Portland’s creative infrastructure can be viewed through the city’s Arts Education and Access Income Tax financial record. The Portland Revenue Division’s FY2013–FY2025 Arts Access Fund collections and disbursements table reports annual tax collections, investment earnings, total inflows, and administration costs, banking fees, and refunds. The figures below are organized by fiscal year, so they describe annual city financial periods rather than calendar years.
Contents
- What the Arts Access Fund record measures
- Collections by fiscal year
- Investment earnings
- Total inflows
- Costs recorded alongside inflows
- Recent fiscal-year comparison
What the Arts Access Fund record measures
The source is the Portland Revenue Division FY2013–FY2025 Arts Access Fund collections/disbursements table. Its categories separate money collected through the Arts Education and Access Income Tax from investment earnings. The table also reports total inflows and a combined line for administration costs, banking fees, and refunds.
That structure matters when reading Portland creative industry statistics. Collections are one measure of annual tax revenue. Investment earnings are a separate measure of earnings recorded by the fund. Total inflows combine those two reported inflow categories. Administration costs, banking fees, and refunds are reported separately rather than treated as inflows.
The figures are therefore best read as public-finance measures connected to Portland’s arts-access system. They do not provide a count of artists, creative businesses, jobs, venues, performances, or individual participants. They do provide a consistent fiscal-year series for understanding the money entering the fund and the costs listed beside it.
Collections by fiscal year
The Arts Education and Access Income Tax collections line begins at $7,824,702 in FY2013. Collections were $7,252,578 in FY2014 and $10,572,635 in FY2015. The next reported fiscal years were $10,257,366 in FY2016, $12,082,250 in FY2017, and $12,477,761 in FY2018.
The source reports $13,356,001 in collections for FY2019. The FY2020 figure was $10,529,059, followed by $13,100,954 in FY2021 and $12,366,722 in FY2022. Collections were $12,123,898 in FY2023, $12,364,701 in FY2024, and $11,893,024 in FY2025.
Here is the complete collections series in a compact reference table:
| Fiscal year | Arts Education and Access Income Tax collections |
|---|---|
| FY2013 | $7,824,702 |
| FY2014 | $7,252,578 |
| FY2015 | $10,572,635 |
| FY2016 | $10,257,366 |
| FY2017 | $12,082,250 |
| FY2018 | $12,477,761 |
| FY2019 | $13,356,001 |
| FY2020 | $10,529,059 |
| FY2021 | $13,100,954 |
| FY2022 | $12,366,722 |
| FY2023 | $12,123,898 |
| FY2024 | $12,364,701 |
| FY2025 | $11,893,024 |
The table shows a lower collection figure in FY2014 than in FY2013, followed by collection figures above $10 million in every listed fiscal year from FY2015 onward. FY2019 is the highest collection figure in the supplied series at $13,356,001. FY2020 is reported at $10,529,059, and the later figures remain above $11 million through FY2025.
Investment earnings
Investment earnings form a second inflow category in the Portland Revenue Division table. The reported amount was $4,939 in FY2013 and $28,255 in FY2014. FY2015 investment earnings were $35,420, while FY2016 recorded $52,829.
The table reports $78,415 in FY2017 and $118,901 in FY2018. FY2019 investment earnings were $188,674, and FY2020 investment earnings were $193,223. The FY2021 amount was $80,911, followed by $62,196 in FY2022.
Investment earnings were $178,032 in FY2023, $262,556 in FY2024, and $307,497 in FY2025. Within this series, the FY2025 figure is the largest reported investment-earnings amount, while FY2013 is the smallest. These are fund-level earnings reported by fiscal year; they are not a measure of returns for an individual artist, organization, or creative business.
The year-by-year record is:
- FY2013: $4,939
- FY2014: $28,255
- FY2015: $35,420
- FY2016: $52,829
- FY2017: $78,415
- FY2018: $118,901
- FY2019: $188,674
- FY2020: $193,223
- FY2021: $80,911
- FY2022: $62,196
- FY2023: $178,032
- FY2024: $262,556
- FY2025: $307,497
Every investment-earnings figure in this section comes from the Portland Revenue Division FY2013–FY2025 Arts Access Fund table, which labels the periods by fiscal year.
