Oregon · Nonprofit
FINE ART STARTS
FINE ART STARTS (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $166k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Fine Art Starts does
Mission
To provide art education to K-8 students in public, private and charter schools through enrichment programs. Public art shows and events held annually.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
After school enrichment classes and summer programming for 160 K-8 students. Weekly after school classes were held at 4 different elementary schools (public, charter, and private). These classes benefitted the students, and included a few families who required financial assistance for access to fine art educational instruction.
$163,013 spent100% of program spendingSummer Art Camp provided fine art education in a day camp setting, with a reduced rate or scholarships for students in families enduring temporary or ongoing financial hardship. We served 137 students over a 5-week period through camps from 8am-5pm, and concluding each week with an art show open to the public. We also received a $4500 grant from RACC (Regional Arts and Culture Council) to cover the cost of chairs for the campers, as well as Apple pencils for campers to borrow during the Digital Art camp week.
Public art show events hosted by the organization in December and May. Events welcomed over 300 people, public invited and included. December show is indoors and includes the childrens' art on display in a gallery-setting. In October we also opened a public art space and held an opening with free events, workshops and experiences for the public, which served approximately 125 people over the course of several weeks.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $163,013.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sascha Newell
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FINE ART STARTS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FINE ART STARTS's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FINE ART STARTS receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FINE ART STARTS
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In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FINE ART STARTS: 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 FINE ART STARTS?
- FINE ART STARTS (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FINE ART STARTS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,500 in grants to FINE ART STARTS.
- Who is the largest funder of FINE ART STARTS?
- MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FINE ART STARTS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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