Oregon · Nonprofit
PassinArt - A Theater Company
PassinArt - A Theater Company (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,691,880 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($753,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $510k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $123k
What PassinArt - A Theater Company does
Mission
PassinArt: A Theatre Company is an African American producing theater company whose mission is to entertain, educate and inspire artists and audiences while addressing critical issues facing our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
PassinArt hosted a successful festival attended by more than 400 people from local, regional, and national communities. The festival screened 37 films and presented over 25 readings of new plays. It also featured a special premiere reading of a new play written and performed by our celebrity ambassador, award-winning actor and director Regina Taylor. This season also marked PassinArts return to the community with its mainstage production of Black Nativity by Langston Hughes, presented at Alberta Abbey to an audience of 1,700. To strengthen the season, PassinArt expanded its local marketing efforts, including outreach to schools, community groups, other theaters, and the broader public. Our Youth Theater Camp offered three five-week sessions in partnership with the New Columbia housing community and Home Forward, where we saw increased participation. Home Forward serves Multnomah County as part of the Housing Authorities supported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The camp has consistently served Black students ages 8 to 11 and their families, and it is set to expand in 2026 to include more high school students as well.
$403,451 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $403,451.
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 $302k to $43k (−86%).
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: 2024 4% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $25k → $340k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 PassinArt - A Theater Company’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
PassinArt - A Theater Company leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 PassinArt - A Theater Company.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 36% · 2019 27% · 2020 49% · 2021 81% · 2022 32% · 2023 46% — 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
55% of PassinArt - A Theater Company'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
56% of PassinArt - A Theater Company's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $748k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $944k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 PassinArt - A Theater Company receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $37k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$37k
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 PassinArt - A Theater Company
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 PassinArt - A Theater Company: 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 PassinArt - A Theater Company?
- PassinArt - A Theater Company (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,691,880 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($753,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PassinArt - A Theater Company have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,691,880 in grants to PassinArt - A Theater Company, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PassinArt - A Theater Company?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $753,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PassinArt - A Theater Company 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 14 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