,250 | 2 | 2% |
| In Mulieribus | $12,130 | 1 | n/a |
| Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre Northwest | $11,160 | 2 | n/a |
| Latino Network | $10,062 | 1 | 0% |
| Formation Studios LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bad Reputation Productions LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Flock Dance Center | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| True North Studios LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival Jim Pepper Native Arts Council | $9,135 | 1 | n/a |
| Vss Properties LLC | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Michelle Medler Dba Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Twilight Theater Company | $8,000 | 1 | 21% |
| Classical Up Close | $7,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Pdx Pop Now Pdxp | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Western Alliance of Arts Administrators Foundation | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Oregon Arts Watch | $7,000 | 1 | 6% |
| The Library Foundation | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Viva la Freekenton Action Plan | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Contemporary Art & Culture | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Resolutions Northwest | $6,950 | 1 | 1% |
| One World Chorus | $6,950 | 1 | 4% |
| Signal Fire | $6,870 | 1 | n/a |
| Imagine Black Futures | $6,650 | 1 | 1% |
| Good in the Hood | $6,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Nordic Northwest | $6,650 | 1 | 1% |
| Street Roots Inc | $6,650 | 1 | 1% |
| Northwest Animation Festival | $6,638 | 1 | n/a |
| Willamette Writers Inc | $6,590 | 1 | 3% |
| Elbow Room | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Portland Community Media | $6,430 | 1 | 0% |
| Rogue Pack | $6,430 | 1 | n/a |
| Fear No Music | $6,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Media Project 925 Nw 19th | $6,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Portland Lesbian Choir | $6,300 | 1 | 8% |
| Northwest Classical Theatre Inc | $6,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Estacada Area Arts Commission | $6,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Montavilla Jazz Festival | $6,300 | 1 | 23% |
| Linestorm Playwrights | $6,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Pacific Northwest College of Art | $6,300 | 1 | 0% |
| C3initiative Dba Stelo | $6,300 | 1 | 1% |
| Fonograf Editions | $6,280 | 1 | n/a |
| Slavic Community Center of NW Inc | $6,260 | 2 | 9% |
| Wolfbird Dance | $6,210 | 1 | n/a |
| Central City Concern | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bosco-Milligan Foundation Architectural Heritage Center | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Edwards Center Inc | $5,950 | 1 | 0% |
| Theatre Company | $5,950 | 1 | 5% |
| Jane a Theater Company | $5,950 | 1 | n/a |
| Soulpatch Music Productions | $5,950 | 1 | n/a |
| Centro Cultural of Washington County | $5,950 | 1 | 0% |
| Bienestar Inc | $5,950 | 1 | 0% |
| Hacienda Community Development Corporation | $5,950 | 1 | 0% |
| Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives Inc | $5,950 | 1 | 0% |
| Broken Planetarium | $5,890 | 1 | n/a |
| Shine Children's Chorus | $5,860 | 1 | n/a |
| Curvy Chic Closet Foundation | $5,820 | 1 | n/a |
| Circus Cascadia | $5,775 | 1 | 6% |
| Unit Souzou LLC | $5,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Design Museum Foundation Inc | $5,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Portland Tango Association Inc | $5,600 | 1 | 7% |
| Portland Meet Portland | $5,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Marylhurst University | $5,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Japanese Garden Society of Oregon | $5,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Yu Contemporary Inc Dba Yale Union | $5,600 | 1 | 2% |
| Couch Film Collective | $5,600 | 1 | n/a |
| National Association of Composers USA | $5,530 | 1 | n/a |
| Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble | $5,500 | 1 | 9% |
| Bach Cantata Choir | $5,480 | 1 | n/a |
| YWCA of Greater Portland | $5,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Lgbtq Community Center Fund | $5,360 | 1 | 1% |
| Portland State University | $5,290 | 1 | n/a |
| Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest | $5,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Urban Art Network | $5,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Zenazezza Inc | $5,250 | 1 | n/a |
| 45th Parallel | $5,250 | 1 | 2% |
| Native Wellness Institute | $5,250 | 1 | n/a |
| India Cultural Association | $5,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Tucker Maxon School | $5,250 | 1 | n/a |
| The Aspire Project | $5,250 | 1 | 2% |
| The Clexa Project | $5,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Bollywood Movez | $5,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Washington County Historical Society | $5,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Oregon Music Festival | $5,230 | 1 | 1% |
| Portland Festival Symphony | $5,180 | 1 | n/a |
| Letra Chueca Press | $5,130 | 1 | n/a |
| Original Practice Shakespeare Festival | $5,030 | 1 | 8% |
| Our Bold Voices | $5,020 | 1 | n/a |
| Portland'5 Centers for the Arts Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
Where it is load-bearing
Regional Arts & Culture Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 17 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 149 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 149.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
James F & Marion L Miller FoundationOR197.8× affinity110 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Jackson Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Kinsman Foundation · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
About Regional Arts & Culture Council
- How much does Regional Arts & Culture Council give?
- Regional Arts & Culture Council reported 3 itemized grants totaling $31,000, out of $1,338,800 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 76 and 144 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Regional Arts & Culture Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (92%), Health (3%), Youth Development (2%).
- Who are Regional Arts & Culture Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Portland Art Museum ($2.6M), Oregon Symphony Association ($2.2M), Portland Center Stage ($1.5M).
- Does Regional Arts & Culture Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Regional Arts & Culture Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include James F & Marion L Miller Foundation, The Collins Foundation, Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust.
- Where is Regional Arts & Culture Council based?
- Regional Arts & Culture Council is based in OR.
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