How much does Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts give?

Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts reported 82 itemized grants totaling $9,644,330, out of $9,948,858 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 71 and 90 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (95%), Community Improvement (3%), Education (1%).

Who are Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra ($13M), Cincinnati Museum Association ($6.8M), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ($6.2M).

Does Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Louise Taft Semple Foundation.

Where is Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts based?

Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts is based in OH.

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$9.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 82
Itemized grants FY2024: 72
Organizations funded FY2023: 15%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $9.6M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $2,331,720
Organizations funded a year: 71 to 90; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $138M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	82	$9.6M	22%
FY2023	72	$10M	15%
FY2022	90	$20M	27%
FY2021	85	$10M	35%
FY2020	71	$10M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$57MCommunity Improvement$2.0MEducation$462kYouth Development$265kCivil Rights$201kHuman Services$85kHealth$80kFood & Nutrition$43kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra	$13,111,842	5	6%
Cincinnati Museum Association	$6,843,818	5	6%
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park	$6,240,309	5	11%
The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc	$4,653,365	5	11%
Cincinnati Opera	$3,305,967	4	n/a
Taft Museum of Art	$1,834,494	5	7%
The Contemporary Arts Center	$1,789,165	5	12%
The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati	$1,531,886	5	8%
Cincinnati Musical Festival Association	$1,470,898	5	21%
Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber Foundation	$1,360,000	2	10%

