Oregon · Nonprofit
NORTH POLE STUDIO
NORTH POLE STUDIO (Oregon) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $808,913 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($254,100). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NORTH POLE STUDIO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
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.
- James and Shirley Rippey Family Foundationshared funders
- Cec Artslink Incportfolio match
- Phyllis C Wattis Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
86% of NORTH POLE STUDIO’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. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $60k → $203k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 NORTH POLE STUDIO’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
NORTH POLE STUDIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 NORTH POLE STUDIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 42% · 2022 69% · 2023 40% — 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.
Where its funders are
76% of NORTH POLE STUDIO's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $253k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
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. Your 26 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- James and Shirley Rippey Family Foundationshared fundersOR · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Cec Artslink Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phyllis C Wattis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Starseed Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Performance Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Conru Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jerome Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Map Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glenn H Kawasaki Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rdk Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Steven McGeady Foundationportfolio 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.
Government funding NORTH POLE STUDIO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $56k on record — $20k federal, $36k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$36k
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 NORTH POLE STUDIO
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.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTH POLE STUDIO: 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 NORTH POLE STUDIO?
- NORTH POLE STUDIO (Oregon) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $808,913 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($254,100). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH POLE STUDIO have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $808,913 in grants to NORTH POLE STUDIO, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH POLE STUDIO?
- MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $254,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH POLE STUDIO 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 26funders 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