Oregon · Nonprofit
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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $170k
- Net assets
- $848
What Portland Summerfest Aka Opera in the Park Portland does
Mission
To enrich the cultural life of the portland community by providing professional opera performances of high artistic quality to the public free of charge.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Opera in the park: presentation of a concert version of an opera each year in portland, oregon, free to the public. The 2025 program was bizet's carmen. Opera in the park was presented on sunday, july 27, 2025, at peninsula park to an audience of an estimated 7,100 community members. This program met the primary goal of the organization which is to offer the public an authentic connection to the music and an accessible introduction to the art form. The second year at a new-to-us location let us increase the audience and accessibility within the surrounding community.
$92,036 spentof which $52,301 as grants94% of program spendingOutreach event: a fundraising and outreach event entitled "the negro speaks of rivers" presented a recital of traditional spirituals, songs, and arias by african-american performers. This performance provided a platform to connect with partners, donors, and community members.
$4,630 spent5% of program spendingSchool program: our team has developed a short program to bring to schools, introducing the art form of opera to children in an easily digestible and interactive format. Targeted at preschool and younger elementary aged classes, during 2025 we presented this program at two schools, serving an estimated 150 children.
$750 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $97,416.
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 $27k to $9k (−67%).
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.
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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $35k.
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
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
PORTLAND SUMMERFEST AKA OPERA IN THE PARK PORTLAND has grown faster than three-quarters 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 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.
- 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
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.
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
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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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.
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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 9 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