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REGIONAL ARTS & CULTURE COUNCIL

EIN 93-1059037 PORTLAND, OR

Revenue 2023
$11,002,585
Expenses 2023
$10,755,241

Program services were 79.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A26
Classification
1000
Street
411 NW PARK AVE STE 101

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

TO ENRICH OUR COMMUNITIES THROUGH ARTS AND CULTURE.

  • GRANTS - RACC CURRENTLY SERVES OVER 300 INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS AND OVER 200 ARTS ORGANIZATIONS AND OTHER NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN THE PORTLAND TRI-COUNTY AREA. APPROXIMATELY 65 LOCAL ARTISTS AND COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES SERVE ON PANELS EACH YEAR TO HELP ASSESS THE ARTISTIC MERIT, COMMUNITY SERVICE, AND FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE APPLICANTS. DURING 2024, RACC CONTRACTED WITH THE CITY OF PORTLAND, MULTNOMAH COUNTY, AND WASHINGTON COUNTY TO ALLOCATE GRANT OVER $1.2 MILLION IN GRANT FUNDS TO ARTISTS AND ARTS ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT THE REGION.

    Expenses $6,550,225

  • PUBLIC ART - RACCS NATIONALLY ACCLAIMED PUBLIC ART PROGRAM INCLUDES THE INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF THE 2% PERCENT FOR ART ORDINANCES FOR THE CITY OF PORTLAND AND MULTNOMAH COUNTY AND THE PUBLIC ART THAT RESULTS FROM THOSE FUNDS. THESE INCLUDE LONG-TERM ARTWORKS, TEMPORARY AND PERFORMANCE-BASED PUBLIC ART, AND A SERIES OF ARTIST RESIDENCIES IN COMMUNITY SETTINGS AND/OR PUBLIC AGENCIES. A COMMUNITY PARTICIPATORY SELECTION PROCESS FOUNDED IN RACCS CORE VALUES IS SEMINAL TO THIS WORK. THE COMMISSIONING OF ARTWORKS FOR MULTNOMAH COUNTY LIBRARIES, PORTLAND PARKS & RECREATION, PORTLAND BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION, AND THE PORT OF PORTLAND ARE CURRENTLY VERY PROMINENT IN THIS WORK. RACC ALSO MANAGES A MURALS PROGRAM, WHICH INCLUDES AN ARTIST TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT COMPONENT. THE COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT INCLUDES THE MAINTENANCE AND CONSERVATION OF ARTWORKS AS WELL AS THE ACQUISITION AND PLACEMENT OF PORTABLE SCALE ARTWORKS, INCLUDING THE VISUAL CHRONICLE OF PORTLAND, FOR PUBLIC SPACES. ADDITIONALLY, RACC PROVIDES REVIEW AND OVERSIGHT OF CODE DRIVEN PROJECTS WITH PRIVATE DEVELOPERS AS WELL AS PUBLIC ART MANAGEMENT CONTRACTING SERVICES FOR A VARIETY OF LOCAL AND NATIONAL AGENCIES, BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.

    Expenses $1,948,109

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • DELLA RAE

    FORMER CIO

    Total calculated
    $175,665
    From this org
    $166,303
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,362
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,370
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $10,933
    Deferred
    $9,362
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $175,665

  • CAROL TATCH

    FORMER CEO

    Total calculated
    $169,860
    From this org
    $160,636
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,224
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $150,614
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $10,022
    Deferred
    $9,224
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $169,860

  • DEBBY GARMAN

    INTERIM CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • MATT WATSON

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • THOMAS LAUDERDALE

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • ANTHONY HARDEN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • CHLOE ELLIOT

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • DORI KING

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • FELICIA TRIPP

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • KATHLEEN HOLT

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • LEESHA POSEY

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • MEGAN CROWHURST

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • MICHELLE BOSS BARBA

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • OCTAVIANO MERECIAS-CUEVAS

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • RENEE RANK

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • GREG NETZER

    INTERIM EX DIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $11,002,585
    Expenses
    $10,755,241
    Contributions
    $10,660,661
    Grants paid
    $5,628,939
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $13,236,080
    Expenses
    $13,466,538
    Contributions
    $12,958,108
    Grants paid
    $8,652,124

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,551,679
    Expenses
    $7,998,266
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,063,213

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,740,913
    Expenses
    $10,721,874
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,841,193

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,877,349
    Expenses
    $12,887,601
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,091,588

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,685,221
    Expenses
    $12,809,000
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,258,927

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,206,462
    Expenses
    $9,458,221
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,898,258

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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Grants received

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.