Oregon · Nonprofit
From the Ground Up A Research and Development Center for New Art
From the Ground Up A Research and Development Center for New Art (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,000 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($110,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $206k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $135k
- Net assets
- $60k
What From the Ground Up A Research and Development Center for New Art does
Mission
New art training and production
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Created by resident alumni Andrea Parson we have supported the production and touring of this profound new work about grief and how we cope when faced with adversity.
$10,393 spent$5,526 earned by the program32% of program spendingBringing our unique approach to art making across the state of Oregon & hosting other innovative teaching artists here in Portland
$9,469 spent$13,932 earned by the program29% of program spendingProvided mentorship training and artistic support to 8 artists over 6 months. Each resident received the necessary support to create an emerging new one-act performance presented at our Annual New Works Festival in June.
$5,697 spent$22,290 earned by the program18% of program spendingSupport artist touring co-presenting events and producing world premiers
$4,574 spent14% of program spendingProduced three new full evenings of performances all showcased at our New Works Festival. Each artist receives personalized one-on-one mentorship to fully realize their evening of performance.
$2,309 spent$1,438 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,442.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $7k to $61k (+824%).
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.
79% of From the Ground Up A Research and Development Center for New Art’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 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 From the Ground Up A Research and Development Center for New Art’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
From the Ground Up A Research and Development Center for New Art leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 From the Ground Up A Research and Development Center for New Art.
“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
81% of From the Ground Up A Research and Development Center for New Art's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Oregon funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k 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
From the Ground Up A Research and Development Center for New Art runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Organizations like From the Ground Up A Research and Development Center for New Art
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
21% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for From the Ground Up A Research and Development Center for New Art: 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 From the Ground Up A Research and Development Center for New Art?
- From the Ground Up A Research and Development Center for New Art (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,000 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($110,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does From the Ground Up A Research and Development Center for New Art have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $135,000 in grants to From the Ground Up A Research and Development Center for New Art, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of From the Ground Up A Research and Development Center for New Art?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like From the Ground Up A Research and Development Center for New Art 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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