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RAINMAKER CRAFT INITIATIVE

RAINMAKER CRAFT INITIATIVE (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $39,000 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($39,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$703
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$39k
Net assets
$121k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 94%
01What it does

What Rainmaker Craft Initiative does

Program

  1. Rainmaker Craft Initiative is an educational platform committed to creative inquiry founded on craft. Focused on advancing partnerships within the greater portland community and nationally, rci emphasizes material practice and community exchange. Rci is dedicated to fostering socially conscious, critically engaged makers across a spectrum of mediums, outcomes and aspirations.

    $3,072 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

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 ($27k) Expenses 100 ($29k) Net assets 100 ($329)2019 Revenue 350 ($93k) Expenses 37 ($11k) Net assets 24926 ($82k)2020 Revenue 564 ($149k) Expenses 71 ($21k) Net assets 64857 ($213k)2021 Revenue 101 ($27k) Expenses 72 ($21k) Net assets 66496 ($219k)2022 Revenue 80 ($21k) Expenses 103 ($30k) Net assets 63737 ($210k)2023 Revenue 12 ($3k) Expenses 81 ($24k) Net assets 57460 ($189k)2024 Revenue 23 ($6k) Expenses 167 ($49k) Net assets 44300 ($146k)2025 Revenue 3 ($703) Expenses 85 ($25k) Net assets 36905 ($121k)
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Revenue (3)Expenses (85)Net assets (36905)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 2019 to 2020, from $82k to $213k (+160%).

$329
$82k
$213k
$219k
$210k
$189k
$146k
$121k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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Listed64455666
Joined··+1+1+0+2+0+0
No longer listed··100100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $19k → $20k.

Funder
'21
'22
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of RAINMAKER CRAFT INITIATIVE’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.

Where its funders are

100% of RAINMAKER CRAFT INITIATIVE's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

OR

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

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’22
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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RAINMAKER CRAFT INITIATIVE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve48.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−36% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Government funding RAINMAKER CRAFT INITIATIVE receives

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

State$5k
21
23
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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RAINMAKER CRAFT INITIATIVE: 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 RAINMAKER CRAFT INITIATIVE?
RAINMAKER CRAFT INITIATIVE (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $39,000 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($39,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RAINMAKER CRAFT INITIATIVE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $39,000 in grants to RAINMAKER CRAFT INITIATIVE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RAINMAKER CRAFT INITIATIVE?
The Ford Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $39,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RAINMAKER CRAFT INITIATIVE 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 1 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