355 Arts Organizations Receive $1,759,580 In Sustaining Arts Program Grant Awards From The Oregon Arts Commission (Photo) - 11/05/25
Salem, Oregon – Grant awards totaling $ 1,759,580 will be distributed to 355 Oregon arts organizations through the Oregon Arts Commission’s Sustaining Arts Program for fiscal year 2026.
In 2025, the Arts Commission reimagined this grant program to provide a more equitable distribution of funds to arts organizations. Awards are determined based on a newly updated funding formula that considers an organization’s annual expenses, number of applications and available grant funds. Grant awards range from $1,000 to $20,000, and these unrestricted awards are available to nonprofit arts organizations that offer public arts programs throughout the year.
“This program is an important example of how the Oregon Arts Commission fulfills its commitments to continue invigorating the economic, cultural and creative expressions of our diverse state,” shares Commission Chair Subashini-Ganesan Forbes. “The extensive grantee list highlights the number of arts organizations operating with impeccable vision to nourish and energize their respective communities.”
FY2026 Sustaining Arts Program grants awards by region:
Central
Group A
Bend Pops Orchestra, Bend: $2,368
Central Oregon Mastersingers Inc., Bend: $2,368
Opera Bend, Bend: $2,368
Sisters Festival of Books, Sisters: $2,368
Group B
Beat dba BEAT Children’s Theatre, Bend: $5,000
BendFilm, Bend: $6,725
Cascade School of Music, Bend: $8,183
Cascades Theatrical Company, Bend: $5,916
High Desert Chamber Music, Bend: $5,000
Scalehouse, Bend: $5,000
SFF Presents, Sisters: $8,149
Sunriver Music Festival Inc, Sunriver: $5,000
The High Desert Museum, Bend: $17,748
The Museum at Warm Springs, Warm Springs: $6,062
Tower Theatre Foundation Inc., Bend: $10,042
Central total: $92,297
Greater Eastern – North
Group A
Inland Northwest Musicians Inc., Hermiston: $2,368
Group B
Arts Council of Pendleton, Pendleton: $5,000
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton: $5,916
Oregon East Symphony, Pendleton: $5,000
Eastern North total: $18,284
Greater Eastern – South
Group A
Drexel H. Foundation, Vale: $2,368
Group B
Painted Sky Center for the Arts, Canyon City: $5,000
Eastern South total: $7,368
Portland Metro
Group A
21ten Theatre, Portland: $2,368
Airlie Press, Portland: $2,368
A Notion, A Scream, Portland: $2,368
Aspen Meadow Band, Colton: $2,368
Aurora Chorus, Portland: $2,368
Bach Cantata Choir, Portland: $2,368
Bells of the Cascades, Tualatin: $2,368
Bridging Voices, Portland: $2,368
Cada Casa International, Portland: $2,368
Cascadia Chapter of National Association of Composers, Portland: $2,368
Cathedral Park Performing Arts Collective, Portland: $2,368
Classical Up Close, Tigard: $2,368
Conchords Chorale, Tualatin: $2,368
Conduit Dance aka Shaun Keylock Company, Portland: $2,368
enTaiko, Portland: $2,368
Fear No Music, Portland: $2,368
Fool House Art Collective, Lake Oswego: $2,368
Friends of IFCC (FoIFCC), Portland: $2,368
Frogtown, Portland: $2,368
From the Ground Up: A Research and Development Center for New Art, Portland: $2,368
Future Prairie, Portland: $2,368
Greater Portland Flute Society, Portland: $2,368
Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre Northwest, Portland: $2,368
Hillsboro Symphony Orchestra, Hillsboro: $2,368
In Mulieribus, Portland: $2,368
ISing Community Choir, Beaverton: $2,368
Lake Oswego Open Studios, Lake Oswego: $2,368
Light Opera of Portland, Hillsboro: $2,368
Lo Nuestro Folklore of Washington County, Tigard: $2,368
Many Hats Collaboration, Portland: $2,368
Media-Rites, Portland: $2,368
New Moon Productions, Portland: $2,368
Northwest Dance Theatre, Tualatin: $2,368
Oregon Bluegrass Association, Portland: $2,368
Oregon Chorale Inc., Hillsboro: $2,368
Oregon Korean Performing Arts, Beaverton: $2,368
Oregon Symphonic Band, Beaverton: $2,368
PDX Pop Now!, Portland: $2,368
Performance Works NorthWest, Portland: $2,368
Piano Santa Foundation, Portland: $2,368
Portland Area Theatre Alliance, Portland: $2,368
