Harborlight Youth Arts72% of what we spend comes from donors
Donate.
One student costs us $524 for a year, materials and meals included. Families pay none of it, which is only possible because other people do.
Or $44 a month. That is the whole cost of a place, not a suggested minimum.
Give
The name goes into the subject of your email. If you would like us to send a card, add the address there; we use it for the card and nothing else.
These are averages from last year, not a promise about your particular dollar. Money is pooled and spent where the need is; nothing is restricted unless you ask for it to be.
Where it goes
Straight from Part IX of our Form 990. Read the filing rather than take our word for the split.
Open our financials →A studio on the waterfront
Video · 60 seconds · no narrationEvery line and number in it comes from these pages. Illustrations, scenes and music are AI-generated.
Text version of the video
- Photograph: the studio building on a rainy wharf. “Astoria, Oregon.”
- “About 2,400 young people. One art teacher, shared across two schools.”
- “Free · ages 11–18. A studio on the waterfront. Open to every kid in town.”
- Photograph: the empty studio. “2011 · A room above the old net loft. Nineteen students came the first week.”
- Linocut: a teenager at a potter’s wheel with a teacher. “The kilns, the press, the darkroom. They arrived one grant at a time.”
- Linocut: two teenagers pull a print from a press. “2022 · The press arrives. Students now publish two issues a year.”
- Linocut: three teenagers paint a wave mural on the wharf. “2025 · Six students hired to paint a public mural. $18 an hour. A job, not a class.”
- A number counts up: “1,140 young people in 2025.” Sample figures, year ended 31 Dec 2025.
- A bar split into programs 81%, management 12% and fundraising 7%. “Straight from Part IX of our Form 990. Read the filing.” Sample — not a real IRS filing.
- “One student, one year: $524. Or $44 a month.”
- Linocut: families at an evening student show. “Families pay none of it.”
- The building again, from further back. “Other people do.”
- End card: links to Donate and Enrol, and the demonstration notice.
Tax deductible
Harborlight is a 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 00-0000000. A receipt arrives by email within the hour, and an annual summary every January.
See a sample receipt · PDF 92 KB →We are not able to give tax advice. Your accountant can tell you what this means for your return.
Other ways
All of these reach us with less taken out than a card paymentBy post
Payable to Harborlight Youth Arts, 418 Wharf Street, Astoria, OR 97103.
From your DAF
Recommend a grant using our EIN. Most sponsors will also find us by name.
Appreciated shares
Write to us and we will send transfer instructions the same day.
Matching gifts
Several employers in the county match. Send the form and we will complete our half.
Donate materials
Paper, canvas, timber, unopened paint and working tools. We publish a current needs list every month so nothing arrives that we cannot use.
See this month's list →Teach a session
If you make things for a living, come and show a room of teenagers how. Guest artists are paid the same rate as our regular teaching artists.
Get in touch →The small print
Sample wordingRegistered in Oregon
Harborlight Youth Arts is registered with the Oregon Department of Justice, Charitable Activities Section, as a charity soliciting in Oregon (sample registration no. 00000). The Oregon DOJ lists every registered charity.
We never sell donor information
We do not sell, rent or trade donors’ names, addresses or giving history, and we do not share them with other organizations. Ask once and we will take you off every list the same day.
Disclosure statements some states require
Several states ask a charity that solicits their residents to print a short statement where it asks for money, and each state sets its own wording. These lines show where such statements sit on a donation page and point to each state’s official source. They are not the statutory text.
418 Wharf Street, Astoria, OR 97103
501(c)(3) public charity · EIN 00-0000000