Oregon · Nonprofit
VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION
VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION (Oregon) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,038 to it, the largest being Richard B Siegel Foundation ($5,110). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Arts Action Alliance Foundation Dba Clackamas County Arts Alliancelocalportfolio match
- James and Shirley Rippey Family Foundationshared funders
- Vermont Council on the Arts Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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.
40% of VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $47.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION’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
VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
65% of VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $261 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Arts Action Alliance Foundation Dba Clackamas County Arts Alliancelocalportfolio matchOR · funds 12 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- James and Shirley Rippey Family Foundationshared fundersOR · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- Vermont Council on the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southwest Minnesota Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lake Region Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fox Theatre Inc F/K/A Atlanta Landmarks Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York Council of Nonprofits Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western States Arts Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John M Bissell Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for The Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Region 10 League for Economic Assistance and Planning Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laurel Highlandsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO FOR-PROFIT SUBRECIPIENT$3k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$2k
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 VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION?
- VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION (Oregon) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,038 to it, the largest being Richard B Siegel Foundation ($5,110). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $15,038 in grants to VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION?
- Richard B Siegel Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,110 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing