Oregon · Nonprofit
PORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS
PORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS (Oregon) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,011,738 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($297,961). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $709k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $325k
What Portland Gay Men's Chorus does
Mission
The Portland Gay Men's Chorus aspires to expand, redefine, and perfect the choral art through eclectic performances that honor and uplift our community and affirm the worth of all people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Performances: Portland Gay Men's Chorus, inc. (pgmc) holds four main concerts and a few smaller events membership, pgmc was able to return to live performances in fiscal year 2022-23. The first concert of the season, "merry everything," was pgmc's traditional winter concert; the next show, "our new world," was pgmc's social justice concert in collaboration with portland lesbian choir, rose city pride band, and bridging voices that brought to bear the challenges facing the q+ community and hoping for a new world that is accepting of non- heteronormative people. Cascade, pgmc's small ensemble group, presented its fourth in-person solo event, "turn back the time," reflecting on the concept of how we live our lives and the agency we have to make choices in the future; the season ended with a pride concert, "icons: pride goes pop" which was a top five selling pride concert since the covid pandemic.
$538,745 spent$328,284 earned by the program98% of program spendingMembership: historically, more than 1,700 people from within the community have been members of the chorus. Members of the Portland Gay Men's Chorus do not have to be from portland, gay, male, to sing in the chorus. Pgmc's members come from all walks of life, including nationally, ethnically, politically, spiritually, musically, and vocationally. Members of the chorus participate in the following activities: monday weekly rehearsals, an annual retreat, and between 4 to 6 all-day rehearsals each year. The organization's members participating in concert performances pay dues each season. Financial assistance to members with limited means for dues and retreat is awarded on a need basis . Pgmc is proud to be able to say that its membership continues to represent a full spectrum of diversity and is fully representative of the community. As a whole. The bylaws, since inception, have stated: "anyone shall be eligible for membership in the chorus, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, ational origin, marital or veteran's status, or disability."
$10,648 spent2% of program spendingOutreach: through pgmc's community outreach efforts, members have spoken or performed at schools, universities, civic groups, and national conferences. In recent years, the chorus has performed outreach concerts in over 14 communities throughout oregon and washington.occasionally, the chorus will perform in the portland metropolitan area for lgbt and lgbt-supportive events that are consistent with our mission. Outreach events are typically produced by local nonprofit organizations and all the proceeds from these events are returned tothose local nonprofit organizations. Although pgmc receives more outreach requests than it can accommodate, the chorus schedules on average three to four outreach events in a season, between october and june. In 2024, planning for the rural harmony tour, a three-city tour of rural oregon began (with the tour commencing in 2025). The chorus also supported the portland and vancouver pride events, and shared stories at concerts of being gay, trans, and finding love in unexpected places. The chorus is dedicated to reaching the broadest audience by providing speakers/performers at schools or non-profit events and, when possible, performing special concerts…
$2,892 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $552,285.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $290k to $146k (−50%).
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 5% · 2018 1% · 2019 7% · 2020 13% · 2021 41% · 2022 29% · 2023 7% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Mark Mccrary
Executive director, incoming
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $120k → $182k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 GAY MEN'S CHORUS’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 GAY MEN'S CHORUS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
70% 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 GAY MEN'S CHORUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 18% · 2019 65% · 2020 46% · 2021 29% · 2022 32% · 2023 30% — 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
38% of PORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
91% of PORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $369k 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.
Government funding PORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $67k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$67k
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 GAY MEN'S CHORUS
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS?
- PORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS (Oregon) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,011,738 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($297,961). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,011,738 in grants to PORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS?
- Regional Arts & Culture Council is the largest funder on record, with $297,961 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORTLAND GAY MEN'S CHORUS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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