Ohio · 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.
- $857k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $668k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $43,629
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $136,496
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $27M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Arts in Stark funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $668k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $1.8M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $490k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $492k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $1.1M | 11% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canton Symphony Orchestra Association | $1,694,838 | 9 | 32% |
| Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps Inc | $1,416,977 | 2 | 23% |
| Canton Museum of Art | $1,316,377 | 9 | 23% |
| Canton Ballet | $692,232 | 9 | 22% |
| Players Guild of Canton Inc | $587,780 | 5 | 35% |
| Massillon Museum | $391,749 | 9 | 6% |
| Canton Palace Theatre Association | $262,860 | 9 | 7% |
| Sing Stark Inc | $253,049 | 9 | 41% |
| Canton City Schools | $83,240 | 8 | n/a |
| The Auricle | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canton Symphony Orchestra Association | $1,694,838 | 9 | 32% |
| Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps Inc | $1,416,977 | 2 | 23% |
| Canton Museum of Art | $1,316,377 | 9 | 23% |
| Canton Ballet | $692,232 | 9 | 22% |
| Players Guild of Canton Inc | $587,780 | 5 | 35% |
| Massillon Museum | $391,749 | 9 | 6% |
| Canton Palace Theatre Association | $262,860 | 9 | 7% |
| Sing Stark Inc | $253,049 | 9 | 41% |
| Canton City Schools | $83,240 | 8 | n/a |
| The Auricle | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Louisville City School District | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Massillon City Board of Education | $8,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Minerva Arts Council | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| National First Ladies Library | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Downtown Canton Partnership Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Botanical Garden Association Inc | $7,493 | 1 | n/a |
| Arlin Graff Studios | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Phoenix Rising Behav Healthcare | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Stark County Educational Service Center | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Arts in Stark supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
About Arts in Stark
- How much does Arts in Stark give?
- Arts in Stark reported 14 itemized grants totaling $667,541, out of $856,763 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Arts in Stark fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (98%), Education (2%), Health (0%).
- Who are Arts in Stark's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Canton Symphony Orchestra Association ($1.7M), Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps Inc ($1.4M), Canton Museum of Art ($1.3M).
- Does Arts in Stark fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arts in Stark?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stark Community Foundation, Stark County Convention & Visitors' Bureau, Hoover Foundation Income Account.
- Where is Arts in Stark based?
- Arts in Stark is based in OH.
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