Oregon · Nonprofit
TALENT MAKER CITY
TALENT MAKER CITY (Oregon) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,757,435 to it, the largest being THE ROUNDHOUSE FOUNDATION ($381,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Talent Maker City does
Mission
Talent Maker City is a nonprofit makerspace that builds a more connected, prosperous, and resilient community through hands-on creativity and innovative, STEAM-based learning. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Math).
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education Programming: In our educational programs, 1537 students participated in laser engraving, ceramics, robotics, sewing, screenprinting, video production, coding, carpentry courses, and more! These in-school and summer programs help foster childrens creativity and a sense of self-esteem. We worked with youth impacted by the Almeda fire by building beds for families who lost their homes in the disaster. While our programs serve all youth from elementary to high school, we especially enjoyed our continued skill-building work with incarcerated youth. Through strong community partnerships, we added successful new programming for students experiencing disabilities and students facing homelessness, a significant step towards our mission to build a more prosperous, more connected, and more resilient community through hands-on STEAM-based learning. In addition, we provided professional development opportunities for 101 educators, and presented at several statewide events.
$683,901 spent$521,756 earned by the program88% of program spendingCommunity Programs and Events: Our creative adult workshops engaged 1243 community members in classes ranging from ceramics, to woodworking, 3D printing, watercolors, and more! We engaged meaningfully with 27 community partners on projects increasing our reach from the year before. These projects ranged from screenprinting staff shirts to ceramics as a teambuilding activity with nonprofit partners. Our community reach extended further with our popular and highly attended Dia de los Muertos event where over 200 community members experienced cultural and traditional activities. Our Lights on Bikes event in December had over 125 attendees with families joining for holiday fun. Lastly, 625 attendees joined us for a large community Grand Opening celebration of our new building with family-friendly hands-on activities.
$88,917 spent$71,313 earned by the program11% of program spendingSmall Business Support: We partnered with over 23 participants from local Southern Oregon businesses and nonprofits who used the makerspace as a resource for tools, equipment, and skill sharing to create their own marketing materials, signage, merchandise, and a broad range of ideas they presented.
$4,342 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $777,160.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $304k to $2.2M (+616%).
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: 2022 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of TALENT MAKER CITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Allison French
Executive director
Board chair
Darby Ayers-Flood
Board president/chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $62k → $535k.
4 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 TALENT MAKER CITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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
TALENT MAKER CITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
30% 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 TALENT MAKER CITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 35% · 2021 46% · 2022 26% · 2023 52% — 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
25% of TALENT MAKER CITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
77% of TALENT MAKER CITY's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $374k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
TALENT MAKER CITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding TALENT MAKER CITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.6M on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$1.8M
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$1.7M
- CLIENT / BENEFIT PAYMENTS$21k
- DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$8k
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 TALENT MAKER CITY
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TALENT MAKER CITY: 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 TALENT MAKER CITY?
- TALENT MAKER CITY (Oregon) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,757,435 to it, the largest being THE ROUNDHOUSE FOUNDATION ($381,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TALENT MAKER CITY have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,757,435 in grants to TALENT MAKER CITY, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TALENT MAKER CITY?
- THE ROUNDHOUSE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $381,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TALENT MAKER CITY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 34 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing