Top Donors to the Arts
Oregon’s top donors: Stellar support for the arts.
Who are Oregon’s top donors to the arts? Each year, Business for Culture & the Arts provides this annual benchmark for business giving to help assess our efforts to stimulate support for art the arts in our state. We’ve done the research; now meet the companies that are making a difference.
Top Business Donors to the Arts
Since 2000, Business for Culture and the Arts (BCA) has collected and compiled data about business contributions to arts and cultural organizations in metropolitan Portland. In 2009, BCA expanded its research to include state-wide business giving to the arts. BCA also collects data about in-kind support provided by businesses and whether businesses participate in Work for Art, an innovative workplace giving program.
The results of this research are compiled in the Top Business Donors to the Arts list, which ranks companies in order of their cash contributions to nonprofit arts and cultural organizations. The Top Business Donors to the Arts list is published annually in The Portland Business Journal’s Focus on Philanthropy issue.
The data BCA collects provides an annual benchmark for business giving the the arts. It helps BCA members assess how well BCA is doing in its efforts to stimulate increased public and private support of arts in Oregon.
BCA is pleased to honor the Top Business Donors to the Arts at its Arts Breakfast of Champions, an event that combines recognition and live performances in a celebration of businesses and business leaders who have shown extraordinary commitment to the arts in our community.
If you have questions about BCA’s business giving to the arts research, please contact Keith Daly, Membership and Marketing Manager at keith@businessculturearts.org.
» Resources for our 2013 report: The guide document to completing our survey (PDF), with examples of what to include and what to leave out; the second is the survey itself as an Excel spreadsheet file.
Congratulations to the Top 25 Business Donors to the Arts in the Portland Metro Area! Published in the Portland Business Journal on September 14, 2012, we applaud the exemplary businesses listed.
Download the list of the 2012 Top 25 Business Donors to the Arts – Portland Area (pdf)
Congratulations to these companies who ranked as top business donors in three size categories:
(500+ employees)
- U.S. Bank/US Bancorp Foundation
- The Standard
- Portland General Electric/PGE Foundation
- Wells Fargo
- KeyBank
- Umpqua Bank
- JPMorgan Chase
- The Boeing Company
- NW Natural
(100-499 employees)
- Bank of the Cascades
- Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt
- ZGF Architects
- Stoel Rives LLP
- Bullseye Glass Co.
- Perkins & Co
- Wieden+Kennedy
- Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
- Pacific Continental Bank
- Miller Nash LLP
(<100 employees)
- Curtis T. Thompson MD & Associates
- RBC Wealth Management
- Bonhams & Butterfields
- Shorenstein Realty Services
- Pearson Financial Group
- The Heathman Hotel
- PosterGarden
- M & T Mortgage
- Ater Wynne
- Ball Janik
In 2011, BCA made a departure from our annual tally of the top business donors to the arts and dug into our enormous cache of research from the last 10 years to look at trends in corporate philanthropy to the arts over a decade. The result was a list of the Top 50 Business Donors to the Arts for the last 10 years. We salute these companies who have been leaders in our community.
BCA also published analysis of this giving, expanded lists and historical information about BCA for our 2011 Arts Breakfast of Champions. Download the entire booklet – Mentoring Leaders, Fueling the Arts, Making Connections – 25 Years (pdf).
Interested in seeing 2010′s impressive list of inspired companies? Check out the 2010 Top Business Donors to the Arts List.
