Arts Access Fund grantee organizations

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What is the Arts Access Fund?

Funded by an annual income tax of $35 per adult in Portland (known as the Arts Tax), the Arts Access Fund supports arts and music education in K-5 schools and grantmaking to support local nonprofit arts organizations. On the grantmaking side, the Arts Access Fund fuels the City's General Operating Support and its Small Grants for Artists & Arts Organizations programs.

General Operating Support

Since 2012, the Arts Access Fund has provided more than $30 million to local arts organizations via the Office of Arts & Culture's General Operating Support program. Grants are awarded to organizations to support their general operating expenses and to help expand access to the arts for all Portlanders—with an emphasis on serving K-12 students and underserved communities.

The list below outlines all of the organizations that were awarded General Operating Support, powered by the Arts Access Fund, for fiscal year 2024-25. In all, a total of $4,098,538 in funding will go to 80 local organizations. All General Operating Support is direct and unrestricted.

Please note that the figures below reflect overall funding amounts awarded to General Operating Support organizations—including from the Arts Access Fund and General Operating Fund. These numbers will be updated to reflect Arts Access Fund-specific General Operating Support funding amounts for FY2024-25 by January 1, 2025.

Grantee	FY2024-25 total
Alberta Abbey Foundation	$28,000
All Ages Music Portland (Friends of Noise)	$21,000
Artists Repertory Theatre	$63,000
Artists for Learning Northwest (formerly Young Audiences)	$63,000
Blue Sky/Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts	$21,000
Bodyvox	$63,000
Boom Arts	$21,000
Caldera	$42,000
Capella Romana	$42,000
Chamber Music Northwest	$63,000
Children's Healing Art Project	$21,000
Coho Productions	$28,000
Corrib Theatre	$21,000
Cymaspace	$21,000
Echo Theater Company	$42,000
En Taiko	$21,000
Ethos Music Center	$42,000
Friends of Chamber Music	$63,000
Hand2Mouth	$28,000
Hollywood Theatre (Film Action Oregon)	$84,000
Imago Theatre	$28,000
Independent Publishing Resource Center	$21,000
Instituto de Cultura y Arte In Xochitl In Cuicatl	$21,000
Lan Su Chinese Garden	$42,000
Literary Arts	$94,765
Live Wire Radio	$42,000
MediaRites	$21,000
Metropolitan Youth Symphony	$45,695
Miracle Theatre Group	$42,000
My Voice Music	$42,000
New Expressive Works	$21,000
North Pole Studio	$28,000
Northwest Children's Theater & School	$84,000
Northwest Dance Project	$66,310
NW Documentary Arts & Media	$21,000
OK You	$21,000
Open Hearts Open Minds	$21,000
Oregon Ballet Theatre	$208,555
Oregon BRAVO Youth Orchestras	$63,000
Oregon Children's Theatre	$90,290
Oregon Contemporary	$28,000
Oregon Symphony Association	$391,648
Outside the Frame	$28,000
Pacific Youth Choir	$21,000
PassinArt: A Theatre Company	$21,000
PDX Jazz	$43,360
PHAME	$42,000
PlayWrite	$21,000
Polaris Dance Theatre	$21,000
Portland Art Museum	$245,000
Portland Baroque Orchestra	$42,000
Portland Center Stage	$350,000
Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra	$28,000
Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble	$21,000
Portland Gay Men's Chorus	$48,390
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art	$63,000
Portland Opera	$138,770
Portland Piano International	$28,000
Portland Playhouse	$63,000
Portland Street Art Alliance	$42,000
Portland Taiko	$21,000
Portland Youth Philharmonic	$68,550
Profile Theatre	$42,000
Rejoice! Diaspora Dance Theater	$21,000
Resonance Ensemble	$21,000
Shaking the Tree Theatre	$28,000
Street Books	$21,000
Takohachi	$21,000
The Portland Ballet	$42,000
The Red Door Project	$42,000
Theatre Diaspora	$21,000
Third Angle New Music	$21,000
Third Rail Repertory Theatre	$28,000
Triangle Productions	$21,000
Vanport Mosaic	$21,000
White Bird	$53,205
Willamette Light Brigade (Portland Winter Light Festival)	$21,000
World Arts Foundation	$21,000
World Stage Theatre	$28,000
Write Around Portland	$28,000

Small Grants for Artists & Arts Organizations

By City Code, at least 5% of Arts Access Fund proceeds are to be invested in "grants and programs to nonprofit arts organizations, other nonprofits, and schools that will give access to high-quality arts experiences to Kindergarten through 12th grade students (K-12) and for grants and programs that will make arts and culture experiences available to Portland residents, with a particular emphasis on programs directed to communities who are underserved by local arts providers."

This list of 123 organizations received a total of $541,000 in Small Grants for Artists & Arts Organizations from the City of Portland's Office of Arts & Culture, disbursed by one of the office's three grant partners, Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) for the 2023-24 fiscal year.

