Oregon · Nonprofit
Color Outside The Lines
Color Outside The Lines (Oregon) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $385,700 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($168,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $142k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $386k
- Net assets
- $83k
What Color Outside The Lines does
Mission
Color Outside the Lines is a nonprofit committed to creating pathways of hope and healing for foster and at-risk youth through arts enrichment, mentorship, and nature experiences. We believe these experiences are powerful tools for emotional growth and mental well-being for youth that have experienced hardship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Color Outside the Lines provides arts, culture, and outdoor programming to youth in need as a means of supporting mental and emotional wellness. Program activities include in-person art classes and workshops, distribution of art supplies for home use, mentorship and conversation-based enrichment focused on cultural belonging, and access to nature through outdoor camps and excursions.
$96,816 spentof which $37,250 as grants$192,422 earned by the program72% of program spendingWe created five public murals across urban and rural Oregon, developed through collaboration between professional artist mentors, youth, and broader community.
$36,827 spentof which $25,000 as grants$37,170 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $133,643.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $49k to $179k (+264%).
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: 2020 84% · 2021 27% · 2024 96% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Color Outside The Lines’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Anna Barlow
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $41k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 Color Outside The Lines’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
Color Outside The Lines leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 Color Outside The Lines.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 43% · 2021 61% · 2022 60% · 2023 63% — 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
33% of Color Outside The Lines's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 19% give in more than one year at all.
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
50% of Color Outside The Lines'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 $192k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $194k 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
Color Outside The Lines is better cushioned than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Color Outside The Lines receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$6k
- FACILITIES MAINTENANCE$4k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$4k
- BUILDINGS & IMPROVEMENTS>=$5K$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 Color Outside The Lines
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Color Outside The Lines: 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 Color Outside The Lines?
- Color Outside The Lines (Oregon) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $385,700 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($168,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Color Outside The Lines have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $385,700 in grants to Color Outside The Lines, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Color Outside The Lines?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $168,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Color Outside The Lines 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 16 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