Oregon · Nonprofit
NORTH POLE STUDIO
NORTH POLE STUDIO (Oregon) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $824,981 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($254,100). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $500k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $825k
- Net assets
- $524k
What North Pole Studio does
Mission
We support careers in the arts and exist to increase opportunities for artists with autism and intellectual/developmental disabilities to thrive as active members of the arts community. We foster self-determination and facilitate meaningful connections through total engagement in the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our professional studio program provides artists with autism and intellectual/developmental disabilities who are 18 years and older with an accessible, supported studio space to pursue a self-determined art practice. In this program artists access the space, materials, support, and advocacy to produce, exhibit and sell their artwork. Through individualized programming, we serve a diverse community of artists with complex physical, communication, behavioral, and social neurodiversities. This program is supported by specialized art facilitators, who exist to facilitate personal and professional opportunities aligned with each individual's goals and dreams. In 2023 we brought in $28,600 in income from our professional studio program. In 2024, we served 25 artists in the professional studio program. 100% of our artists with collections sold original artwork, and 100% of these artists had the opportunity to exhibit either locally or nationally. In addition to exhibitions, we facilitated paid opportunities for artists to teach and lecture in the community. We supported every artist with maintaining a digital portfolio of work, and created an individualized webpage for each individual to…
$332,692 spent$28,600 earned by the program65% of program spendingOur weekly art classes are offered each quarter, and are available for artists with autism or I/dd who are 16 years and older. This program is specifically designed to serve "transition-aged" young adults who are between the ages of 16-25 and are particularly vulnerable to unemployment, social isolation, and mental health challenges upon graduating from high school. These classes cover diverse tools and techniques, providing students with the opportunity to explore a wide range of art-making methods. Our workshops are offered on a weekly basis, and lessons are designed based on artist request and are either hosted in the studio or at a partnership site. These workshops provide an accessible alternative to community offerings (such as figure drawing, pottery, digital drawing) that are often inaccessible to individuals with disabilities. In 2024, we offered over 36 opportunities to a diverse community of art students across four, quarterly class terms. Through these classes, we delivered lessons across a wide range of art methods and materials including drawing, sculpture, printmaking, fiber arts, pottery, glassworking, and more. We partnered with over 25 community artists, who…
$87,012 spent$13,300 earned by the program17% of program spendingOur community programming promotes the inclusion of artists with autism and I/dd in the arts community, and seeks to increase public understanding about this population's experiences. In 2024, our studio was located in nw marine artworks, portland's largest collaborative of professional artist studios. In this space, we ensure that artists with disabilities are fully integrated into the professional arts community and we facilitate meaningful connections between artists with and without disabilities. Through community partnerships, we increase representation of artists with disabilities in exhibition spaces, events, and design opportunities. In 2024, worked with over 25 community partners to facilitate exhibition and professional development opportunities for artists. We facilitated 21 exhibition opportunities across local and national spaces, including competitive and reputable professional galleries such as the reser center for the arts and the outsider art fair nyc. All exhibitions were widely attended by individuals with and without disabilities, and generated art sales and visibility around artist's stories. We partnered with schools such as pps and victory academy through…
$92,130 spent$56,570 earned by the program18% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $511,834.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $360k to $554k (+54%).
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
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
Carissa Burkett
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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) — 33% 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 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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. $270k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
NORTH POLE STUDIO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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
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
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH POLE STUDIO?
- NORTH POLE STUDIO (Oregon) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $824,981 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($254,100). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH POLE STUDIO have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $824,981 in grants to NORTH POLE STUDIO, 11 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.
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 26 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing