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Bag and Baggage Productions

Bag and Baggage Productions (Oregon) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,519,057 to it, the largest being JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION ($333,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$1.6M
11/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Bag and Baggage Productions does

Mission

The producing theatre company's mission is to use the power of live performance to foster connection and strengthen community through shared artistic experience and opportunities for reflection and dialogue

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Bag & baggage productions is a social impact theatre company that employs artistic expression to elicit cultural connections and to unify the community through meaningful engagement and transformative learning opportunities.our vision is to bring the people of hillsboro together through live storytelling and community-building events, anchoring the cultural arts district while driving economic prosperity for historic downtown hillsboro.

    $419,992 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $419,992.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($472k) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 75 ($927k) Expenses 140 ($662k) Net assets 119 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 63 ($776k) Expenses 177 ($838k) Net assets 115 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 48 ($593k) Expenses 144 ($682k) Net assets 108 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 30 ($369k) Expenses 82 ($387k) Net assets 107 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 30 ($377k) Expenses 110 ($519k) Net assets 97 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 45 ($554k) Expenses 152 ($719k) Net assets 85 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 70 ($865k) Expenses 150 ($708k) Net assets 97 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 85 ($1.1M) Expenses 168 ($794k) Net assets 116 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (85)Expenses (168)Net assets (116)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $2.2M to $2.4M (+12%).

$2.2M
$2.4M
$2.4M
$2.2M
$2.2M
$2.1M
$1.9M
$2.0M
$2.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 4% · 2019 12% · 2020 18% · 2021 41% · 2022 58% · 2023 59% · 2024 19% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of Bag and Baggage Productions’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$766k
’17
$266k
’18
−$62k
’19
−$89k
’20
−$19k
’21
−$143k
’22
−$165k
’23
$158k
’24
$257k
’25
7.4
months of
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

Bianca Mccarthy

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+5+5+0+0+3+6+3+3
No longer listed·11354852
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $127k → $152k.

5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Bag and Baggage Productions’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

Bag and Baggage Productions has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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 Bag and Baggage Productions.

22%
largest funder
55%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 32% · 2019 44% · 2020 42% · 2021 31% · 2022 43% · 2023 23% — 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

47% of Bag and Baggage Productions's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

86% of Bag and Baggage Productions's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

WA
WI
NY
OR
CA
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $380k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Bag and Baggage Productions runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Bag and Baggage Productions

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

53% of spending goes to programs.

Program 53%Management 35%Fundraising 12%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

OR

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Questions and answers

Who funds Bag and Baggage Productions?
Bag and Baggage Productions (Oregon) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,519,057 to it, the largest being JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION ($333,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Bag and Baggage Productions have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,519,057 in grants to Bag and Baggage Productions, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Bag and Baggage Productions?
JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $333,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Bag and Baggage Productions 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 25 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