Oregon · Nonprofit
OREGON REPERTORY SINGERS
OREGON REPERTORY SINGERS (Oregon) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $558,697 to it, the largest being JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION ($132,200). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $806k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $559k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Oregon Repertory Singers does
Mission
Established in 1974 and celebrating a long history of choral music excellence, Oregon Repertory Singers (ors) consists of a professional-caliber adult choir that performs three annual programs, and offers an education and performance-based youth choir music program unmatched in the region for children ages 4 through 18. In addition to local performances, ors tours in international choral festivals and competitions every two to three years.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Oregon Repertory Singers youth choirs (orsyc), established in 1994, provides music education and choral performance opportunities for children ages 5 to 18. Research has shown that children who sing in choirs perform better in school, develop strong social skills, and build confidence that benefits them throughout their lives. Orsyc uses the kodaly method in weekly musicianship classes accompanying rehearsals, a fun and engaging approach that teaches children to sing what they see and write what they hear. The youth choirs include several age-appropriate co-ed groups who perform several entertaining concerts throughout the year.
$330,607 spent$220,465 earned by the program62% of program spendingOregon Repertory Singers' adult choir presents repertoire both rare and recognizable, encompassing a multitude of eras, languages, and musical styles. With over 100 members, the adult choir is comprised of a close community of singers from all walks of life and many different communities throughout northwest oregon and southwest washington. Both experienced and versatile, the choir performs a wide variety of programming that promotes music from the newest generation of great composers alongside celebrated choral masterworks, as well as music from other cultures and countries, all with the earnest hope to leave audiences both entertained and inspired.
$205,867 spent$124,164 earned by the program38% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $536,474.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $512k to $1.2M (+128%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 23% · 2022 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of OREGON REPERTORY SINGERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Lauren Bryan
Executive director
Board chair
Doug Rank
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $33k → $83k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 REPERTORY SINGERS’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 REPERTORY SINGERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
46% 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 REPERTORY SINGERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 46% · 2019 74% · 2020 49% · 2021 41% · 2022 31% · 2023 31% — 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
20% of OREGON REPERTORY SINGERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
88% of OREGON REPERTORY SINGERS's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $255k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 REPERTORY SINGERS holds deeper cash reserves 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 OREGON REPERTORY SINGERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $41k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$41k
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 REPERTORY SINGERS
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 REPERTORY SINGERS: 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 REPERTORY SINGERS?
- OREGON REPERTORY SINGERS (Oregon) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $558,697 to it, the largest being JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION ($132,200). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OREGON REPERTORY SINGERS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $558,697 in grants to OREGON REPERTORY SINGERS, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON REPERTORY SINGERS?
- JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $132,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGON REPERTORY SINGERS 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 21 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