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OREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE

OREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE (Oregon) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $552,649 to it, the largest being JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION ($229,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$766k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$553k
Net assets
$2.5M
10/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Oregon Contemporary Theatre does

Mission

Oregon Contemporary Theatre creates outstanding performances and programs that inspire curiosity, challenge expectation, encourage dialogue and support positive change.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Oregon Contemporary Theatre creates outstanding performances and programs that inspire curiosity, challenge expectation, encourage dialogue and support positive change.

    $661,332 spent$328,787 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $661,332.

02The 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 ($543k) Expenses 100 ($553k) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 100 ($543k) Expenses 102 ($564k) Net assets 99 ($1.8M)2019 Revenue 138 ($750k) Expenses 109 ($601k) Net assets 107 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 112 ($610k) Expenses 112 ($619k) Net assets 107 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 110 ($596k) Expenses 53 ($293k) Net assets 124 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 156 ($847k) Expenses 106 ($589k) Net assets 138 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 118 ($643k) Expenses 137 ($756k) Net assets 131 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 154 ($838k) Expenses 131 ($724k) Net assets 139 ($2.5M)2025 Revenue 141 ($766k) Expenses 139 ($771k) Net assets 139 ($2.5M)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (139)Net assets (139)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.1M to $2.4M (+13%).

$2.1M
$2.0M
$2.2M
$2.1M
$2.4M
$2.6M
$2.5M
$2.6M
$2.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 4% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 41% · 2022 48% · 2023 1% · 2024 6% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

35% of OREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$10k
’17
−$21k
’18
$148k
’19
−$9k
’20
$302k
’21
$259k
’22
−$114k
’23
$114k
’24
−$5k
’25
11
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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.

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Listed171616161315151615
Joined·+4+2+4+1+5+0+4+1
No longer listed·52443032
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $31k → $54k.

3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 CONTEMPORARY THEATRE’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 CONTEMPORARY THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41%
largest funder
82%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 69% · 2019 59% · 2020 51% · 2021 64% · 2022 39% · 2023 55% — 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

56% of OREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

60% of OREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

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MT
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OR
CT
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FL

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. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve11.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding OREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $346k on record.

State$346k
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Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$295k
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$51k

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 CONTEMPORARY 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 11%Fundraising 3%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

81%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

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Questions and answers

Who funds OREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE?
OREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE (Oregon) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $552,649 to it, the largest being JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION ($229,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $552,649 in grants to OREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE?
JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $229,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OREGON CONTEMPORARY 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 16 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