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.
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· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Regional Arts & Culture Councilshared funders
- Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for The Artsportfolio match
- Genesis Inspiration Foundationportfolio match
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Regional Arts & Culture Councilshared fundersOR · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for The Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Genesis Inspiration Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- WC and EJ Thornton Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lake Region Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Burning Man Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Creative Pinellas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Springboard for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Fairfax County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hyde Park Art Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mid-America Arts Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FINE ART STARTS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing