Oregon · Nonprofit
ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION
ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,016 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $356k
- Net assets
- $17k
What Alberta Abbey Foundation does
Mission
Alberta abbey aims to nuture the creative, visual and performing arts in n/ne portland by amplifying opportunities for black and underrepresented communities. The abbey serves this mission by providing affordable education, gallery, studio, and performance spaces, and showcasing events for local groups of all ages.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Program service accomplishments januarydecember 2025 Alberta Abbey Foundation served 31,295+ attendees across 12 months of programming in 2025. Highlights by program area: productions (self-produced): original concerts, performances, open mics, and community showcases produced directly by aaf including our black history month series (february), passinart gospel show, cotton club reunion, albina jazz showcase, karma rivera, the jury experience, band after midnight, sonde cuba, and more. Events spanned the main theater and basement ballroom. Productions (presented): hosted artists and touring productions including the "everything's better" run (5weeks, 39 shows, augustseptember), black nativity (december), afterdark (3 weeks, december), barefootfusion, ballake sissoko & derek gripper, dobet gnahore, ablaye cissoko, and others. Film screenings: regular monthly screenings throughout the year. Classes & workshops: the listen movement (februaryaugust, 8 biweekly workshops), yoga for us for black & underrepresented communities (octoberdecember), and additional workshop programming. Community programs: red cross blood drives (february, june), town hall with rep. Travis e. Nelson, 10 month…
$1,000,464 spent$1,101,239 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,000,464.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $207k to $837k (+305%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 32% · 2022 2% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Brian Gillis
Board chair/
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $46k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION’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.
How concentrated its funding is
ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
41% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 44% · 2021 53% · 2022 48% · 2023 34% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record — $10k federal, $65k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$63k
- INTERAGENCY LEASE PAYMENTS$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION
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.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION: 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 ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION?
- ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,016 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $356,016 in grants to ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION?
- Regional Arts & Culture Council is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALBERTA ABBEY FOUNDATION 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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