Oregon · Nonprofit
EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST
EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST (Oregon) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,553 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($59,398). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $333k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $394k
- Net assets
- $174k
What EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST does
Mission
Eastern oregon regional arts council has advanced its mission to "inspire interest and participation in the arts in our rural communities through education, exhibits, and cultural experiences." it is a community-based arts organization, offering accessible arts programming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Eastern oregon regional arts council (dba art center east)manages and coordinates a wide range of on-site art classes year-round for youth and adults, including under-served/'at-risk' populations through various county/city agency partnerships. Offerings include: art classes, music ensembles & private lessons, wellness & movement classes. The center serves as the area's only public exhibit venue for working artists. The gallery serves multiple purposes: to support working artists and to offer community members a chance to learn about and engage with fine arts. Working artists are able to sell their work through exhibiting in one of the two gallery spaces or in the gift gallery. The center also manages a regional outreach program called artists in rural schools (airs), bringing sequential arts learning experiences to low-income schools (title I). Airs places teaching artists throughout its 10-county service area in eastern oregon to work with k-12 students.
$246,376 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $246,376.
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 2018 to 2019, from $247k to $80k (−67%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 2% · 2020 15% · 2021 45% · 2022 20% · 2023 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST’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. 2 of the last 9 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
Darcy Dolge
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $13k → $110k.
2 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST’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
EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
31% 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 EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 100% · 2019 38% · 2020 46% · 2021 25% · 2022 32% · 2023 15% — 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
50% of EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
87% of EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k 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
EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $225k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$206k
- TRAINING, EDUCATION OR INSTRUCTION SRVC$19k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$500
- OFFICE SERVICES$360
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 EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST
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
78% 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 EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST: 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 EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST?
- EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST (Oregon) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,553 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($59,398). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $393,553 in grants to EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $59,398 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST 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 21 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