Total inflows
The table’s total inflows line reports $7,829,642 for FY2013 and $7,280,833 for FY2014. The listed totals then rise to $10,608,055 in FY2015 and $10,310,195 in FY2016. Total inflows were $12,160,665 in FY2017 and $12,596,662 in FY2018.
For FY2019, the source reports total inflows of $13,544,675. FY2020 total inflows were $10,722,282. The FY2021 figure was $13,181,865, followed by $12,428,919 in FY2022. The final three reported years show $12,301,930 in FY2023, $12,627,257 in FY2024, and $12,200,521 in FY2025.
| Fiscal year | Total inflows |
|---|---|
| FY2013 | $7,829,642 |
| FY2014 | $7,280,833 |
| FY2015 | $10,608,055 |
| FY2016 | $10,310,195 |
| FY2017 | $12,160,665 |
| FY2018 | $12,596,662 |
| FY2019 | $13,544,675 |
| FY2020 | $10,722,282 |
| FY2021 | $13,181,865 |
| FY2022 | $12,428,919 |
| FY2023 | $12,301,930 |
| FY2024 | $12,627,257 |
| FY2025 | $12,200,521 |
Total inflows are distinct from collections in the source table because the record lists investment earnings as a separate inflow category. For each fiscal year in the table, total inflows are reported alongside both collections and investment earnings. That distinction lets readers identify the fund’s reported incoming total without treating investment earnings as tax collections.
Costs recorded alongside inflows
The Portland Revenue Division table reports one combined cost category labeled administration costs, banking fees, and refunds. The figure was $570,234 in FY2013 and $936,841 in FY2014. FY2015 recorded $944,291, while FY2016 recorded $1,102,341.
The reported amount was $1,194,735 in FY2017 and $1,212,411 in FY2018. FY2019 administration costs, banking fees, and refunds were $1,545,140. The FY2020 amount was $1,698,651, followed by $1,621,202 in FY2021 and $1,685,047 in FY2022.
The final three fiscal-year entries were $1,786,953 in FY2023, $1,948,978 in FY2024, and $1,957,972 in FY2025. Because the source combines administration costs, banking fees, and refunds into one line, the figures should not be presented as administration costs alone or as a separate banking-fee series.
The source labels this category as a financial outflow or cost line associated with the Arts Access Fund record. It does not, in the supplied table, break the combined amount into separate administration, banking, and refund values. Keeping the combined label preserves what the Portland Revenue Division actually reports for each fiscal year.
Recent fiscal-year comparison
The most recent five fiscal years in the table provide a focused view of the fund’s reported figures:
| Fiscal year | Collections | Investment earnings | Total inflows | Administration costs, banking fees, and refunds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | $13,100,954 | $80,911 | $13,181,865 | $1,621,202 |
| FY2022 | $12,366,722 | $62,196 | $12,428,919 | $1,685,047 |
| FY2023 | $12,123,898 | $178,032 | $12,301,930 | $1,786,953 |
| FY2024 | $12,364,701 | $262,556 | $12,627,257 | $1,948,978 |
| FY2025 | $11,893,024 | $307,497 | $12,200,521 | $1,957,972 |
Across these five rows, the source reports collections for FY2021 through FY2025, investment earnings for the same periods, total inflows, and the combined cost category. FY2025 has the largest investment-earnings figure in this five-year comparison, at $307,497. It also has the largest reported combined administration-cost, banking-fee, and refund figure in the five rows, at $1,957,972.
The recent figures should still be interpreted as fiscal-year Arts Access Fund financial statistics, not as a complete measurement of Portland’s creative industry. They show the public funding record supplied by the Portland Revenue Division, with geography tied to Portland and measurement periods tied to FY2013 through FY2025. For readers interested in creative life and connection, the most useful takeaway is the availability of a long, consistently labeled financial series for the city’s arts-access system.