Oregon · Nonprofit
KUKATONON
KUKATONON (Oregon) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,750 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($76,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $119k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $202k
- Net assets
- $12k
What Kukatonon does
Mission
To inspire confidence, commitment, and vitality amoung children, families, and communities; and to broaden awareness of african and african american cultural traditions throughout oregon.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Kukatonon offers cultural specific educational events to the community in order to further its missions and goals.
Since 2021, Kukatonon has supported oregon education with the student success act, offering space for youth and their families.
The summer academy for education and employment project designed by rural and urban development league offers portland children and families with an experimental learning and exploration program in the summer. This provides safe engagement with science, technology, research, engineering, arts, and mathmatics (stream) activities provided to children 6 to 15 years old. It also provides a workplace development and coaching program for 16 to 25 year olds for leadership development training and techniques for professional skilled coaches. Our community safety partners are located in the region, national and in africa.
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $26k to $69k (+164%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Zeenab Fowlk
Executive director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $38k → $27k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 KUKATONON’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
KUKATONON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 KUKATONON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 27% · 2019 67% · 2020 78% — growing more concentrated.
“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
0% of KUKATONON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 FY2020, 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
57% of KUKATONON'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 $86k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k 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.
Organizations like KUKATONON
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KUKATONON: 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 KUKATONON?
- KUKATONON (Oregon) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,750 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($76,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KUKATONON have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $201,750 in grants to KUKATONON, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KUKATONON?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $76,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KUKATONON 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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