Sample figures / year ended 31 Dec 2025
What
changed.
Counting heads is the easy part. This page also says how each number was counted, what we cannot prove, and one thing that did not work.
Each counted once, however many programs they joined.
The year in numbers
Each with how it was countedYoung people
Every session starts with a sign-in sheet. A young person who came to three programs is counted once, matched by name and year of birth.
Sign-in sheets
Came back for a second term
Of the 694 young people enrolled in the spring term, 430 enrolled again in the autumn.
Enrolment records
Studio hours
The time each young person spent in a session, added up. The drop-in studio accounts for just over half.
Sign-in and sign-out times
Hot meals served
One for each young person at each Harbor Studio session and each day of the summer intensive.
Kitchen log
Paid to six apprentices
Six students, ten weeks, ten hours a week, at $18 an hour, painting the Wharf Street mural.
Payroll
What students told us
318 of the 1,140 young people answered the end-of-term survey, a 28% response. These are the views of the students who answered, not of everyone.
What we
cannot prove
Arts programs are often credited with better grades, school attendance and college places. We do not collect any of that, so we make none of those claims. If a funder needs one, we will say so plainly rather than borrow someone else’s study.
What did
not work
Second Story Press printed 1,500 copies of each issue and gave away just over 900. The rest went to recycling. From 2026 it prints 1,000, and the paper saved goes to the darkroom.
Goals for 2026
70% come back
A text to every family two weeks before term, instead of a flyer handed out on the last day.
40% answer the survey
Paper surveys handed out at the last session. Last year’s went out by email afterwards.
A second bus stop
A pick-up south of the river on program days, where a third of last year’s waiting list lives.
418 Wharf Street, Astoria, OR 97103
501(c)(3) public charity · EIN 00-0000000