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Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts

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$9.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
82
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 82 grants below total $9,644,330, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,948,858 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $304,528 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k52 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+9 grants · $7.3M
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$138M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra$2,331,720
Cincinnati Museum Association$1,267,000
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park$1,055,000
Cincinnati Ballet$820,684
Cincinnati Opera Association$683,850
Taft Museum of Art$322,919
Contemporary Arts Center$290,600
Art Opportunities Inc$273,000
The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati$266,910
Cincinnati Music Festival Assoc$217,900
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company$198,700
Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati$156,900
Cincinnati Landmark Productions$101,440
Fitton Center for Creative Arts$84,000
The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center$78,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIVING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $35k → 16%Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc: $21k → 16%LIVING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $21k → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC: $10k → 16%Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled: $7k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58M · 87 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

87 repeat relationships: 64 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
49

Total granted

$58M
$890k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+37%

Still filing today

86%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $901k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CS
    CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $13M · revenue +59%
  • TC
    The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +182%
  • CU
    CINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Educationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +937%
  • KC
    KALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $61k · revenue +148% · 26% of their budget
  • MC
    MELODIC CONNECTIONS
    one grant, 2020 · $54k · revenue -68%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
2
Columbus Cultural Youth Orchestra
Arts & Culture
3
The Contemporary Arts Center

The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.

Arts & Culture
4
Cleveland Chamber Symphony Council Inc

Music Performance - Performing free concerts of new symphonic music

Arts & Culture
5
Art Opportunities Inc

To create community driven public art and launch careers for youth and artists.

Arts & Culture
6
Gahanna Area Arts Council

he Gahanna area arts council connects and enriches our community through participation in and engagement with the arts.

Arts & Culture
7
Cincinnati Music Theatre

Fine Arts, Non Professional community theater-Cincinnati Music Theatre's mission is to serve as a non-profit civic enterprise dedicated to the encouragement & production of outstanding non-professional musical theater and providing…

Arts & Culture
8
Cleveland Chamber Collective

Non-profit organization dedicated to presenting frees concert of Classical Music

Arts & Culture
9
Cincinnati String Project

Our mission is to build vibrant communities in Cincinnati through chamber music, empowering young people, their families, and professional musicians, through performance,education and mentoring. The groups activities balance accessible,…

Arts & Culture
10
Fotofocus Cincinnati
Arts & Culture
11
Indianapolis Movement Arts Collective

A non-profit arts organization supporting and connecting the indianapolis community through dance and movement.

Arts & Culture
12
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center; the most unlike its peers is Queen City Chamber Opera Dba Queen City Opera. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

122 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 122 of the 154 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

19
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/122
Grantees still filing
76/122
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $13,111,842 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $6,843,818 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATIONCincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $6,240,309 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Playhouse in the ParkThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $4,653,365 · Arts & CultureThe Cincinnati Ballet Company IncTAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $1,834,494 · Arts & CultureThe Contemporary Arts Center: $1,789,165 · Arts & Culture+67 more: $17,256,349 · Arts & Culture+67 moreCINCINNATI OPERA: $3,305,967 · OtherCINCINNATI…LEARNING THROUGH ART: $286,852 · OtherNORTHERN KENTUCKY SYMPHONY: $271,013 · OtherMEMORIAL HALL OPERATIONS LLC: $245,120 · Other+52 more: $1,402,355 · Other+52 moreCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $1,360,000 · Community Improvement+7 more: $132,600 · Community ImprovementWordplay Cincy: $183,000 · EducationART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI: $102,000 · EducationActivities Beyond the Classroom: $74,071 · EducationThe Mercantile Library: $50,000 · EducationBLACK ACHIEVERS INC: $35,000 · EducationNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · Education+3 more: $31,000 · EducationElementz: $420,593 · Crime & LegalPRICE HILL WILL: $366,334 · Housing & ShelterEPISCOPAL RETIREMENT SERVICES: $14,000 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $29,000 · Housing & ShelterLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc: $83,334 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC: $10,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$51,729,342Other$5,511,307Community Improvement$1,492,600Education$492,071Crime & Legal$420,593Housing & Shelter$409,334Human Services$93,334

