Oregon · Nonprofit
PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST INC
PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST INC (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,450 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($43,750). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $153k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $147k
- Net assets
- $82k
What Performance Works Northwest Inc does
Mission
Performance works northwest advances the performing arts of the pacific northwest, engaging artists and audiences fully in the process of experimentation, creation and dialog around the presentation of contemporary performance. As an artist-run incubator for contemporary performance, pwnw simultaneously nurtures local artists and provides opportunities for portland audiences and artists to engage with nationally recognized performers and their work. Based since 2000 in its s.e. Portland home, pwnw is distinct in encompassing a range of performance styles, genres and interdisciplinary approaches.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
1. Alembic residency program.three movement-based artists received free studio space and their work was presented publicly in june 2025. A resident parent artist shared.
$6,604 spent30% of program spending2. Co-productions.performance works hosted and co-produced three productions by both local and visiting artists.
$9,104 spent42% of program spending3. Studio. Below market space rental program. Cost of space and admin for studio serving 45 artists with below-market rehearsal space.
$6,130 spent28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $21,838.
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 2024 to 2025, from $26k to $83k (+214%).
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.
28% of PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Linda Austin
Secretary executive director
Board chair
Stephanie Trotter
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $2k → $34k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
44% 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 PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 75% · 2019 42% · 2020 43% · 2021 51% · 2022 80% · 2023 44% — 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
29% of PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
60% of PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST INC's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k 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.
Against its field
PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$15k
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 PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST INC
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.
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST INC?
- PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST INC (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,450 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($43,750). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $147,450 in grants to PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST INC?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $43,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST INC 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