· Public charity
Regional Arts & Culture Council
To enrich our communities through arts and culture.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $31,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,338,800 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,307,800 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.
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 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you 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
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 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
- TWTHE WINE NOMAD LLCone grant, 2021 · $45k
- VMVITALIDAD MOVEMENT ARTS & EVENTS CENTERone grant, 2021 · $45k
- MBMEKONG BISTROone grant, 2021 · $45k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
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
MusicOregon supports Oregons independent music creators and related professionals through artistic, cultural, educational, and public interest programs. We are committed to empowering creative musical excellence, promoting professional…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boom Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is C3INITIATIVE Dba Stelo. 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 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
166 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. 166 of the 256 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 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.
- 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
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.