Oregon · Nonprofit
PORTLAND REVELS
PORTLAND REVELS (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,492 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($249,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $458k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $545k
- Net assets
- $154k
What Portland Revels does
Mission
The major program activity is staging the annual "midwinter revels", produced in portland continuously since 1995, and focusing on creating community through song, dance, and storytelling, Portland Revels productions celebtrate cultures and traditions from around the world, while inviting our audiences to participate along with our performers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Portland revel's program cycle focuses on the annual "midwinter revels" production, a non-sectarian family-friendly program celebrating the seasons through song, dance, story and ritual of the past and present, creating community across generations and cultures. A large volunteer chorus of adults and children is trained and supported by professional artists in music, choral singing and theater arts.
$291,198 spent$240,969 earned by the program83% of program spendingProgramming throughout the year includes a spring revels program, children's revels, community chorus and pub sings featuring folk music from around the world, poetry and storytelling.
$56,639 spent$4,013 earned by the program16% of program spendingIn 2016 Portland Revels launched a special children's program as a spin-off to the full midwinter revels production. Targeted toward families with younger children, the one hour production incorporates the time-tested elements of the season's regular production: singing, dancing and audience participation. This program is currently on pause. In 2019 Portland Revels began spring revels, a program through which revels commissions and collaborates with a local playwright to create a brand new production focused on a marginalized community. Like children's revels, spring revels productions weave in core revels performance elements, including choral singing, storytelling, and audience participation, to build community and connection between audiences and performers, dancing and audience participation.
$1,890 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $349,727.
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 2021 to 2022, from $159k to $263k (+66%).
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 13% · 2018 23% · 2019 20% · 2021 19% · 2022 43% · 2023 34% · 2024 5% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of PORTLAND REVELS’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. 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
Lauren Hanover
Executive director
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 $15k → $123k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 REVELS’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 REVELS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 REVELS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 67% · 2019 58% · 2020 69% · 2021 55% · 2022 59% · 2023 74% — growing more concentrated.
“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
60% of PORTLAND REVELS'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
61% of PORTLAND REVELS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $213k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $332k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 REVELS has grown faster 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 REVELS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$28k
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 REVELS
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 REVELS: 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 REVELS?
- PORTLAND REVELS (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,492 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($249,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PORTLAND REVELS have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $545,492 in grants to PORTLAND REVELS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORTLAND REVELS?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $249,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORTLAND REVELS 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 11 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