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DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon
DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,600 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($48,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $124k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $134k
- Net assets
- $119k
What DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon does
Mission
The DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon's mission is to promote awareness and understanding of asian american and native hawaiian & pacific islander stories through independent film.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Disorient 2025 film festival:20th aniversary community film festival. Disorient 2025 was a hybrid festival with 573 unique attendees, 2252 tickets scanned. Showcased 111 films, including 4 films from past disorient festivals to honor the breadth of histories and stories that have been exhibited during the last 2 decades. Disorient shares awareness of asian american and native hawaiian/pacific islander narratives and representation as well as highlights social justice issues. Disorient 2025 theme was "reflections." preview screening february 15, 2025 of oregon premiere of "the motherload." filmmakers van tran nguyen and alex derwick were in attendance for their pacific northwest premiere. Live screening and filmmaker q&a's took place at the art house eugene during march 6-9, 2025. Virtual screenings were set up on eventive during march 10-23, 2025 with films open to audiences in oregon, washington, california, and hawaii. Festival awards and audience choice awards.
$92,511 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $92,511.
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 2022 to 2023, from $103k to $159k (+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.
82% of DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Pamela Quan
Exec Dir/Treas
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $46k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon’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
DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 64% · 2022 51% · 2023 54% — 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.
Where its funders are
71% of DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k 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
DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$29k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SUPPLIES$11k
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 DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon
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
90%
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 DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon: 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 DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon?
- DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,600 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($48,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $133,600 in grants to DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $48,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon 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 2022–2025), 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