Oregon · Nonprofit
OREGON CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS
OREGON CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,058 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($171,509). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $258k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $528k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts does
Mission
To provide the general public with exhibitions, resources, and public programs about the history and practice of photography
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitons: blue sky's primary program service is to provide monthy exhibitions to regional and national and international artists working in the medium of photography. Typically we hold 2 exhibitions each month. Blue sky provides one-way return shipping costs for the artist's work; in addition, during the past tax year, each artist received a $1,250 honorarium to be used at their discretion: for travel to portland, for photo printing or shipping costs, or for other expenses. This exhibition program is free and open to the public and to our members. Additionally, blue sky features a year-long exhibition program in our viewing drawers. Approximately 60 nw artists participate in this juried exhibition. 10 prints per artist are available for viewing by the public. These prints are for sale. Artists receive a 50% commission for each sale. During this fiscal year, we mounted 19 solo exhibitions and offered 20 exhibitions in the pacific northwest drawers. We welcomed 7,908 visitors to the gallery.
$224,025 spent$15,676 earned by the program72% of program spendingDialogue and publications: to extend both the exhibition content and the reach wide audiences. Each exhibiting artist is offered the opportunity to give a presentation about their work during their exhibition. These talks are free and are attended on average by 33-40 people (when in-person) and nearly 200 are available on our you tube channel. Artists may also deliver artist talks on zoom, available to farther-reaching audiences. Our goals is support a hybrid approach to our programs where possible. Other in-gallery programs include: portfolio walks, artist book presentations, short artist presentations, panel discussion. Other types of virtual or digital programs include: gallery tours, panel discussions, interviews, zoom workshops. This period allowed us to focus on programs that we didn't otherwise have time to offer. We hosted 10 engaging artist talks or panel discussions in the gallery and another 8 lively artist talks on zoom. For combined in-gallery and virtual (live) programs, we had 1800 attendees.
$82,281 spent26% of program spendingIn addition to the 120 artists presented in pacific northwest drawers, there were 19 no strings exhibitions, 2 sitka center artists in residence on community walls in the gallery and 5 regional artists in our main exhibition spaces for a total of 86 artists local to the pacific northwest on the walls and in the drawers.
$5,143 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $311,449.
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.
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 $2.2M to $2.0M (−13%).
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 9% · 2018 6% · 2019 12% · 2020 8% · 2021 24% · 2022 18% · 2023 12% · 2024 9% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Kristin Solomon
Executive director
Board chair
Christopher Rauschenberg
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $36k → $61k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS’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
OREGON CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 34% · 2019 27% · 2020 35% · 2021 35% · 2022 30% · 2023 63% — 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
67% of OREGON CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
98% of OREGON CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121k 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.
Government funding OREGON CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$35k
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 CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 OREGON CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS: 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 OREGON CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS?
- OREGON CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,058 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($171,509). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OREGON CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $528,058 in grants to OREGON CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS?
- Regional Arts & Culture Council is the largest funder on record, with $171,509 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGON CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS 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 11 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