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PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL
PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,494,401 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,072,200). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $56M
What Port Angeles Waterfront Center Dba Field Arts & Events Hall does
Mission
The port angeles waterfront center is a home for arts and events that brings people together and strengthens our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Design, construct, and operate a performing arts and conference center in port angeles, washington.construction was completed july 2023 and the facility, dba field arts & events hall is a nonprofit performing arts and conference center located on the port angeles waterfront, serving as a vibrant cultural and economic catalyst for the north olympic peninsula. Field arts & events hall has hosted more than 250 events annually and welcomed over 80,000 visitors from across washington state, the pacific northwest and beyond. The 41,000 square foot facility features a 500 seat state-of-the-art theater, a flexible conference, an art gallery and the waterfront coffee bar.in addition to presenting world-class artists from across the globe, field hall leads peninsula performs!, an art education initiative that connects local students with professional artists through masterclasses, workshops, and behind-the-scenes experiences enriching arts education throughout clallam county. As a cornerstone of the region's cultural tourism infrastructure, field hall drives economic growth by attracting conferences, performances and cultural events that support local businesses positioning port angeles as…
$3,658,288 spent$1,268,248 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,658,288.
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 2019 to 2020, from $27M to $43M (+56%).
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 75% · 2022 16% · 2023 54% · 2024 25% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Steven Ginsburg
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $20k → $1.2M.
8 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL’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
PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 65% · 2023 83% — 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
60% of PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 75% 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
96% of PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL'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 $176k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Commerce$1.0M
- Department of Agriculture$1.0M
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 PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL: 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 PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL?
- PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,494,401 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,072,200). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $4,494,401 in grants to PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,072,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 12 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