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METROARTS INC DBA COGNIZART

METROARTS INC DBA COGNIZART (Oregon) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,840 to it, the largest being OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation ($268,200). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$118k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$668k
Net assets
$0
9/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Metroarts Inc Dba Cognizart does

Mission

Our mission is to teach creative and critical thinking processes through innovative arts education programs and curricula.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Cognizant 360 arts camp - over 130 kids, ages 6-12, attended 360 arts camp. An additional 22 counselors ages 13-18 participated. The camp gives kids a chance to create in all the art forms. 30% of campers attended on scholarship.

    $104,485 spentof which $9,885 as grants
    77% of program spending
  2. 31st young artists debut! Competition & showcase - 13 young artists debut! Winners participated in the program including four visual artists, six classical musicians, a dancer, and a taiko ensemble participated. Winners were between the ages of 10-17.

    $30,563 spent
    23% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $135,048.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($202k) Expenses 100 ($205k) Net assets 100 ($135k)2020 Revenue 146 ($296k) Expenses 62 ($127k) Net assets 226 ($305k)2021 Revenue 106 ($214k) Expenses 100 ($205k) Net assets 232 ($314k)2022 Revenue 102 ($206k) Expenses 103 ($210k) Net assets 229 ($309k)2023 Revenue 64 ($129k) Expenses 102 ($210k) Net assets 169 ($229k)2024 Revenue 89 ($179k) Expenses 95 ($194k) Net assets 158 ($214k)2025 Revenue 58 ($118k) Expenses 77 ($159k) Net assets 0 ($0)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (58)Expenses (77)Net assets (0)

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 $214k to $0 (−100%).

$136k
$305k
$314k
$309k
$229k
$214k
$0
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 20% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’19
$168k
’20
$8k
’21
−$5k
’22
−$81k
’23
−$15k
’24
−$41k
’25
18
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

Shannon Emory

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

2019202020212022
Listed8966
Joined·+1+0+0
No longer listed·030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $41k → $50k.

6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 METROARTS INC DBA COGNIZART’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

METROARTS INC DBA COGNIZART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

84% 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 METROARTS INC DBA COGNIZART.

40%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 54% · 2019 50% · 2020 29% · 2021 41% · 2022 36% · 2023 93% — 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

50% of METROARTS INC DBA COGNIZART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

88% of METROARTS INC DBA COGNIZART's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

WI
OR

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

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’19
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’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $294k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Organizations like METROARTS INC DBA COGNIZART

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.

Public support

36%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

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Questions and answers

Who funds METROARTS INC DBA COGNIZART?
METROARTS INC DBA COGNIZART (Oregon) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,840 to it, the largest being OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation ($268,200). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does METROARTS INC DBA COGNIZART have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $667,840 in grants to METROARTS INC DBA COGNIZART, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of METROARTS INC DBA COGNIZART?
OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $268,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like METROARTS INC DBA COGNIZART 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 13 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