Oregon · Nonprofit
THE VANPORT MOSAIC
THE VANPORT MOSAIC (Oregon) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $629,279 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($185,300). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $221k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $629k
- Net assets
- $55k
What The Vanport Mosaic does
Mission
A memory activism platform to amplify, honor, and preserve silenced histories, through oral history, tours, exhibits, presentations, and the annual vanport mosaic festival.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Coming home: vanport mosaic was honored to be one of only 14 organizations nationwide selected to anchor the national cultural week of action on race & democracy. Held september 28 october 13, 2024, coming home brought together hundreds of community members, artists, and historians to explore themes of resilience, displacement, and cultural memory. Directed by chisao hata, the event honored the diverse communities that shaped old town while confronting ongoing erasure. Through exhibits, walking tours, performances, and community conversations, this initiative highlighted the rich history of one of portland's most culturally significant neighborhoods vanport mosaic was also honored at the portland monuments symposium by convergence 45, receiving an award for our monument & memory work that uplifts love, justice, and connection to place.
$44,497 spent15% of program spendingThe 9th vanport mosaic festival: the 9th annual vanport mosaic festival gathered community members, artists, and historians for two weeks of performances, exhibits, oral history screenings, and walking tours honoring vanport's legacy of resilience. Highlights included the annual reunion for vanport residents and flood survivors, the malcolm x day: black panther party legacy tour, and the city of portland's vanport day of remembrance proclamation. The festival also featured the portland assembly project, an original performance by chisao hata, and the premiere of precipice: re-membering, forgetting, and claiming home, a solo play by damaris webb. Events like lost city, living memories oral history screening and an afternoon for rooting and re-storying at delta park created space for reflection on displacement and memory activism.
$31,470 spent$8,593 earned by the program11% of program spendingAll power to the people program: we hosted four sold-out public black panther party legacy walking tours and two private tours, engaging nearly 450 participants. Our black history month programming included performances, panels, a community solidarity dinner and exhibits, drawing over 300 attendees. In partnership with oregon historical society, we premiered walking through portland with a panther: the life of mr. Kent ford, all power!, a filmed performance written by don wilson glenn, directed by damaris webb, and featuring la'tevin alexander, filmed under the direction of nora collie.
$5,000 spent2% of program spendingOral history: we expanded our oral history archive, adding 15 new interviews to our collection of over 100 firsthand accounts of vanport and albina. This was made possible by our newly hired full-time program manager and historian, greta smith, increasing our capacity to document and preserve community stories. To activate this living archive, we developed placing memories, a new initiative using immersive storytelling to connect communities with silenced histories. Launching in 2025, the first phase will feature self-guided audio walks in albina and vanport, combining oral histories, archival materials, and site-specific narratives to bring these historic neighborhoods to life.exhibits: our traveling exhibits were displayed at osu, uo, old town, the expo center, and alberta house. We also developed the journey of jackie winters: from vanport to the capitol, a traveling exhibit that will launch virtually in spring 2025 and be displayed at the oregon capitol in 2026.youth program: the youth archivist program at jefferson high school engaged students in 3d scanning, digital modeling, tile-making, and bronze casting to document and preserve the school's cultural legacy. Students led…
$208,391 spent$750 earned by the program72% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $289,358.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $232k to $56k (−76%).
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 39% · 2023 61% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of THE VANPORT MOSAIC’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. 2 of the last 3 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 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $187k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 VANPORT MOSAIC’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 VANPORT MOSAIC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 VANPORT MOSAIC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 78% · 2020 63% · 2021 28% · 2022 43% · 2023 44% — 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
50% of THE VANPORT MOSAIC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
94% of THE VANPORT MOSAIC's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $197k 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 VANPORT MOSAIC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding THE VANPORT MOSAIC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $246k on record — $141k federal, $105k state.
- National Archives and Records Administration$141k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$64k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$42k
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 VANPORT MOSAIC
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
73% 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 VANPORT MOSAIC: 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 VANPORT MOSAIC?
- THE VANPORT MOSAIC (Oregon) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $629,279 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($185,300). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE VANPORT MOSAIC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $629,279 in grants to THE VANPORT MOSAIC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE VANPORT MOSAIC?
- Regional Arts & Culture Council is the largest funder on record, with $185,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE VANPORT MOSAIC 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 2022–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing