Oregon · Nonprofit
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM (Oregon) receives grants from 185 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,849,878 to it, the largest being The Oregon Community Foundation ($16,555,888). 118 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 501 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 501 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- James and Shirley Rippey Family Foundationshared funders
- Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Incportfolio match
- The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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
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 185 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 185 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; 64% 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 58% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 24 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 11 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 185 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- James and Shirley Rippey Family Foundationshared fundersOR · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alex Katz Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyeth Foundation for American Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Coby Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jay DeFeo Foundation co Fontanello Duffield & Otakeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mr and Mrs Raymond J Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pilara Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wheeler Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 87 organizations that share your funders
- Onpoint Community Credit Unionshared funderslocalOR · backs 101 organizations that share your funders · funds 153 organizations near you
- Careoregon Incshared funderslocalOR · backs 102 organizations that share your funders · funds 178 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
Screen this organization
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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM?
- PORTLAND ART MUSEUM (Oregon) receives grants from 185 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,849,878 to it, the largest being The Oregon Community Foundation ($16,555,888). 118 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PORTLAND ART MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 185 organizations giving $70,849,878 in grants to PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, 118 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.
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 185funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing