· Public charity
Regional Arts & Culture Council
To enrich our communities through arts and culture.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROADWAY ROSE THEATRE COMPANY | $14,000 |
| BAG & BAGGAGE PRODUCTIONS | $10,000 |
| VIBE OF PORTLAND | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
106 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 103 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM7× · 2018–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +35%
OREGON BALLET THEATRE7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +17%- NCNORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $679k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- SBSANTE BARone grant, 2021 · $45k
- VVVINO VERITAS WINE BAR & BOTTLE SHOPone grant, 2021 · $45k
- T1THE 1905one grant, 2021 · $45k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
Orchestra next, a non-profit organization, is committed to training the next generation of orchestral musicians. we do this by creating opportunities for students and professionals to collaborate, rehearse and perform together in…
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
Oregon contemporary theatre creates outstanding performances and programs that inspire curiosity, challenge expectation, encourage dialogue and support positive change.
Portland Youth Theater's primary exempt purpose is to unlock self-discovery in young people through the transformative power of theater. Our programs reach hundreds of kids each week in our venue and in schools throughout our community,…
18th & Union's mission is to sustain an affordable, inclusive, and intimate space that nurtures art and community. 18th & Union maintains a 48-seat performance space, including lobby, restrooms, storage, and theatrical lighting, sound, and…
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…
we're an arts non profit that serves underserved artists through our residency program
The mission of Chatter PDX is to foster community through weekly live performances that feature chamber music poetry and welcoming spaces for conversation and community. We curate events that combine artistic excellence with adventurous…
How this is measured
168 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 168 of the 256 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND CENTER STAGE ↗
- Who funds OREGON BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Artists Repertory Theatre ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LITERARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre ↗
- Who funds OREGON CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES OF OREGON INC ↗
- Who funds THE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL DANCE PROJEC DBA NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BODYVOX INC ↗
- Who funds Portland Youth Philharmonic Association ↗
- Who funds Profile Theatre Project ↗
- Who funds PHAME ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WHITE BIRD ↗
- Who funds Ethos Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds CAPPELLA ROMANA ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE THEATRE GROUP ↗
- Who funds OREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds THE PORTLAND BALLET ↗
- Who funds The Red Door Project ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND JAZZ FESTIVAL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Youth Symphony ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds ECHO THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THIRD RAIL REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS ↗
- Who funds LIVE WIRE RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds WRITE AROUND PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY ROSE THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds Coho Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds MY VOICE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS PROJECT ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Regional Arts & Culture Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Regional Arts & Culture Council. Bigger dots raise more.
- Slavic Community Center of Nw Inc: 100% of income from government
- Opera Theater Oregon: 100% of income from government
- The Vanport Mosaic: 81% of income from government
- Edwards Center Inc: 79% of income from government
- Artists Repertory Theatre: 48% of income from government
- Tualatin Valley Creates: 40% of income from government
- Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives Inc: 36% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center: 23% of income from government
- Young Audiences of Oregon Inc: 23% of income from government
- Risk-Reward: 22% of income from government
- En Taiko: 19% of income from government
- Latino Network: 15% of income from government
- Push Fold: 14% of income from government
- Ethos Inc: 13% of income from government
- Oregon Arts Watch: 13% of income from government
- The Portland Playhouse: 11% of income from government
- My Voice Music Inc: 11% of income from government
- Montavilla Jazz Festival: 10% of income from government
- Central City Concern: 10% of income from government
- Literary Arts Inc: 10% of income from government
- Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble: 9% of income from government
- Vibe of Portland: 9% of income from government
- CymaSpace: 8% of income from government
- Bienestar Inc: 8% of income from government
- Resonance Vocal Ensemble: 7% of income from government
- Write Around Portland: 6% of income from government
- Miracle Theatre Group: 6% of income from government
- Portland Institute for Contemporary Art: 5% of income from government
- Portland Community College Foundation Inc: 5% of income from government
- Coho Productions Inc: 5% of income from government
- Kickstand Comedy: 5% of income from government
- Third Rail Repertory Theatre: 5% of income from government
- New Expressive Works: 5% of income from government
- Children's Healing Art Project Inc: 4% of income from government
- Corrib Theatre: 4% of income from government
- Media-Rites: 4% of income from government
- Cappella Romana: 4% of income from government
- Oregon Center for Contemporary Art Inc: 4% of income from government
- Rejoice Diaspora Dance Theater: 4% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry: 4% of income from government
- Architecture Foundation of Oregon: 4% of income from government
- Open Hearts Open Minds: 4% of income from government
- Performance Works Northwest Inc: 3% of income from government
- Portland Lesbian Choir: 3% of income from government
- PlayWrite Inc: 3% of income from government
- Bodyvox Inc: 3% of income from government
- Third Angle New Music Ensemble: 3% of income from government
- Chamber Music Northwest: 3% of income from government
- Polaris Dance Theatre: 2% of income from government
- Triangle Productions: 2% of income from government
- Takohachi Inc: 2% of income from government
- White Bird: 2% of income from government
- Twilight Theater Company: 2% of income from government
- Profile Theatre Project: 2% of income from government
- Fear No Music: 2% of income from government
- Willamette Writers Inc: 2% of income from government
- Portland Opera Association Inc: 2% of income from government
- Bosco-Milligan Foundation Architectural Heritage Center: 1% of income from government
- Pacific Youth Choir: 1% of income from government
- Portland Community Media: 1% of income from government
- Alberta Abbey Foundation: 1% of income from government
- All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise: 1% of income from government
- Portland Street Art Alliance: 1% of income from government
- Live Wire Radio Inc: 1% of income from government
- Portland Gay Men's Chorus: 1% of income from government
- Boom Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
- Portland Baroque Orchestra: 1% of income from government
- Friends of Chamber Music: 1% of income from government
- Outside the Frame: 1% of income from government
- Independent Publishing Resource Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- A-Wol Dance Collective: 1% of income from government
- Portland Center Stage: 1% of income from government
- Echo Theater Company: 1% of income from government
- Broadway Rose Theatre Co: 1% of income from government
- Northwest Professional Dance Projec Dba Northwest Dance Project: 1% of income from government
- Caldera: 1% of income from government
- Metropolitan Youth Symphony: 1% of income from government
- Portland Taiko: 1% of income from government
- PassinArt - a Theater Company: 1% of income from government
- Portland Youth Philharmonic Association: 0% of income from government
- North Pole Studio: 0% of income from government
- Portland Jazz Festival Incorporated: 0% of income from government
- Phame Academy: 0% of income from government
- Oregon Ballet Theatre: 0% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association: 0% of income from government
- Centro Cultural of Washington County: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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