Oregon · Nonprofit
A Notion A Scream
A Notion A Scream (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,875 to it, the largest being DEACON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,875). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $17k
What A Notion A Scream does
Mission
We are exempt under the primary purposes of Charitable and Educational. A Notion A Scream is a welcoming non-auditioned SATB choir in Portland OR founded in 2024 and led by Artistic Director DeReau K. Farrar. Our community choir is an accessible and inclusive ensemble committed to raising our voices against oppressions of any kind.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Julie Earnest: A Notion A Scream is a community choir dedicated to performing contemporary choral music by living composers with a focus on Black Latine and LGBTQ+ voices. We operate as a gift-economy ensemble with no singer fees full composer licensing and paid artistic staff welcoming 85 singers of diverse ages identities and backgrounds. We present two free benefit concerts each year partnering with aligned local nonprofits and sharing concert revenue to expand community impact. Since 2024 weve performed two sold-out concerts for nearly 500 attendees and raised funds for local organizations with plans to grow our audience and outreach in FY26 while upholding values of anti-oppression musical excellence and fair support for local artists. Devon Mitchell: We really do only have one program
$31,961 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,961.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Julie Earnest
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of A Notion A Scream’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
A Notion A Scream draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
A Notion A Scream runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like A Notion A Scream
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A Notion A Scream: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A Notion A Scream?
- A Notion A Scream (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,875 to it, the largest being DEACON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,875). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A Notion A Scream have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,875 in grants to A Notion A Scream.
- Who is the largest funder of A Notion A Scream?
- DEACON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,875 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A Notion A Scream find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing