Oregon · Nonprofit
COLUMBIA GORGE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
COLUMBIA GORGE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,676 to it, the largest being JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION ($48,400). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $230k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $198k
- Net assets
- $192k
What Columbia Gorge Orchestra Association does
Mission
To provide music and music education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided 26 performing arts concerts for the benefit of the general public in the columbia gorge. Total fy 2023-2024 attendance was 3,015 at 9 venues and with 125 artists.
$121,185 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $121,185.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $133k to $192k (+45%).
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: 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of COLUMBIA GORGE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $19k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 COLUMBIA GORGE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 funders by total. 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
COLUMBIA GORGE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 30% · 2019 60% · 2020 60% · 2021 69% · 2022 39% · 2023 47% — 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 COLUMBIA GORGE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
73% of COLUMBIA GORGE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $640 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
COLUMBIA GORGE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding COLUMBIA GORGE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$18k
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 COLUMBIA GORGE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 COLUMBIA GORGE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: 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 COLUMBIA GORGE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION?
- COLUMBIA GORGE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,676 to it, the largest being JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION ($48,400). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLUMBIA GORGE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $197,676 in grants to COLUMBIA GORGE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBIA GORGE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION?
- JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $48,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBIA GORGE ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION 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 14 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