Oregon · Nonprofit
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM (Oregon) receives grants from 191 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,215,828 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($16,555,888). 120 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 191
- Grants received
- $71M
- Net assets
- $230M
What Portland Art Museum does
Mission
The mission of the Portland Art Museum is to engage diverse communities through art and film of enduring quality, and to collect, preserve and educate for the enrichment of present and future generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
More than 53,750 objects and works of art comprise the museum's collections, including works of european painting and sculpture, american painting and sculpture, silver, asian art, native american art, pre-columbian art, cameroon and other african art, contemporary art, sculpture, prints and drawings, photography, and film.
$15,238,098 spent$4,872,111 earned by the program72% of program spendingDuring 2024, the Portland Art Museum and site santa fe, in cooperation with the u.s. Department of state's bureau of educational and cultural affairs, were selected to present jeffrey gibson as the representative for the united states at the 60th international art exhibition of la biennale di venezia (venice biennale). On view april 20 through november 24, 2024, "jeffrey gibson: the space in which to place me" provided international audiences with the first major opportunity to experience gibson's work outside of the u.s.
$2,792,512 spent13% of program spendingThe museum's center for an untold tomorrow is a year-round organization and space where artists and audiences explore our region and the world through cinema and cinematic storytelling in all its forms. Its mission is to expand the reach of cinema as an art form and challenge for whom, by whom and how stories can be told. Through its non-traditional, unbound festivals, screenings, events, co:laboratory adult and youth classes and workshops, audiences and artists form connections that bind our community and encourage a more vibrant, accessible, and diverse media-arts ecosystem.
$2,553,271 spentof which $25,000 as grants$785,658 earned by the program12% of program spendingThe learning and community partnerships team at the Portland Art Museum works to offer a full spectrum of programs and outreach initiatives that promote lifelong learning and build connections to our local community. Through programs, partnerships, and community advisory processes, the museum strives to be more than just a collection of objects and artwork, but also to be a place where conversations about the world around us take place.
$695,016 spent$5,131 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,278,897.
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 2023 to 2024, from $211M to $236M (+12%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 15% · 2022 9% · 2023 7% · 2024 5% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of PORTLAND ART MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Brian J Ferriso
Executive director
Board chair
Cyndy Maletis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 41 funders to 99 funders, grant income rose $2.9M → $11M.
18 of 191 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 ART MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 191 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
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 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 PORTLAND ART MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 27% · 2019 68% · 2020 18% · 2021 14% · 2022 27% · 2023 14% — 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
54% of PORTLAND ART MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 ART MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PORTLAND ART MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.3M on record — $2.8M federal, $3.6M state.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$1.3M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$757k
- National Endowment for the Arts$380k
- Department of State$375k
- Department of the Interior$8k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$3.5M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$20k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$17k
- ADVERTISE, PUBLICITY, PUBLISH/PRINT SRVS$160
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 ART MUSEUM
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- R2464 Lots LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: 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 ART MUSEUM?
- PORTLAND ART MUSEUM (Oregon) receives grants from 191 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,215,828 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($16,555,888). 120 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PORTLAND ART MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 191 organizations giving $71,215,828 in grants to PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, 120 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORTLAND ART MUSEUM?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,555,888 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORTLAND ART MUSEUM 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 191 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