Oregon · Nonprofit
WORLD ARTS FOUNDATION INC
WORLD ARTS FOUNDATION INC (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $441,223 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($105,788). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $441k
- Net assets
- $7k
What World Arts Foundation Inc does
Mission
To promote african-american contributions to the american culture, and to support community education through the interface of arts and education in interactive, visual and performing media that showcases local and regional talent.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Established links between artist and the community that provided increased opportunities for enhanced knowledge and awareness. Waf held their 39th annual "keep alive the dream" tribute to rev. Dr. Martin luther king, jr. In addition, we continued partnerships with "race talks" a monthly dialog on race relations jointly sponsored by mcmenamin's restaurants, "portland african american heritage project", and "urban wings aerospace and leadership club", a youth development initiative jointly sponsored by genesis fellowship church, portland.
$135,173 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $135,173.
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 2023 to 2024, from $134k to $7k (−95%).
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.
100% of WORLD ARTS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $13k → $149k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 WORLD ARTS FOUNDATION INC’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
WORLD ARTS FOUNDATION INC 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
58% 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 WORLD ARTS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 67% · 2019 58% · 2020 75% · 2021 49% · 2022 56% · 2023 27% — 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 WORLD ARTS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
88% of WORLD ARTS FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WORLD ARTS FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,046 unclassified nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like WORLD ARTS FOUNDATION INC
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.
Public support
100%
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 WORLD ARTS FOUNDATION INC: 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 WORLD ARTS FOUNDATION INC?
- WORLD ARTS FOUNDATION INC (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $441,223 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($105,788). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORLD ARTS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $441,223 in grants to WORLD ARTS FOUNDATION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD ARTS FOUNDATION INC?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $105,788 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD ARTS FOUNDATION INC 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 11 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