Oregon · Nonprofit
OREGON BALLET THEATRE
OREGON BALLET THEATRE (Oregon) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,511,895 to it, the largest being JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION ($1,900,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.9M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $9.5M
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What Oregon Ballet Theatre does
Mission
Oregon Ballet Theatre is committed to sharing our passion for the expressive power of ballet, inspiring an enduring appreciation of dance, and connecting in meaningful ways to our community through excellence in performance, training, and educational programs. Oregon Ballet Theatre is the largest professional ballet company in oregon, employing nearly 200 people and attracting artists from around the globe with our reputation for excellence. The company is rooted in the traditions of classical ballet, with a repertoire that ranges from the great classics to premieres from some of the most exciting choreographic voices in the field today. Our mission is dedicated to the vitality of, and access to, world-class ballet performance and training in our region. In addition to our 5-show main stage season, we train dancers from 4 years old to 80 years old.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Productions - annual presentations of the resident professional ballet company and guest artists in a series of subscription and single ticket performances.
$6,803,641 spent$4,762,990 earned by the program81% of program spendingSchool - professional training for dancers interested in a career in ballet and dance instruction for individuals of all ages. The school also serves as a training ground for dancers entering the ballet company.
$1,404,069 spent$1,506,573 earned by the program17% of program spendingEducational outreach - participation in the young audiences and other programs through presentation of dance performances and education in dance for schoolchildren.
$223,255 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,430,965.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.4M to $8.5M (+33%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 11% · 2021 40% · 2022 36% · 2023 13% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of OREGON BALLET THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Melody Rose
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $501k → $1.5M.
10 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 OREGON BALLET THEATRE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 funders by total. 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
OREGON BALLET THEATRE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
41% 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 OREGON BALLET THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 27% · 2019 24% · 2020 25% · 2021 19% · 2022 14% · 2023 37% — 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
62% of OREGON BALLET THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 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
75% of OREGON BALLET THEATRE's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
OREGON BALLET THEATRE's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 27 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OREGON BALLET THEATRE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $95k on record — $95k federal, $29 state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$95k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $29
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 OREGON BALLET THEATRE
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OREGON BALLET THEATRE?
- OREGON BALLET THEATRE (Oregon) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,511,895 to it, the largest being JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION ($1,900,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OREGON BALLET THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $9,511,895 in grants to OREGON BALLET THEATRE, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON BALLET THEATRE?
- JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGON BALLET THEATRE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 55 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