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PORTLAND SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR

PORTLAND SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,724 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($56,832). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$316k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$135k
Net assets
$55k
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Portland Symphonic Girlchoir does

Mission

Provide choral music education to girls and young women in Portland, OR metropolitan area.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide choral music education to girls and young women in Portland, OR metropolitan area.

    $271,432 spent$222,651 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $271,432.

02The 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 ($375k) Expenses 100 ($358k) Net assets 100 ($33k)2018 Revenue 55 ($208k) Expenses 57 ($202k) Net assets 117 ($39k)2019 Revenue 94 ($354k) Expenses 106 ($378k) Net assets 45 ($15k)2020 Revenue 56 ($210k) Expenses 62 ($222k) Net assets 9 ($3k)2021 Revenue 71 ($268k) Expenses 50 ($178k) Net assets 279 ($92k)2022 Revenue 95 ($358k) Expenses 103 ($370k) Net assets 318 ($105k)2023 Revenue 49 ($185k) Expenses 44 ($156k) Net assets 392 ($130k)2024 Revenue 135 ($507k) Expenses 153 ($547k) Net assets 273 ($91k)2025 Revenue 47 ($175k) Expenses 58 ($208k) Net assets 173 ($57k)2026 Revenue 84 ($316k) Expenses 89 ($319k) Net assets 165 ($55k)
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Revenue (84)Expenses (89)Net assets (165)Peer revenue range

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 $27k to $117k (+329%).

$33k
$39k
$15k
$27k
$117k
$140k
$130k
$104k
$61k
$56k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

17% of PORTLAND SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’17
$6k
’18
−$24k
’19
−$12k
’20
$89k
’21
−$12k
’22
$28k
’23
−$39k
’24
−$33k
’25
−$3k
’26
2.0
months of
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

Roberta Jackson

Executive Director

Board chair

Lucy Neary

Chair

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.

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Listed77101198811
Joined·+0+3+1+0+1··
No longer listed·00022··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $500 → $26k.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR’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 SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

81% 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 SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR.

42%
largest funder
92%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 65% — 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.

Where its funders are

81% of PORTLAND SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR'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 $26k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Oregon funders.

WA
NY
OR

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

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’19
’20
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PORTLAND SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR's revenue fell 16% between 2017 and 2026.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 335 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Organizations like PORTLAND SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 9%Fundraising 6%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds PORTLAND SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR?
PORTLAND SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,724 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($56,832). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PORTLAND SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $134,724 in grants to PORTLAND SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PORTLAND SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $56,832 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PORTLAND SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 7 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