Oregon · Nonprofit
PORTLAND AREA THEATRE ALLIANCE
PORTLAND AREA THEATRE ALLIANCE (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,522 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($41,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $180k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Portland Area Theatre Alliance does
Mission
Education, advocacy and outreach
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Fertile Ground provides actors, artists and directors an opportunity to create new works for audiences offers producers direction and training and exposes audiences to the new works process. Attendance 2000
$34,176 spentof which $31,650 as grants78% of program spendingCitywide General Auditions and Unified Shakespeare Classical Auditions provided producers a central place to see actors auditions. 320 attendees
$2,706 spent6% of program spendingValentine Fund provides financial assistance to artists in times of hardship through application. There were 5 awards.
$6,992 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,874.
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 $44k to $55k (+24%).
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.
42% of PORTLAND AREA THEATRE ALLIANCE’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. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $29k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 PORTLAND AREA THEATRE ALLIANCE’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
PORTLAND AREA THEATRE ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 PORTLAND AREA THEATRE ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 76% — 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.
Where its funders are
80% of PORTLAND AREA THEATRE ALLIANCE'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Oregon funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
PORTLAND AREA THEATRE ALLIANCE has grown faster than half 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 PORTLAND AREA THEATRE ALLIANCE 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 PORTLAND AREA THEATRE ALLIANCE
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PORTLAND AREA THEATRE ALLIANCE: 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 PORTLAND AREA THEATRE ALLIANCE?
- PORTLAND AREA THEATRE ALLIANCE (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,522 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($41,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PORTLAND AREA THEATRE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $73,522 in grants to PORTLAND AREA THEATRE ALLIANCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORTLAND AREA THEATRE ALLIANCE?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $41,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORTLAND AREA THEATRE ALLIANCE 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 7 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