Portland Chamber Music, Portland: $2,368
Portland Child Art Studio, Portland: $2,368
Portland in Color, Portland: $2,368
Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble, Portland: $2,368
Portland Fire Fighters Pipes and Drums, Portland: $2,368
Portland Radio Project, Portland: $2,368
Portland Symphonic Choir, Portland: $2,368
Portland Wind Symphony dba Pacific Crest Wind Symphony, Portland: $2,368
PUSH FOLD, Portland: $2,368
Radix Vocal Ensemble, Portland: $2,368
Renegade Opera, Portland: $2,368
Risk-Reward, Portland: $2,368
S1, Portland: $2,368
Shady Pines Radio, Portland: $2,368
Stage Fright, Portland: $2,368
Stages of Life, Portland: $2,368
STAGES Performing Arts Youth Academy, Hillsboro: $2,368
Steps for Youth, Portland: $2,368
Swingin’ Sounds, Portland: $2,368
Takohachi Inc, Portland: $2,368
The Artback, Estacada: $2,368
The Wave Elements Global Music, Portland: $2,368
Tilikum Chamber Orchestra, Portland: $2,368
Tualatin Valley Community Band, Tigard: $2,368
Tualatin Valley Symphony, Tigard: $2,368
Unlock the Arts, Portland: $2,368
Westside Orchestra Association, Hillsboro: $2,368
Women in Film-Portland, Portland: $2,368
Woodland Sung Productions, Portland: $2,368
Zephyr Clarinet Choir, Tigard: $2,368
Group B
45th Parallel Universe, Portland: $5,000
Advance Gender Equity in the Arts, Portland: $5,000
Alberta Abbey Foundation, Portland: $6,069
All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise, Portland: $6,077
All Classical Public Media, Inc., Portland: $15,776
Architectural Foundation of Oregon, Portland: $7,560
Artichoke Community Music, Portland: $5,000
Art in Oregon, Portland: $5,000
Art In The Pearl, Portland: $5,000
Artist Mentorship Program, Portland: $5,000
Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland: $11,832
Arts Action Alliance Foundation dba Clackamas County Arts Alliance, Oregon City: $5,000
A-WOL Dance Collective Inc., Portland: $5,916
Bag & Baggage Productions, Hillsboro: $6,062
BodyVox Inc, Portland: $7,948
Boom Arts, Portland: $5,000
Bridgetown Conservatory of Musical Theatre, Portland: $5,000
Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Tigard: $11,832
Caldera, Portland: $11,832
Camp45 Contemporary, Portland: $5,916
Cappella Romana Inc, Portland: $6,484
Cerimon House, Portland: $5,000
Chamber Music Northwest, Portland: $10,202
Clackamas Community College Foundation – Clackamas Repertory Theatre, Oregon City: $5,423
CoHo Productions Ltd, Portland: $5,916
Corrib Theatre, Portland: $5,000
Cracked Pots, Inc, Portland: $5,000
Curious Comedy Productions, Portland: $5,916
Echo Theater Company, Portland: $6,732
Ethos Inc., Portland: $7,830
Experience Theatre Project, Beaverton: $5,000
Film Action Oregon, Portland: $13,804
Friends of Chamber Music, Portland: $6,062
Gather:Make:Shelter, Portland: $5,916
Hand 2 Mouth, Portland: $5,916
Hellenic-American Cultural Center & Museum of Oregon and SW Washington, Portland: $5,000
Imago the Theatre Mask Ensemble, Portland: $5,916
In a Landscape, Portland: $6,510
Independent Publishing Resource Center Inc., Portland: $5,000
Jazz Society of Oregon, Portland: $8,489
Kickstand Comedy, Portland: $5,916
Lakewood Theatre Company, Lake Oswego: $10,168
Lan Su Chinese Garden, Portland: $11,832
Literary Arts, Inc., Portland: $13,804
Live Wire Radio, Portland: $6,062
Lovegood Performing Arts Company, Beaverton: $5,000
Metroarts Inc., Portland: $5,000
MetroEast Community Media, Gresham: $10,237
Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Portland: $6,995
Miracle Theatre Group, Portland: $5,916
Montavilla Jazz Festival, Portland: $5,000
Music Workshop, Portland: $5,916
My Voice Music, Portland: $6,062
Native Arts & Culture Foundation, Portland: $11,832
New Expressive Works, Portland: $5,000
North Pole Studio, Portland: $5,916
Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media and Education, Portland: $6,529
Northwest Children’s Theater & School Inc, Portland: $10,897
Northwest Professional Dance Project, Portland: $8,805
OK You Inc, Portland: $5,000
Old Church Society Inc, Portland: $6,568
