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NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC

NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC (Oregon) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,396,996 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($678,614). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.8M
Revenue FY2025
21
Funders on record
$3.4M
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
11/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%

Against its field

NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($319k)2018 Revenue 114 ($2.4M) Expenses 90 ($1.9M) Net assets 254 ($809k)2019 Revenue 118 ($2.5M) Expenses 107 ($2.3M) Net assets 354 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 128 ($2.7M) Expenses 98 ($2.1M) Net assets 540 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 77 ($1.6M) Expenses 77 ($1.6M) Net assets 535 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 109 ($2.3M) Expenses 86 ($1.8M) Net assets 680 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 146 ($3.0M) Expenses 122 ($2.6M) Net assets 823 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 129 ($2.7M) Expenses 167 ($3.5M) Net assets 607 ($1.9M)2025 Revenue 137 ($2.8M) Expenses 150 ($3.2M) Net assets 505 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (137)Expenses (150)Net assets (505)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 25% · 2022 23% · 2023 15% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

35% of NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$27k
17
$490k
18
$199k
19
$595k
20
$18k
21
$462k
22
$458k
23
$846k
24
$325k
25
0.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $53k → $928k.

7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)41% 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 NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC’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

NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

62% 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 NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC.

20%
largest funder
53%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 33% · 2019 59% · 2020 46% · 2021 48% · 2022 46% · 2023 27%diversifying over time.

“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

64% of NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

87% of NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

WA
WI
OR

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

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Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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.

03Its place in the field

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 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $54k on record — $40k federal, $14k state.

Federal$40k
grants $40kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$40k
State$14k
Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$14k

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 NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 19%Fundraising 3%

Governance

9
board members
78%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

80%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC: 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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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 NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC?
NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC (Oregon) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,396,996 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($678,614). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $3,396,996 in grants to NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC?
Regional Arts & Culture Council is the largest funder on record, with $678,614 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 21funders 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