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PORTLAND SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND

PORTLAND SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,912 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($55,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$121k
Revenue FY2025
9
Funders on record
$170k
Grants received
$848
Net assets
7/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%

Against its field

PORTLAND SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($28k) Expenses 100 ($13k) Net assets 100 ($46k)2018 Revenue 159 ($45k) Expenses 483 ($62k) Net assets 62 ($28k)2020 Revenue 94 ($26k) Expenses 228 ($29k) Net assets 26 ($12k)2021 Revenue 98 ($28k) Expenses 97 ($13k) Net assets 59 ($27k)2022 Revenue 223 ($63k) Expenses 626 ($81k) Net assets 19 ($9k)2023 Revenue 286 ($80k) Expenses 575 ($74k) Net assets 33 ($15k)2024 Revenue 155 ($43k) Expenses 491 ($63k) Net assets -10 ($-4504)2025 Revenue 429 ($121k) Expenses 894 ($115k) Net assets 2 ($848)
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Revenue (429)Expenses (894)Net assets (2)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of PORTLAND SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’17
−$18k
’18
−$3k
’20
$15k
’21
−$18k
’22
$6k
’23
−$20k
’24
$5k
’25
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $35k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
2
2
5
3
5
4
4
4

From the IRS filings of PORTLAND SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND’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 SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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

32%
largest funder
61%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 69% · 2019 25% · 2020 47% · 2021 32% · 2022 45% · 2023 57% — 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

0% of PORTLAND SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

100% of PORTLAND SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

OR

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

03Its place in the field

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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record.

State$5k
Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$5k

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 SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND

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

Orpheuspdx83%Portland'5 Centers for the Arts Foundation83%Southern Oregon Repertory Singers81%Portland Opera Association Inc81%Portland Baroque Orchestra81%Salem Symphonic Winds Dba Salem Concert Band81%Portland Piano International80%Oregon Bravo Youth Orchestras80%

Nationally

Orpheuspdx83%Portland'5 Centers for the Arts Foundation83%Pensacola Opera Inc83%Island City Opera82%Milwaukee Opera Theatre82%Orquesta Northwest82%Southern Oregon Repertory Singers81%Portland Opera Association Inc81%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OR

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PORTLAND SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND: 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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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 SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND?
PORTLAND SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,912 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($55,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PORTLAND SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $169,912 in grants to PORTLAND SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PORTLAND SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND?
MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PORTLAND SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND 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 9funders 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