Open Hearts Open Minds, Portland: $5,000
Open Space, Portland: $6,062
Orchestra Nova Northwest, Portland: $5,916
Oregon Arts Watch, Portland: $5,423
Oregon BRAVO Youth Orchestras, Portland: $8,092
Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, Portland: $5,916
Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland: $5,000
Oregon International Ballet Academy, Portland: $5,000
Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland: $8,403
Oregon Repertory Singers, Portland: $5,916
Oregon Society of Artists, Portland: $5,916
Oregon Symphony Association, Portland: $19,720
Oregon Symphony Association in Salem, Portland: $5,423
Outside the Frame, Portland: $5,916
Pacific Youth Choir, Portland: $5,000
PassinArt: A Theatre Company, Portland: $5,916
Phame Academy, Portland: $6,425
Play It Forward, Beaverton: $6,070
PlayWrite, Portland: $5,000
Portland Actors Conservatory, Portland: $5,916
Portland Art Museum, Portland: $19,720
Portland Baroque Orchestra, Portland: $7,531
Portland Chamber Orchestra, Portland: $5,000
Portland Community Media dba Open Signal, Portland: $11,832
Portland Drama Club, Portland: $5,000
Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, Portland: $5,000
Portland Gay Men’s Chorus, Inc., Portland: $6,062
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland: $10,015
Portland Japanese Garden, Portland: $19,720
Portland Jazz Festival, Inc. dba PDX Jazz, Portland: $7,306
Portland Lesbian Choir, Portland: $5,000
Portland Opera Association Inc, Portland: $17,748
Portland Piano International, Portland: $5,916
Portland Playhouse, Portland: $9,860
Portland Revels, Portland: $5,916
Portland Street Art Alliance, Portland: $5,916
Portland Taiko, Portland: $5,000
Portland Youth Philharmonic Association, Portland: $8,348
Profile Theatre Project, Portland: $6,344
Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland: $19,720
Resonance Vocal Ensemble, Portland: $5,000
Scarlet Sails Cultural Foundation, Beaverton: $5,000
SCRAP Creative Reuse, Portland: $7,511
Shaking the Tree Theatre, Portland: $5,000
Sticky Culture, Portland: $5,000
Stumptown Stages, Lake Oswego: $5,916
The Beaverton Arts Foundation, Beaverton: $11,832
The Portland Ballet, Portland: $6,818
The Red Door Project, Portland: $6,585
The Vanport Mosaic, Portland: $5,000
Third Angle New Music Ensemble, Portland: $5,000
Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Portland: $5,916
triangle productions, Portland: $5,000
Vibe of Portland, Portland: $5,000
Western Alliance of Arts Administrators Foundation, Portland: $7,676
White Bird, Portland: $7,625
Willamette Light Brigade, Portland: $6,173
World Stage Theatre, Troutdale: $5,423
Write Around Portland, Portland: $5,916
Young Audiences of Oregon Inc dba Arts for Learning Northwest, Portland: $9,056
Young Musicians & Artists, Portland: $5,916
Youth Music Project, West Linn: $9,565
Portland Metro total: $1,066,685
Mid-Valley
Group A
Confluence: Willamette Valley LGBT Chorus, Salem: $2,368
Festival Chorale Oregon, Salem: $2,368
Focus on Book Arts, Monmouth: $2,368
Keizer Creative Art Association, Salem: $2,368
Keizer Homegrown Theatre, Keizer: $2,368
Make Music Salem, Salem: $2,368
McMinnville Film Festival Foundation, McMinnville: $2,368
Oregon Artists Series Foundation, Salem: $2,368
Oregon Community Theatre Alliance, McMinnville: $2,368
Oregon Spirit Chorus aka Sweet Adelines International, Salem: $2,368
Salem Big Band, Salem: $2,368
Salem Orchestra, Salem: $2,368
Salem Philharmonia Orchestra, Salem: $2,368
Salem Pops Orchestra, Salem: $2,368
Salem Symphonic Winds, Salem: $2,368
Western Oregon University Development Foundation, Monmouth: $2,368
Willamette University – Theatre 33, Salem: $2,368
Group B
Casa de la Cultura Tlanese, Salem: $5,000
Chehalem Center Association, Newberg: $7,157
Friends of the Visual Arts dba Willamette Art Center, Salem: $5,000
Historic Elsinore Theatre Inc, Salem: $10,895
Pentacle Theatre, Salem: $5,916
Salem Art Association, Salem: $7,089
Salem Multicultural Institute, Salem: $5,000
