· Public charity
Arts in Stark
The mission of artsinstark is to use the arts to advance community goals around economic development, tourism, well-being and education, in order to make stark county a thriving and vibrant region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $667,541 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $856,763 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $189,222 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $522k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $136,496 |
| THE BLUECOATS | $126,137 |
| CANTON MUSEUM OF ART | $104,280 |
| MASSILLON MUSEUM | $81,004 |
| CANTON BALLET | $74,469 |
| CANTON PALACE THEATRE | $48,373 |
| SING STARK | $43,629 |
| CANTON CITY SCHOOLS | $10,660 |
| CHILD & ADOLESCENT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $7,500 |
| DOWNTOWN CANTON PARTNERSHIP | $7,500 |
| NATIONAL FIRST LADIES LIBRARY & MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| BEECH CREEK BOTANICAL GARDEN | $7,493 |
| ARLIN GRAFF STUDIOS | $7,000 |
| PHOENIX RISING BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE | $5,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CBCANTON BALLET9× · 2017–2025 · $692k · revenue +3%
- MMMASSILLON MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $392k · revenue +78%
- CPCANTON PALACE THEATRE ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $263k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- TATHE AURICLEone grant, 2018 · $10k
- LCLOUISVILLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $9k
- MCMASSILLON CITY BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2017 · $9k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Advancement of the economic, industrial, professional, cultural and civic welfare of stark county and its surrounding region and the promotion and preservation of the competitive free enterprise system.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
To enhance the quality of life in the community by stimulating community interest in art, fostering creation and inquiry throughout columbus, and leading a vibrant arts culture tied to our unique history.
To preserve our historic theater and bring vibrancy to the community through diverse programming that entertains, educates, and inspires.
Business activities, programs and information for the community
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
The dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.
The Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA), a not-for-profit, was founded in 1990 to serve as a manager, presenter and educator. CAA's mission is to present a broad range of high quality performing and visual arts programs, develop diverse…
To raise consciousness and nurture compassion through ground-breaking performances and life-changing educational programs
Support and advocate preservation and restoration of historically significant buildings, sites, and objects.
We are Cincinnati's national theater - committed to bringing diverse, engaging works of great artistry to our community, and to putting Cincinnati's artistic excellence in the national spotlight.
Provide quality, diverse arts programming to impact our communities and enrich people's lives in the twin tiers
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canton Ballet and the most unlike its peers is Sing Stark Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Canton Symphony Orchestra Association ↗
- Who funds Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps Inc ↗
- Who funds Canton Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds CANTON BALLET ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS GUILD OF CANTON INC ↗
- Who funds MASSILLON MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CANTON PALACE THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SING STARK INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD & ADOLESCENT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FIRST LADIES LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN CANTON PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Botanical Garden Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX RISING BEHAV HEALTHCARE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Stark Community Foundation · Stark County Convention & Visitors' Bureau · Hoover Foundation Income Account · Timken Foundation of Canton · Diebold Employees Charitable Fd Ta · Timken Co Charitable & Educational Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arts in Stark funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.