Grantee	FY2023-24 total
45th Parallel	$5,000
Advance Gender Equity in the Arts	$5,000
Alberta Rose Theatre	$5,000
Albina Music Trust	$5,000
Aligned Artistry	$5,000
All Classical Radio	$4,000
Ambiguous Animals, LLC	$5,000
A-WOL Dance Collective	$4,000
Bach Cantata Choir	$5,000
Barn Radio	$5,000
Baylasan Botanicals	$5,000
Berm	$5,000
Big Mouth Society	$4,000
Black Food Sovereignty Coalition	$5,000
Borderline Press LLC	$2,000
Brave Atlas	$4,000
Bridging Voices	$3,000
Building Five	$5,000
Carnation Contemporary LLC	$5,000
Cathedral Park Performing Arts Collective	$5,000
COCOLAB Design	$5,000
congruency dance collective	$5,000
Couch Film Collective	$5,000
Crave Theatre Company	$5,000
Curbside Serenade	$5,000
Dance United	$5,000
Defense Fund PDX	$5,000
East Portland Collective	$5,000
Eastside Jewish Commons	$2,000
Elbow Room	$5,000
enTaiko	$5,000
EXT. 606	$5,000
Extradition Ensemble	$3,000
Fear No Music	$5,000
Flight 64 Studio	$2,000
Fonograf Editions	$5,000
Freakybuttrue Peculiarium	$2,000
Friends of Saturday Academy	$5,000
Friends of Sellwood Community House	$3,000
Gather:Make:Shelter	$5,000
Graphic Arts Center	$4,000
Hellenic-American Cultural Center & Museum of Oregon and SW Washington	$2,000
Honeybee Films	$5,000
Hungry Mantis	$2,000
Immutable Studio	$5,000
IN A LANDSCAPE	$5,000
In Medio	$5,000
In Mulieribus	$4,000
Jazz Society of Oregon	$5,000
Kickstand Comedy	$5,000
Kind Heart Arts	$3,000
Leaven Community	$3,000
Lent Elementary PTA	$4,000
LineStorm Playwrights	$5,000
Make Music Day PDX, Inc.	$2,000
Many Hats Collaboration	$5,000
Marcescence Magazine LLC	$3,000
Meals on Wheels People	$5,000
Medicine Bear Native American Spiritual Encampment Rodolfo Serna	$5,000
Misfit Academy	$5,000
Montavilla Jazz	$5,000
Mount Tabor Dance Community	$5,000
Multnomah Arts Center Association	$4,000
Municipal Eco Resiliency Project	$5,000
N.M. Productions Theater Company (DBA New Moon Productions)	$2,000
Native American Youth and Family Center	$5,000
New Room Studios	$5,000
New Wave Opera	$4,000
New Year in the Park	$5,000
Nomadic Theatre Co.	$5,000
North Pole Studio	$5,000
Ode by Lauren Lesueur LLC	$5,000
On the Inside	$5,000
Open Space	$4,000
Oregon Arts Watch	$5,000
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education	$5,000
Oregon Progress Forum, DBA Next Up	$3,000
Overlook Neighborhood Association	$1,000
Performance Works NW	$3,000
Portland Actors Conservatory	$4,000
Portland Area Theatre Alliance	$4,000
Portland Chamber Orchestra	$5,000
Portland Child Art Studio	$5,000
Portland Community College Foundation	$5,000
Portland Dance Film Fest	$5,000
Portland Fire Fighters Charitable Fund Inc.	$5,000
Portland in Color	$5,000
Portland Indigenous Marketplace	$5,000
Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble	$2,000
Portland Latin American Film Festival	$5,000
Portland Lesbian Choir	$5,000
Portland Mornings	$5,000
Portland Oregon Women's Film Festival	$5,000
Portland SummerFest	$5,000
Portland Symphonic Choir	$5,000
Portland Wind Symphony	$3,000
Prismagic LLC	$5,000
QDoc: Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival	$5,000
Renegade Opera	$5,000
Risk/Reward	$5,000
Sabin CDC	$5,000
Secret Room Press	$4,000
Somali Cultural Museum of Oregon	$5,000
Stage Fright	$5,000
Steps for Youth	$4,000
Studio Metropolis Inc	$4,000
Takohachi	$2,000
The Arc Portland Metro	$5,000
The Curiosity Paradox	$5,000
The Healing Underground	$5,000
The Rockwood Center	$5,000
The Ultimate Rock Guitar Dojo for Kids (DBA: Rock Dojo)	$5,000
UNLOCK THE ARTS INC	$5,000
Variable West	$5,000
Venezuela's Voice in Oregon	$3,000
Waterstone Gallery	$5,000
Whet, LLC. Amanda Harris	$5,000
Willamette Light Brigade and Portland Winter Light Festival	$5,000
Women In Film-Portland	$2,000
Wonderfolk	$5,000
Woodland Sung Productions	$5,000
XRAY.FM	$5,000
ZENA ZEZZA	$3,000