How much did Regional Arts & Culture Council grant in FY2023?

Arts & Culture$21MEducation$1.1MPhilanthropy$768kYouth Development$417kHuman Services$195kEnvironment$41kCrime & Legal$7kHealth$6kEmployment$6kOther$5.0M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

employmenteconomicaffordable housingparkprofessional performanceculturallyspecific

2020

offeredmusic concertscultureswomenachieveimaginealternatives

2021

pdxcares venuediasporaaapimusical theaterprofessional musicalasianyear-round

2022

industrystreetmusical theaterprofessional musicalcampgirlsjapanese

2023

abbeychinesecalderadiasporaauthenticaapivisual performing

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k32 grants · $1.2M
$50k–250k46 grants · $4.2M
$250k+2 grants · $729k

$57,800

Median grant

States reached

$20M

Total assets

Largest grants

PORTLAND ART MUESEUM$371,500
OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION$357,400
PORTLAND CENTER STAGE$226,300
OREGON BALLET THEATRE$211,900
PORTLAND OPERA$179,600
LITERARY ARTS$147,400
NW CHILDRENS THEATER & SCHOOL$144,800
ARTISTS REPERTOY THEATRE$139,300
HOLLYWOOD THEATRE$138,900
OREGON CHILDRENS THEATRE$136,700
PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE$116,300
PORTLAND YOUTH PHILHARMONIC$113,700
INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMP ART$108,500
OREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS$107,400
BODYVOX$105,900

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$27M · 104 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

104 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2023, 25 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

104

147

Total granted

$27M

$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

Still filing today

90%

34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

PORTLAND ART MUSEUMNW FILM CENTER
6× · 2018–2023 · $2.4M · revenue +62%
OREGON BALLET THEATRE
6× · 2018–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +37%
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NW CHILDRENS THEATER & SCHOOL
6× · 2018–2023 · $599k · revenue +12%

Funded once

CS
CLINTON STREET THEATER
one grant, 2021 · $45k
TA
THE ALBERTA STREET PUB
one grant, 2021 · $45k
VV
VINO VERITAS WINE BAR & BOTTLE SHOP
one grant, 2021 · $45k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Portland Museum of Art

Museum/Educational

Arts & Culture

Seattle Opera

To thrill, inspire and educate through the shared experience of opera

Arts & Culture

Seattle Chamber Music Festival

To foster the appreciation of chamber music in our region by presenting performances featuring world-class musicians in accessible and inviting formats, with an emphasis on developing a broad-based sustainable audience through education…

Arts & Culture

Portland Ovations

Portland ovations propels the artistic, social, educational and economic wellbeing of communitites through the power of the performing arts.

Arts & Culture

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

Oregon Contemporary Theatre

Oregon contemporary theatre creates outstanding performances and programs that inspire curiosity, challenge expectation, encourage dialogue and support positive change.

Arts & Culture

Pacific Northwest Music Project

Arts & Culture

Future Prairie

Founded in January 2018, Future Prairie is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit queer artist collective in Portland, Oregon. We pay LGBTQIA+ Oregon-based artists to design, curate, and produce art projects that showcase new and better dreams of the…

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Southwest Washington Center for the Arts

Philanthropy

Eugene Symphony Association Inc

Enriching lives through the power of music, presenting a diverse range of orchestral repertoire at the highest level of artistic excellence, and providing musical education opportunities for children and adults.

Arts & Culture

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Developing and operating a major performing arts center presenting the finest in performing arts.

Arts & Culture

Annex Theatre

The performance of live performance to the general public. Annex Theatre is a democratic collective of theatre artists dedicated to creating bold new work in an environment of improbability, resourcefulness, and risk.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boom Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lan Su Chinese Garden. 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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%3/252

the rest of the field

12%

569/4,864

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.

05the grantee network

159 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

145/159

Grantees still filing

104/159

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$21,447,758Other$5,006,800Education$1,065,082Philanthropy$768,396Youth Development$417,310Human Services$194,539Environment$40,600

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.

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.

James F & Marion L Miller FoundationOR166.3× affinity89 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 · The Jackson Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Juan Young Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · The Kinsman Foundation · Cornell University 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 organisation Regional Arts & Culture 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CYMASPACE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 463310318 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CYMASPACE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 85% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Regional Arts & Culture Council?

Find your warmest path to Regional Arts & Culture Council through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Regional Arts & Culture Council

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

159 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Regional Arts & Culture Council?

More from the funding graph

Regional Arts & Culture Council

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

159 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Regional Arts & Culture Council?

More from the funding graph