Oregon · Nonprofit
THE PORTLAND BALLET
THE PORTLAND BALLET (Oregon) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $954,532 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($374,997). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $978k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $955k
- Net assets
- $377k
What The Portland Ballet does
Mission
The Portland Ballet's 3 primary purposes (1) the establishment of a scholarship fund for children who can't afford ballet class tuition payments (2) to create and implement outreach programs for the public schools to get them involved in the community of dance and (3) to fund dance performances of youth groups to encourage young people to perform.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operation of the academy, provision of creative ballet, curriculum ballet, men's ballet and open ballet classes including performances showcasing the students performance skills.
$839,915 spent$599,299 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $839,915.
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 2019 to 2020, from $535k to $729k (+36%).
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: 2017 6% · 2018 9% · 2019 9% · 2020 7% · 2021 44% · 2023 8% · 2024 9% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of THE PORTLAND BALLET’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% 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.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $30k → $116k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 THE PORTLAND BALLET’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
THE PORTLAND BALLET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 THE PORTLAND BALLET.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 62% · 2019 50% · 2020 36% · 2021 33% · 2022 33% · 2023 59% — 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
67% of THE PORTLAND BALLET's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% 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
75% of THE PORTLAND BALLET's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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.
Against its field
THE PORTLAND BALLET runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE PORTLAND BALLET receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $65k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$65k
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 THE PORTLAND BALLET
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 THE PORTLAND BALLET: 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 THE PORTLAND BALLET?
- THE PORTLAND BALLET (Oregon) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $954,532 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($374,997). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PORTLAND BALLET have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $954,532 in grants to THE PORTLAND BALLET, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PORTLAND BALLET?
- Regional Arts & Culture Council is the largest funder on record, with $374,997 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PORTLAND BALLET 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 12 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