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KICKSTAND COMEDY

KICKSTAND COMEDY (Oregon) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,964 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($75,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$662k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$163k
Net assets
$276k
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Kickstand Comedy does

Mission

Enriching lives of performers and audiences via the genre of comedy and the comedic arts. We work to remove barriers, create equity, and provide opportunities for performance, education and laughter through dynamic shows and community outreach.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. During the 2024-2025 fiscal year, Kickstand Comedy focused on refining operational roles while shifting strategies to support program sustainability. Kickstand maintained high engagement with diverse audiences, providing low-barrier co-produced events to attract producers, performers, students, and guests typically excluded by cost barriers.

    $496,687 spent$508,865 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $496,687.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($139k) Expenses 100 ($146k) Net assets 100 ($40k)2021 Revenue 135 ($189k) Expenses 93 ($136k) Net assets 230 ($93k)2022 Revenue 164 ($228k) Expenses 156 ($228k) Net assets 229 ($92k)2023 Revenue 220 ($307k) Expenses 211 ($309k) Net assets 224 ($90k)2024 Revenue 470 ($656k) Expenses 349 ($511k) Net assets 585 ($236k)2025 Revenue 475 ($662k) Expenses 425 ($622k) Net assets 684 ($276k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (475)Expenses (425)Net assets (684)

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 $92k to $513k (+455%).

$65k
$113k
$92k
$513k
$724k
$491k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 21% · 2023 12% · 2024 16% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7k
’20
$52k
’21
−$169
’22
−$2k
’23
$145k
’24
$40k
’25
1.4
months of
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

Stein Paul

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed83811
Joined·+2+8+7
No longer listed·734
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $31k → $6k.

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 KICKSTAND COMEDY’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

KICKSTAND COMEDY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

39% 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 KICKSTAND COMEDY.

46%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 82% · 2021 82% · 2022 100% · 2023 83% — broadly stable.

“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

20% of KICKSTAND COMEDY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

98% of KICKSTAND COMEDY's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

OR
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding KICKSTAND COMEDY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $38k on record.

State$38k
24
25
Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$38k

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 KICKSTAND COMEDY

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 19%Fundraising 2%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OR

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KICKSTAND COMEDY: 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 KICKSTAND COMEDY?
KICKSTAND COMEDY (Oregon) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,964 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($75,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KICKSTAND COMEDY have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $162,964 in grants to KICKSTAND COMEDY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KICKSTAND COMEDY?
MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KICKSTAND COMEDY 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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