(Washington County, Oregon) The Cultural Coalition of Washington County (CCWC) is pleased to announce grants totaling $63,228 to 32 local organizations for cultural projects taking place between January and December 2025. Individual grants ranged in amounts from $640 to $3,000. Organizations were selected through a competitive process based on their proposed arts, heritage and humanities project serving CCWC’s outlined goals based on the Washington County Cultural Plan:
1. Public Awareness, Audience Building and Participation
2. Support Cultural Organizations
3. Increase Public Art and Performance Opportunities
4. Support Diverse Cultural and Heritage Activities
5. Increase Access to Arts Education
The CCWC administers and distributes funds from the Oregon Cultural Trust to support locally based arts, heritage and humanities projects. For more information about the CCWC, visit its website. The Cultural Coalition of Washington County is fiscally sponsored by the Hillsboro Community Foundation.
The Oregon Cultural Trust distributes money to Oregon counties and tribes annually to support local community cultural programs. This year’s awards bring the total of grants distributed in Washington County over the past 21 years to over one million dollars.
The Oregon Cultural Trust receives its support through a unique tax credit program. Any Oregon resident can make a donation to the Trust and then match that with a donation to a local arts, heritage or humanities organization, for example one of the organizations listed below. Then, when it is time to pay their Oregon taxes, the donation to the local organization qualifies as a charitable contribution, and the donation to the Trust can be deducted as a full Oregon tax credit (you get the whole match back). For details on the program or to make a donation, visit the Oregon Cultural Trust website.
Congratulations to the 2025 CCWC grant awardees!
- Association of Seniors of Indian Origin (ASIO)
- Bag&Baggage Productions
- Beaverton Civic Theatre
- Beaverton Community Band
- Beaverton Symphony Orchestra
- Broadway Rose Theatre Company
- Centro Cultural de Condado de Washington
- Forest Grove School District, Cornelius Elementary School
- Friends of Historic Forest Grove
- German International School
- HART Theatre
- Hillsboro Symphony Orchestra
- Hillsboro Tuesday Marketplace, Inc.
- ISing Choir
- Library Foundation of Hillsboro
- Lo Nuestro Folklore of Washington County
- Mask & Mirror Community Theatre
- Nordic Northwest
- Orchestra Nova Northwest
- Oregon Hope Chinese School
- Oregon International Ballet Academy
- Oregon Origins Project
- Painted Sky Inc.
- Portland Chamber Orchestra
- Portland Youth Philharmonic
- Rasika Society for Arts of India
- The FLIP Museum
- Theatre in the Grove
- Tualatin Valley Artists dba Influence Music Hall
- Unified Performers
- West Union Community Club
- Westside Community and Youth Orchestra
To learn more about each organizations’ projects and award amounts click here.
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