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $13,111,842 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $6,843,818 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $6,240,309 over 5y, 11% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $4,653,365 over 5y, 11% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $1,834,494 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetThe Contemporary Arts Center: $1,789,165 over 5y, 12% of budgetThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati: $1,531,886 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $1,470,898 over 5y, 21% of budgetCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $1,360,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $1,344,894 over 5y, 10% of budgetART OPPORTUNITIES INC: $1,202,718 over 5y, 12% of budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $1,178,816 over 5y, 16% of budgetCINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION: $978,628 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetCINCINNATI LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS: $891,753 over 5y, 15% of budgetCincinnati Opera Association Inc: $683,850 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetFITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: $563,461 over 5y, 16% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $507,791 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetKnow Theatre of Cincinnati: $495,148 over 5y, 30% of budgetElementz: $420,593 over 5y, 27% of budgetCincinnati Chamber Orchestra: $415,648 over 5y, 39% of budgetCincinnati Children's Choir: $398,909 over 5y, 34% of budgetVisionaries and Voices: $384,180 over 5y, 13% of budgetPRICE HILL WILL: $366,334 over 5y, 12% of budgetKennedy Heights Arts Center: $363,842 over 5y, 22% of budgetCINCINNATI BOYCHOIR INC: $363,668 over 5y, 36% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $357,700 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLEARNING THROUGH ART: $286,852 over 5y, 26% of budgetBi-Okoto Drum & Dance Theatre: $279,980 over 5y, 23% of budgetPYRAMID HILL SCULPTURE PARK &MUSEUM: $272,366 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY SYMPHONY: $271,013 over 5y, 17% of budgetClifton Cultural Arts Center: $254,352 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetTHE WYOMING FINE ARTS CENTER: $228,182 over 5y, 11% of budgetBEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM: $221,309 over 5y, 20% of budgetNATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC: $202,705 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetWave Pool Corp: $202,176 over 5y, 13% of budgetMutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers: $190,400 over 5y, 28% of budgetVOCAL ARTS ENSEMBLE: $184,049 over 5y, 29% of budgetWordplay Cincy: $183,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetLINTON INCORPORATED: $147,065 over 5y, 15% of budgetOXFORD COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER: $146,525 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetPROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS: $137,500 over 4y, 17% of budgetRobert Oneal Multicultural Arts Center: $132,607 over 5y, 36% of budgetYoung Professionals Choral Collective (YPCC): $132,250 over 5y, 32% of budgetManifest Creative Research Gallery: $109,186 over 4y, 12% of budgetAMERICAN SIGN MUSEUM: $107,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI: $102,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education: $100,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetMy Nose Turns Red Theatre Company: $86,752 over 5y, 16% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
  • Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
  • Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds ART OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Opera Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Know Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds Elementz ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Children's Choir ↗
  • Who funds Visionaries and Voices ↗
  • Who funds PRICE HILL WILL ↗
  • Who funds Kennedy Heights Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI BOYCHOIR INC ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LEARNING THROUGH ART ↗
  • Who funds Bi-Okoto Drum & Dance Theatre ↗
  • Who funds PYRAMID HILL SCULPTURE PARK &MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds Clifton Cultural Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds THE WYOMING FINE ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Wave Pool Corp ↗
  • Who funds Mutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers ↗
  • Who funds VOCAL ARTS ENSEMBLE ↗
  • Who funds Wordplay Cincy ↗

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…The Greater Cincinnat…Louise Taft Semple Fo…Nlt Foundation IncJohn a Schroth Family…Charles H Dater Found…Andrew Jergens Founda…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…United Way of Greater…The Thomas J Emery Me…The Frances R Luther …Josephine S Russell C…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 154 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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