Western Oregon University Development Foundation – Rainbow Dance Theatre, Monmouth: $5,000
Yamhill Enrichment Society (YES), McMinnville: $5,423
Mid-Valley total: $96,736
North Central
Group A
Cascade Singers, The Dalles: $2,368
Group B
Columbia Gorge Orchestra Association, Hood River: $5,000
North Central total: $7,368
North Coast
Group A
Arts Council of Clatsop County, Astoria: $2,368
Astoria Arts and Movement Center, Astoria: $2,368
Astoria Visual Arts, Inc, Astoria: $2,368
Bay City Pearl & Oyster Music Festival, Bay City: $2,368
C.C. Stern Type Foundry, Clatskanie: $2,368
Cartm, Manzanita: $2,368
Cascadia Concert Opera, Astoria: $2,368
Columbia Chorale of Oregon, Saint Helens: $2,368
Neah-Kah-Nie Coast Art Music and Cultural Foundation dba NCAM Foundation, Rockaway Beach: $2,368
Neskowin Chamber Music, Pacific City: $2,368
North Coast Chorale, Astoria: $2,368
One Tree Project, Warren: $2,368
The Writer’s Guild, Astoria: $2,368
Tolovana Arts Colony, Cannon Beach: $2,368
Trail’s End Art Association, Gearhart: $2,368
Group B
Hoffman Center for the Arts, Manzanita: $5,000
Liberty Restoration Inc., Astoria: $7,409
Ten Fifteen Productions, Astoria: $5,000
North Coast total: $52,929
Northeast
Group A
Grande Ronde Symphony Association, La Grande: $2,368
Group B
Crossroads Creative and Performing Arts Center Inc., Baker City: $5,916
Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council Inc DBA Art Center East, La Grande: $5,000
Fishtrap Inc, Enterprise: $5,916
Friends of the Opera House, Elgin: $5,916
Josephy Center for Arts and Culture, Joseph: $5,423
Northeast, total: $30,539
South Central
Group A
Klamath Folk Alliance (aka Klamath Music), Klamath Falls: $2,368
Group B
PLAYA, Summer Lake: $5,423
South Central, total: $7,791
South Coast|
Group A
Dolphin Players Inc., Coos Bay: $2,368
Oregon Coast School of Art, Gardiner: $2,368
Redfish Music Festival, Port Orford: $2,368
Riverbend Live!, Winston: $2,368
Group B
Artula Institute for Art and Environmental Education, Bandon: $7,619
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay: $5,000
Egyptian Theater Preservation Association, Coos Bay: $5,000
Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg: $5,916
South Coast total: $33,007
Southern
Group A
Art Presence, Inc., Jacksonville: $2,368
Ashland New Plays Festival, Ashland: $2,368
Fusion Performing Arts Alliance, Grants Pass: $2,368
Guitar Society of Southern Oregon, Ashland: $2,368
Jefferson Pipe Band, Gold Hill: $2,368
Kapi Oanuenue, Ashland: $2,368
North American Folk Music & Dance Alliance dba Ashland Flute Circle, Medford: $2,368
Rogue Valley Wind Ensemble dba Rogue Valley Symphonic Band, Talent: $2,368
Siskiyou Singers Inc., Ashland: $2,368
Siskiyou Violins, Medford: $2,368
Southern Oregon Film Society, Ashland: $2,368
Southern Oregon Guild, Cave Junction: $2,368
Group B
Anima Mundi Productions, Phoenix: $5,000
Camelot Theatre Company, Talent: $7,523
Collaborative Theatre Project Inc, Medford: $5,000
Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass: $5,000
Peter Britt Gardens Arts and Music Festival Association, Medford: $15,776
Rogue Valley Art Association, Medford: $5,000
Southern Oregon Repertory Singers, Ashland: $5,000
Southern Oregon University Foundation – Chamber Music Concerts, Ashland: $5,000
Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon, Medford: $5,000
Southern total: $86,715
South Valley/Mid Coast
Group A
Applegate Art Guild, Veneta: $2,368
Applegate Regional Theatre Inc, Veneta: $2,368
Artist Studio Association, Lincoln City: $2,368
Arts and Business Alliance of Eugene, Eugene: $2,368
Coastal Voices, Newport: $2,368
Corvallis Guitar Society, Corvallis: $2,368
DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon, Eugene: $2,368
Eugene Gay Men’s Chorus, Eugene: $2,368
Eugene Springfield Community Orchestra, Eugene: $2,368
Florence Regional Arts Alliance, Florence: $2,368
Free Shakespeare in the Park Theatre Company, Eugene: $2,368
Integrated Arts (DBA Harmonic Laboratory), Eugene: $2,368
Mid-Valley Productions, Albany: $2,368
New Zone Gallery, Eugene: $2,368
