Oregon · Nonprofit
ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM (Oregon) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $406,353 to it, the largest being VITALOGY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $923k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $406k
- Net assets
- $282k
What Artist Mentorship Program does
Mission
The Artist Mentorship Program (AMP) is a Portland-based nonprofit that provides a safe, creative, and relationship-centered space for youth experiencing homelessness. Through music and art programming, AMP fosters community, self-expression, and skill development while building trust and connection with caring adults. In addition to creative programming, AMP meets immediate needs by providing meals, social services, and resource navigation, supporting youth in stabilizing their lives and accessing pathways toward long-term well-being.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, AMP supported 485 individual youth experiencing homelessness, providing music and art education, , mentorship, nutritious meals, social services, and job training. For many, the consistent presence of artist and musician mentors fosters a vital sense of belonging and self-worth. Through 20,000 engagement hours, AMP mentors and volunteers ensured that youth had access to a safe, creative space during high-risk evening hours, offering stability, connection, and opportunities for growth.
$348,642 spent51% of program spendingIn 2025, AMP provided 20,000 meals and distributed 26,000 pounds of nutritious food through our weekly Free Food Market, supporting both AMP students and food-insecure community members. This vital program is made possible through partnerships with local restaurants, dedicated volunteers, and organizations like Urban Gleaners, Feed the Mass, and Milk Crate Kitchen ensuring consistent access to nourishing meals for those who need them most.
$309,173 spent45% of program spendingIn 2025, AMP expanded the AMP Beat Building Academy. This month-long class is a trauma-informed music production and job-training program for youth experiencing homelessness. Using beat making as an accessible entry point, the program provides hands-on instruction in music production, basic music theory, and audio engineering. Youth participate in weekly, small-group sessions supported by experienced instructors, where they build technical skills, collaborate creatively, and develop confidence and consistency. The program also emphasizes transferable workforce skills such as time management, focus, problem-solving, and project completion. Through mentorship and creative expression, the Beat Building Academy supports emotional regulation, community connection, and pathways toward long-term stability and employment. To further encourage creative expression, AMP provided select youth with their own musical instruments, ensuring they have the tools to continue their artistic journey. This year, AMP distributed: 12 Guitars, 6 Ukuleles, 3 Keyboards, 4 Amplifiers & Pedals, 3 Drum Pads, 2 Electronic Drum Kits 4 sets of drum sticks, 2 Microphones, stands and cables, 1 Bass Guitar, 1 pair…
$24,060 spent4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $681,875.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $89k to $201k (+125%).
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: 2022 0% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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.
Chief executive
William Kendall
Executive Director
Board chair
Matthew Wicker
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $32k → $94k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM’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
ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
77% 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 ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 32% · 2023 53% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$23k
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 ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM: 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 ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM?
- ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM (Oregon) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $406,353 to it, the largest being VITALOGY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $406,353 in grants to ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM?
- VITALOGY FOUNDATION 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 ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 22 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing