Oregon · Nonprofit
Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble
Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,900 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($242,200). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $339k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $546k
- Net assets
- $213k
What Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble does
Mission
Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble is dedicated to proposing new ways of being through creative inquiry and performance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Production:pete produces one to two full theatrical productions a season aswell as at least one workshop in portland, or. We create eachwork through a collaborative process utilizing performancecomposition techniques. While every production defines its ownaesthetic needs, our work is marked by an interest in rigor,physical storytelling and notions of psychological surrealism.all performances are open to the public and our audiences rangefrom 100 for a weekend workshop to over 1,000 for a three-weekrun. Our work is supported by grants, individual donations,commissions and ticket sales. Since 2011, pete has produced 20 fullproductions (r3: after shakespeare, song of the dodo, the threesisters, enter the night, drowned horse tavern, all well, or thewhale, procedures for saying no, deception unit, uncle vanya, howto learn, our ruined house, beckett women, weather room,fronteriza, the cherry orchard, the americans, cardiac organ, aseagull, aw, hell).
$175,077 spent$34,906 earned by the program53% of program spendingTraining:pete runs a training center in contemporary performance(institute for contemporary performance/icp). We teach multiplecommunity classes in performance training and three intensives peryear covering the viewpoints, suzuki, as well as linklater voice,composition techniques and ensemble building. In the fall of 2015,we started a year-long training program in contemporaryperformance geared towards training young artists in making newwork for the theater. 2024-25 marks our ninth year of enrollmentwith 14 students. Pete also runs a high-school devised theatreprogram, bringing high school students from demographicallydifferent backgrounds together to create performance thatgenerates dialogue across difference, impacting 125-200 studentsper year.
$155,757 spent$99,630 earned by the program47% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $330,834.
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 $61k to $149k (+145%).
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 13% · 2021 46% · 2022 16% · 2023 21% · 2024 16% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble’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. 3 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.
Board chair
Pancho Savery
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $13k → $110k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 Experimental Theatre Ensemble’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 Experimental Theatre Ensemble leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% 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
77% 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 Experimental Theatre Ensemble.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 64% · 2019 63% · 2020 68% · 2021 51% · 2022 53% · 2023 42% — 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
92% of Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $242k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Experimental Theatre Ensemble is better cushioned 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 Experimental Theatre Ensemble receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $89k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$89k
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 Experimental Theatre Ensemble
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Experimental Theatre Ensemble: 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 Experimental Theatre Ensemble?
- Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,900 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($242,200). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $545,900 in grants to Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $242,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble 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