Oregon Brass Society, Eugene: $2,368
Oregon Coast Youth Symphony Festival Association, Newport: $2,368
Rose Women’s Choir, Eugene: $2,368
Pacific International Choral Festivals, Eugene: $2,368
Santiam Hearts to Arts, Mill City: $2,368
Scandinavian Cultural Foundation, Junction City: $2,368
Soromundi Lesbian Chorus of Eugene, Eugene: $2,368
Tri-County Performing Arts Inc aka Generations Arts Academy, Harrisburg: $2,368
Willamette Valley Symphony, Albany: $2,368
Women’s Choral Society, Springfield: $2,368
Group B
Adventure! Children’s Museum, Eugene: $5,000
Arts & Culture Project dba Radiant Arts, Eugene: $5,000
Ballet Fantastique, Eugene: $6,051
Chamber Music Amici, Eugene: $5,000
Community Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene: $6,062
Comunidad y Herencia Cultural, Springfield: $5,000
Corvallis Arts Center Inc., Corvallis: $5,916
Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center, Corvallis: $5,000
Corvallis Youth Symphony Association, Corvallis: $5,000
Cottage Theatre, Cottage Grove: $5,423
Eugene Ballet Company, Eugene: $11,832
Eugene Concert Choir Inc, Eugene: $5,916
Eugene Opera, Eugene: $5,916
Eugene Springfield Youth Orchestras, Eugene: $5,423
Eugene Symphony Association Inc., Eugene: $11,832
Instaballet, Eugene: $5,000
Joint Forces Dance Company, Eugene: $5,000
Lane Arts Council, Eugene: $8,140
Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts, Eugene: $5,916
Maude I. Kerns Art Center, Eugene: $5,423
Maxtivity, Philomath: $5,000
Neskowin Coast Foundation aka Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis: $8,213
Orchestra Next, Eugene: $5,000
Oregon Coast Council for the Arts, Newport: $7,465
Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene: $6,042
Oregon Mozart Players, Eugene: $5,000
Polly Plumb Productions, Yachats: $5,000
Shedd Institute for the Arts, The John G., Eugene: $11,832
Siletz Bay Music Festival, Lincoln City: $5,000
University of Oregon – Oregon Bach Festival, Eugene: $10,627
Willamette Jazz Society, Eugene: $5,000
Wordcrafters in Eugene, Eugene: $5,000
South Valley/Mid Coast total: $259,861
Grant category key:
Group A organizations operate with annual expenses less than $150,000.
Group B organizations operate with annual expenses equal to or greater than $150,000.
Region and counties key:
Central (Jefferson, Deschutes and Crook Counties)
Greater Eastern North (Gilliam, Morrow, Umatilla, Wheeler and Grant Counties)
Greater Eastern South (Harney and Malheur Counties)
Portland Metro (Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas Counties)
Mid-Valley (Yamhill, Polk and Marion Counties)
North Central (Hood River, Wasco and Sherman Counties)
North Coast (Clatsop, Columbia and Tillamook Counties)
Northeast (Wallowa, Union and Baker Counties)
South Central (Klamath and Lake Counties)
South Coast (Douglas, Coos and Curry Counties)
South Valley/Mid-Coast (Lincoln, Benton, Linn and Lane Counties)
Southern (Josephine and Jackson Counties)
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The Oregon Arts Commission provides leadership, funding and arts programs through its grants, special initiatives and services. Nine commissioners, appointed by the Governor, determine arts needs and establish policies for public support of the arts. The Arts Commission became part of Business Oregon (formerly Oregon Economic and Community Development Department) in 1993, in recognition of the expanding role the arts play in the broader social, economic and educational arenas of Oregon communities. In 2003, the Oregon Legislature moved the operations of the Oregon Cultural Trust to the Arts Commission, streamlining operations and making use of the Commission’s expertise in grantmaking, arts and cultural information and community cultural development.
The Arts Commission is supported with general funds appropriated by the Oregon legislature and with federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as funds from the Oregon Cultural Trust. More information about the Oregon Arts Commission is available online at artscommission.oregon.gov.