Oregon · Nonprofit
BIG MOUTH SOCIETY
BIG MOUTH SOCIETY (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,005 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $30k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $31k
What Big Mouth Society does
Mission
Musical education, community & performance: Big Mouth Society is a community-supported collective of musicians that brings unique and thought-provoking projects to a diverse audience. Our members are servants to the larger goal of supporting local artists and bringing community together through curated artistic experiences. We host live performances and projects throughout the year, in person and online, from informal salons and festive fundraisers to more traditional mainstage concerts. We represent voices from countries around the world and are committed to being a champion of new music, rhetorical music and social change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Fair and timely payment to professional musicians and other artists participating in mainstage performances and other public events for the benefit of the big mouth community and general public. We develop long-term relationships with musicians and pay them fairly and on time. We are committed to equity in community arts and creating a sustainable culture in portland for professional musicians. In fy2023 we hired 25+ professional musicians and other artists and compensated them promptly and equitably. Fy2023 artist payments also include 50% payments to several artists participating in our june 2024 show, the fruits of our labor.
$49,320 spent78% of program spendingPublic events and other programming highlighting the work of oregon artists and featuring new works by living composers for big mouth audiences. In fy2023, Big Mouth Society's public events included the common opus, our multi-year commissioned project and original composition by artistic director emily lau, with one show in 07/2023 at portland'5 winningstad theatre for 220+ audience. We also recorded an album of the common opus, to be released in the near future. We presented queer & dear: echoes of queerness through song and sequins in two shows in 09/2023 at portland center stage ellyn bye studio theater for a combined 185+ audience, featuring 2 commissioned works by local composers.
$12,900 spent20% of program spendingBig mouth music ensemble recruitment, formation, education and weekly rehearsals leading to public programming for our audiences (described above). We are unique in that our ensembles include professional and amateur musicians of varied backgrounds. During fy2023, in preparation for our shows, we held weekly in-person rehearsals for 20+ studio musicians to support public programming, and rented rehearsal space in our community.
$1,395 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $63,615.
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 $68k to $31k (−54%).
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.
58% of BIG MOUTH SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $10k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BIG MOUTH SOCIETY’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
BIG MOUTH SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 BIG MOUTH SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of BIG MOUTH SOCIETY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
BIG MOUTH SOCIETY's revenue fell 51% between 2022 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding BIG MOUTH SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO FOR-PROFIT SUBRECIPIENT$3k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$2k
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 BIG MOUTH SOCIETY
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.
Public support
95%
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 BIG MOUTH SOCIETY: 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 BIG MOUTH SOCIETY?
- BIG MOUTH SOCIETY (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,005 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIG MOUTH SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,005 in grants to BIG MOUTH SOCIETY.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG MOUTH SOCIETY?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG MOUTH SOCIETY 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 2 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