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All grantees of Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra	$13,111,842	5	6%
Cincinnati Museum Association	$6,843,818	5	6%
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park	$6,240,309	5	11%
The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc	$4,653,365	5	11%
Cincinnati Opera	$3,305,967	4	n/a
Taft Museum of Art	$1,834,494	5	7%
The Contemporary Arts Center	$1,789,165	5	12%
The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati	$1,531,886	5	8%
Cincinnati Musical Festival Association	$1,470,898	5	21%
Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber Foundation	$1,360,000	2	10%
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company	$1,344,894	5	10%
Art Opportunities Inc	$1,202,718	5	12%
Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati	$1,178,816	5	16%
Cincinnati Arts Association	$978,628	5	3%
Cincinnati Landmark Productions	$891,753	5	15%
Cincinnati Opera Association Inc	$683,850	1	9%
Fitton Center for Creative Arts	$563,461	5	16%
The Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center	$507,791	5	10%
Know Theatre of Cincinnati	$495,148	5	30%
Elementz	$420,593	5	27%
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra	$415,648	5	39%
Cincinnati Children's Choir	$398,909	5	34%
Visionaries and Voices	$384,180	5	13%
Price Hill Will	$366,334	5	12%
Kennedy Heights Arts Center	$363,842	5	22%
Cincinnati Boychoir Inc	$363,668	5	36%
Cincinnati Museum Center	$357,700	3	1%
Learning Through Art	$286,852	5	26%
Bi-Okoto Drum & Dance Theatre	$279,980	5	23%
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park &Museum	$272,366	5	6%
Northern Kentucky Symphony	$271,013	5	17%
Clifton Cultural Arts Center	$254,352	5	6%
Memorial Hall Operations LLC	$245,120	2	n/a
The Wyoming Fine Arts Center	$228,182	5	11%
Behringer Crawford Museum	$221,309	5	20%
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Inc	$202,705	5	2%
Wave Pool Corp	$202,176	5	13%
Mutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers	$190,400	5	28%
Vocal Arts Ensemble	$184,049	5	29%
Wordplay Cincy	$183,000	3	23%
Revolution Dance Theatre	$176,521	4	n/a
Linton Incorporated	$147,065	5	15%
Oxford Community Arts Center	$146,525	5	10%
Professional Artistic Research Projects	$137,500	4	17%
Robert Oneal Multicultural Arts Center	$132,607	5	36%
Young Professionals Choral Collective (YPCC)	$132,250	5	32%
Manifest Creative Research Gallery	$109,186	4	12%
American Sign Museum	$107,500	2	4%
Music Resource Center - Cincinnati	$106,000	2	n/a
Art Academy of Cincinnati	$102,000	2	1%
The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education	$100,000	1	6%
My Nose Turns Red Theatre Company	$86,752	5	16%
Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc	$83,334	4	0%
Cincinnati Public Radio Inc	$83,000	5	0%
Muse Cincinnati Womens Choir	$82,360	5	49%
The Greater Cincinnati Film Commission	$77,000	3	8%
Activities Beyond the Classroom	$74,071	5	1%
Cincinnati Music Accelerator	$71,537	2	n/a
QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera	$71,000	3	19%
Ish Festival	$70,000	3	8%
Pones Inc	$66,667	5	13%
Art of the Piano	$61,500	3	19%
Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society Inc	$60,891	1	26%
Queen City Performing Arts Organization	$57,000	3	36%
Agar LLC	$56,000	2	n/a
Springfield Township Arts and Enrichment Council	$55,552	4	n/a
Melodic Connections	$53,940	1	13%
The Mercantile Library	$50,000	1	4%
De la Dance Company	$50,000	1	n/a
Creative Time Inc	$50,000	1	3%
Nrityaarana School of Indian Classic Dance	$49,000	4	50%
Mindful Moment	$47,878	3	9%
Cincinnati Center City Development Corp	$46,500	1	0%
Its Commonly Jazz	$46,312	3	n/a
Arts & Humanities Resource Center for the Elderly	$46,000	4	13%
American Legacy Theatre	$43,700	3	12%
Cincinnati Memorial Hall Society	$42,000	1	12%
Concert Nova Inc	$39,900	3	30%
Cincy Nice Social House	$37,680	2	n/a
Corporation for Findlay Market	$35,500	3	0%
Black Achievers Inc	$35,000	1	51%
Cincinnati Arts and Technology Center	$32,500	1	11%
Cincinnati Black Theatre Company	$31,250	2	n/a
Cincinnati Fusion Ensemble Inc	$30,000	3	19%
Ciff	$28,500	3	10%
Kennedy Heights Community Council	$28,000	1	n/a
Downtown Cincinnati Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Cincinnati City School District	$23,782	2	n/a
Q-Kidz Dance Team	$22,500	2	12%
Sweet Sistah Splash	$21,250	1	40%
Artsville Corporation	$20,475	2	n/a
The University of Cincinnati Foundation	$20,000	2	0%
Vulcans Forge Performing Arts Collaborative	$20,000	2	n/a
Sharonville Fine Arts Council Inc 75	$20,000	1	10%
African Professionals Network - Apnet	$20,000	2	7%
The Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
Keep Cincinnati Beautiful Inc	$18,000	2	1%
Springfield Township Arts and Enrichment Council	$17,400	1	3%
Northern Kentucky University Foundation Inc	$17,000	2	0%
Jazz Alive Inc	$17,000	2	16%
Contemporary Dance Theatre	$16,117	1	n/a
Action Tank	$16,000	2	7%
Paloozanoirellc	$15,000	1	n/a
Center for Great Neighborhoods of Covington	$15,000	1	2%
Episcopal Retirement Services	$14,000	2	0%
Mount St Joseph University	$13,000	1	0%
Easley Blessed Foundation	$12,500	1	40%
Cincinnati Music & Wellness Coalition	$11,900	2	9%
Lydia's House Inc	$11,000	2	1%
National Commission for Black Arts and Entertainment	$11,000	1	n/a
Avondale Community Council	$10,000	1	63%
Maketank Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
SkyVengers Cartoon LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Over the Rhine Community Housing	$10,000	1	0%
The Lex Nycole Brand LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Quiet Water Entertainment LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
International Foundation for Contemporary Music	$10,000	1	7%
Juneteenth Cincinnati Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Village of Woodlawn Parks and Recreation Center	$10,000	1	n/a
Asha the Artist LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Westwood Works Inc	$10,000	1	7%
Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati Inc	$10,000	1	12%
Cincinnati Center for Autism	$10,000	1	0%
Cincinnati Song Initiative	$10,000	1	10%
Cincinnati Chamber Music Society	$10,000	1	7%
Soul Palette	$10,000	1	n/a
Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Arte Art Reconciliation Truth & Empowerment	$10,000	1	n/a
Inspiration Studios	$10,000	1	1%
Missing Front Plate Productions	$10,000	1	n/a
Hamilton Symphony Orchestra Assoc	$9,850	1	4%
The Ghostlight Stage Company	$9,350	1	12%
Cincinnati Black Pride Inc	$8,400	1	n/a
University of Cincinnati	$8,000	1	n/a
Golden Lion Awards	$8,000	1	n/a
Cincinnati Development Fund	$8,000	1	0%
Black Art Speaks	$8,000	1	2%
Covington Partners Inc	$8,000	1	4%
Over-The-Rhine Museum	$8,000	1	7%
Downtown Middletown Inc	$7,500	1	3%
Chase Elementary School	$7,000	1	n/a
Cincinnati Parks Foundation	$7,000	1	0%
Southbank Partners Inc	$7,000	1	3%
Revolution Dance	$7,000	1	n/a
Ohiodance Inc	$6,558	1	2%
Jazz Vivace	$6,500	1	n/a
Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati	$6,500	1	1%
Community Happens Here Inc	$6,100	1	3%
Jhankar Inc	$6,000	1	n/a
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America	$6,000	1	n/a
Greater Cincinnati Chinese Cultural Exchange Association	$6,000	1	n/a
Corryville Suzuki Project	$6,000	1	6%
Renaissance Covington Inc	$5,750	1	2%
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion	$5,490	1	n/a

Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 19 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 116 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 116.

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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.

Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr FoundationOH117.5× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Nlt Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust · Josephine S Russell Charitable

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 Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts

How much does Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts give?: Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts reported 82 itemized grants totaling $9,644,330, out of $9,948,858 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 71 and 90 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (95%), Community Improvement (3%), Education (1%).
Who are Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra ($13M), Cincinnati Museum Association ($6.8M), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ($6.2M).
Does Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Louise Taft Semple Foundation.
Where is Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts based?: Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts is based in OH.