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CHORAL ARTS ENSEMBLE OF PORTLAND

CHORAL ARTS ENSEMBLE OF PORTLAND (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,537 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($12,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$83k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$28k
Net assets
$92k
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Choral Arts Ensemble of Portland does

Mission

Music education through public performance, oratory, visual aids, and written materials.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Performed 10 choral performances with a total of 1,682 people in attendance

    $62,519 spent
    87% of program spending
  2. Member dues for student/unemployed recent graduates, instituted a "pay- what-you-can" program to assist underseserved community members with access to concerts at an attendance fee they can afford

    $9,179 spent
    13% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $71,698.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($57k) Expenses 100 ($48k) Net assets 100 ($29k)2018 Revenue 105 ($59k) Expenses 93 ($45k) Net assets 150 ($43k)2019 Revenue 120 ($68k) Expenses 134 ($65k) Net assets 160 ($46k)2020 Revenue 129 ($73k) Expenses 118 ($57k) Net assets 215 ($62k)2021 Revenue 87 ($49k) Expenses 59 ($29k) Net assets 286 ($83k)2022 Revenue 82 ($46k) Expenses 97 ($47k) Net assets 284 ($82k)2023 Revenue 127 ($72k) Expenses 139 ($67k) Net assets 300 ($87k)2024 Revenue 129 ($73k) Expenses 161 ($78k) Net assets 283 ($82k)2025 Revenue 146 ($83k) Expenses 148 ($72k) Net assets 317 ($92k)
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Revenue (146)Expenses (148)Net assets (317)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $66k to $88k (+35%).

$33k
$50k
$68k
$66k
$88k
$89k
$90k
$85k
$95k
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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.

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2018
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2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’17
$14k
’18
$3k
’19
$16k
’20
$21k
’21
−$741
’22
$5k
’23
−$5k
’24
$11k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $144.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 CHORAL ARTS ENSEMBLE OF PORTLAND’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

CHORAL ARTS ENSEMBLE OF PORTLAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

67% 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 CHORAL ARTS ENSEMBLE OF PORTLAND.

44%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 81% · 2022 84% · 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

67% of CHORAL ARTS ENSEMBLE OF PORTLAND'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. Of the $9k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Oregon funders.

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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. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Organizations like CHORAL ARTS ENSEMBLE OF PORTLAND

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.

Public support

89%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHORAL ARTS ENSEMBLE OF PORTLAND?
CHORAL ARTS ENSEMBLE OF PORTLAND (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,537 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($12,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHORAL ARTS ENSEMBLE OF PORTLAND have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $27,537 in grants to CHORAL ARTS ENSEMBLE OF PORTLAND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHORAL ARTS ENSEMBLE OF PORTLAND?
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $12,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHORAL ARTS ENSEMBLE OF PORTLAND 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 6 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