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CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE

CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2018
$200k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$1.6M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Center for Contemporary Art & Culture does

Mission

To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.

Program

Professionally curated exhibitions focusing on artists of regional, national and international significance. The museum has hosted the first public exhibitions of several acclaimed west coast artists.a permanent collection of nearly 1,000 pieces that illuminate the history of craft in the western united states, allowing the museum to serve as a cultural and educational resource. The majority of pieces in the collection have been donated, demonstrating the museums importance to artists and collectors.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

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 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($31k) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 11 ($200k) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 115 ($1.6M)
20172018
Revenue (11)Expenses (0)Net assets (115)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 $1.4M to $1.6M (+15%).

$1.4M
$1.6M
20172018
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.8M
’17
$200k
’18

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.

201720182020
Listed352819
Joined·+14·
No longer listed·21·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE’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.

Where its funders are

100% of CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

OR

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE's revenue fell 89% between 2017 and 2018.

Operating margin100% · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)−89% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,009 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2018

Organizations like CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE

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In Oregon

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

39%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Pacific Northwest College of Art · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE: 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 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE?
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,000 in grants to CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE.
Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE?
Regional Arts & Culture Council is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 1 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