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Tualatin Valley Creates

Tualatin Valley Creates (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,480 to it, the largest being JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION ($41,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$211k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$173k
Net assets
$52k
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Tualatin Valley Creates does

Mission

Tualatin Valley Creates drives the development of inclusive resilient creative communities using arts culture heritage and humanities. Tualatin Valley Creates offers professional development workshops for artists administers calls for public art and manages a comprehensive online resource website.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Organized and hosted community arts festivals and cultural events that promoted public engagement artist participation and community enrichment in the Tualatin Valley region.

    $132,813 spent$28,311 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. The organization delivered a diverse range of arts education programs including workshops and community activities led by skilled facilitators catering to both youth and community members. These initiatives aimed to engage participants in creative endeavors fostering personal growth self-expression and community cohesion through artistic exploration. Through these programs individuals had the opportunity to develop their artistic skills expand their cultural horizons and build meaningful connections with their peers and mentors. The organizations commitment to providing accessible and enriching arts experiences helped empower participants to explore their creativity and unlock their full potential.

    $0 spent$1,680 earned by the program
    0% of program spending
  3. Coordinated artist partnerships cultural collaborations and community arts programming to support local artists and enhance public access to arts initiatives.

    $0 spent$1,800 earned by the program
    0% of program spending
  4. Provided fiscal sponsorship and administrative support for community-based arts and cultural initiatives.

    $0 spent$9,541 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $132,813.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($271k) Expenses 100 ($204k) Net assets 100 ($90k)2022 Revenue 78 ($211k) Expenses 100 ($203k) Net assets 224 ($201k)2023 Revenue 110 ($297k) Expenses 123 ($250k) Net assets 47 ($42k)2024 Revenue 68 ($183k) Expenses 101 ($205k) Net assets 11 ($10k)2025 Revenue 78 ($211k) Expenses 83 ($169k) Net assets 57 ($52k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (78)Expenses (83)Net assets (57)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 2022 to 2023, from $201k to $42k (−79%).

$90k
$201k
$42k
$10k
$62k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 84% · 2022 70% · 2023 50% · 2024 75% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

80% of Tualatin Valley Creates’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$67k
’21
$8k
’22
$47k
’23
−$22k
’24
$42k
’25
4.4
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

Yasmin Ruvalcaba

Executive Director

Board chair

Elisa Joy Payne

Board Chair Not President

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed789810
Joined·+2+1+4+4
No longer listed·1052
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $22k → $20k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Tualatin Valley Creates’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

Tualatin Valley Creates has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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

45% 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 Tualatin Valley Creates.

24%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 47% · 2019 80% · 2020 41% · 2021 100% · 2022 54% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.

“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

40% of Tualatin Valley Creates's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

100% of Tualatin Valley Creates's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

OR
CA

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

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’21
’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Tualatin Valley Creates runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Tualatin Valley Creates receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $396k on record.

State$396k
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Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$396k

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 Tualatin Valley Creates

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

60%

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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Questions and answers

Who funds Tualatin Valley Creates?
Tualatin Valley Creates (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,480 to it, the largest being JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION ($41,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Tualatin Valley Creates have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $173,480 in grants to Tualatin Valley Creates, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Tualatin Valley Creates?
JAMES F & MARION L MILLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $41,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Tualatin Valley Creates 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 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