Northwest Documentary Arts & Media

Analysis

Northwest Documentary Arts & Media is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Northwest Documentary Arts & Media reported income of $141k and spending of $143k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $255k to $141k (-45%), an average of -26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 153%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Northwest Documentary Arts & Media sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile, and in the 46th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Barn Studio of Art Inc ($141k), Rockaway Film Festival ($141k) and Portuguese Cultural Association ($141k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 67% and program service revenue 31% of the total. At year end it held assets of $60k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $60k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.