Oregon · Nonprofit
All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise
All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise (Oregon) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,097,966 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($682,275). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise does
Mission
Friends of Noise is a non-profit organization built on the values of collectivism and restorative justice. We seek to transform the culture of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth access to the music industry. We foster a healthy ecosystem for all ages to thrive by providing youth-focused programs, teaching industry skills, developing resources, mentorship and professional development. We meet young people where they are by facilitating opportunities for immersion into a safer arts community while uplifting youth voices.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
All Ages Music Portland had the privilege to act as Fiscal Sponsor for organizations whose mission align with our organization.
$478,379 spent$39,800 earned by the program56% of program spendingProgramming Highlights: *Hosted 21 concerts/events accessible to all ages, where artists were paid for their performances including annual events like Spring Break Fest, Masquerade of Madness, and our Icebreaker winter break concert. *Provided sound services for 125 client events, connecting youth sound engineers and/or youth artists with paid work *Co-Hosted 11 youth open mic events at different venues throughout Portland *Hosted 15 Sound Squad Supreme training days, where youth sound engineers get to explore new gear, ask questions, and meet other team members *Facilitated a tour for our youth sound engineers of Moda Center (a large convention center) to see the inner workings of large scale concerts and sports productions *Helped youth leaders produce 3 benefit shows *Produced Find Your Future Fest, a youth curated career fair including an all ages concert at the end *Released Rose City Rising II; our second intergenerational collaborative recording project featuring 5 youth emcees/bands. *Advocated for youth artists to perform (and be paid) at 3 major festivals in Portland during 2024: Waterfront Blues Fest, Pickathon and PDX Pop Now. This provided exposure to hundreds of…
$375,498 spentof which $25,206 as grants$224,312 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $853,877.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $390k to $664k (+70%).
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 3% · 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Amy Dragon
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 18 funders, grant income rose $50k → $393k.
10 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise’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
All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
48% 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 All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 52% · 2022 24% · 2023 25% — 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
57% of All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
93% of All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $715k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $37k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$37k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$570
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 All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise
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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise: 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 All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise?
- All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise (Oregon) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,097,966 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($682,275). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $2,097,966 in grants to All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $682,275 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 30 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