Oregon · Nonprofit
PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (Oregon) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,484,717 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,230,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $9.5M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Portland Institute for Contemporary Art does
Mission
Pica acknowledges and advances the emerging ideas in art by fostering the creative explorations of contemporary artists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Through exhibitions, performances, artist residencies and educational programs, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (pica) enables artists and audiences alike to push the limits of artistic expression and explore provocative new ideas that illuminate life in the here and now. Pica supports this mission through dynamic programming, an unwavering commitment to artists, and a clear vision of the importance of the arts in the lives of individuals and of the community at large. Pica champions creative exploration, leads the curious in deepening their understanding of art and ideas, and supports the aesthetic risk-taking that challenges both artisits and audiences with new ways of seeing, representing and responding to contemporary life.
$1,890,695 spent$117,969 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,890,695.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $2.9M (+49%).
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 9% · 2019 12% · 2020 11% · 2021 16% · 2022 21% · 2023 20% · 2024 6% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
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
Reuben Roqueni
Executive director
Board chair
Andre Middleton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 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 13 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $966k → $1.4M.
13 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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 INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
26% 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 INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 42% · 2019 17% · 2020 44% · 2021 19% · 2022 20% · 2023 29% — 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
58% of PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART'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 INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 25 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $802k on record — $280k federal, $522k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$280k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$338k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$184k
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 INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: 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 INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART?
- PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (Oregon) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,484,717 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,230,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $9,484,717 in grants to PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 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 48 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