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Artsnow

ARTSNOW strengthens summit county by advancing its arts and culture assets and building connections between arts & culture and the broad community. ARTSNOW:a. Provides access to arts and culture information.b. Aggregates and analyzes data about arts and culture to drive sector improvement.c. Advocate for arts and culture across the…

$897k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
43
Itemized grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$824k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$12,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$143,855
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$526k
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MRecreation & Sports$28kEducation$20kCommunity Improvement$20kHuman Services$16kYouth Development$15kEnvironment$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Summit Artspace$252,138221%
Center for Applied Theater and Active Culture$117,000258%
City of Green Division of Fire$50,0001n/a
Tuesday Musical Association$39,99915%
The Movement Project Inc$38,000116%
Art Sparks$35,00023%
Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet$32,500116%
Main Street Barberton Inc$29,840210%
Summit Choral Society Inc$26,50017%
Cuyahoga Valley Art Center$25,0001n/a
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All grantees of Artsnow by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Summit Artspace$252,138221%
Center for Applied Theater and Active Culture$117,000258%
City of Green Division of Fire$50,0001n/a
Tuesday Musical Association$39,99915%
The Movement Project Inc$38,000116%
Art Sparks$35,00023%
Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet$32,500116%
Main Street Barberton Inc$29,840210%
Summit Choral Society Inc$26,50017%
Cuyahoga Valley Art Center$25,0001n/a
Akron Art Museum$25,00010%
Art Resources Transformations$25,0001n/a
Rubber City Shakespeare Company$25,000114%
City of Stow$25,0001n/a
Downtown Akron Partnership$25,00011%
Akron Creative Inc$25,00013%
Magical Theatre Company$25,00014%
Akron Soul Train$21,400115%
Northeast Ohio Center for Choreography$20,00014%
The Lippman School$20,00011%
Collide Cuyahoga Falls$20,0001n/a
Christ Community Chapel$18,6001n/a
Friends of the Summit$18,000123%
Proyecto Raices$16,250121%
Akron Makerspace$15,9801n/a
Community AIDS NetworkAkron Pride Initi$15,7781n/a
Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park$15,00010%
South Street Mnistries Inc$15,0001n/a
Makeshift Theater Inc$14,5941n/a
White Rabbit Galleries$14,000125%
Global Ties Akron$14,00018%
Ballet in the City Inc$12,5001n/a
Project Ujima Inc$12,5001n/a
Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens Inc$12,0001n/a
Asian Services in Action Inc$12,00010%
Black Excellence Arts Collective$10,0001n/a
Neighborhood Development Services Inc$10,0001n/a
Summit County Children Services$10,0001n/a
Cuyahoga Valley Choral Arts Inc$10,000130%
The Peninsula Art Academy$10,00019%
The Community Hall Foundation Inc Dba Akron Civic Theatre$10,00010%
Himalayan Arts Language and Cultura$10,000115%
Tinkers Creek Watershed Partners$9,99911%
City of Barberton$9,9991n/a
Ohio Shakespeare Festival$8,0001n/a
Akron Parks Collaborative$8,00012%
Citizens Akron Church$7,5001n/a
Akron Symphonic Winds$7,500115%
Akron Black Artist Guild$7,5001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Artsnow supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSummit Artspace: $252,138 over 2y, 21% of budgetCenter for Applied Theater and Active Culture: $117,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetTuesday Musical Association: $39,999 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetThe Movement Project Inc: $38,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetArt Sparks: $35,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet: $32,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetMain Street Barberton Inc: $29,840 over 2y, 10% of budgetSummit Choral Society Inc: $26,500 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetAkron Art Museum: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRubber City Shakespeare Company: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetDowntown Akron Partnership: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAkron Creative Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMagical Theatre Company: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAkron Soul Train: $21,400 over 1y, 15% of budgetNortheast Ohio Center for Choreography: $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe Lippman School: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFriends of the Summit: $18,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetProyecto Raices: $16,250 over 1y, 21% of budgetConservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWhite Rabbit Galleries: $14,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetGlobal Ties Akron: $14,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetAsian Services in Action Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCuyahoga Valley Choral Arts Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetThe Peninsula Art Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetThe Community Hall Foundation Inc Dba Akron Civic Theatre: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHimalayan Arts Language and Cultura: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTinkers Creek Watershed Partners: $9,999 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAkron Parks Collaborative: $8,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAkron Symphonic Winds: $7,500 over 1y, 15% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Akron Community FoundationOH69.1× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · Gar Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · The Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · United Way of Summit and Medina · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · The Welty Family Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitable · Lehner Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Artsnow

How much does Artsnow give?
Artsnow reported 43 itemized grants totaling $824,210, out of $896,945 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Artsnow fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Recreation & Sports (2%), Education (2%).
Who are Artsnow's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Summit Artspace ($252k), Center for Applied Theater and Active Culture ($117k), City of Green Division of Fire ($50k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Artsnow?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Akron Community Foundation, Gar Foundation, Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation.
Where is Artsnow based?
Artsnow is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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