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Columbus Area Arts Council Inc

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.

$25k
Granted FY2020
14
Itemized grants FY2020
14
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$23k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$1,596
Largest grant, FY2020
$4,219
Organizations funded a year
5 to 14
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations Columbus Area Arts Council Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202014$23k0%
FY201914$93k29%
FY201812$87k67%
FY20175$39kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Arts & Culture$215kCivil Rights$11kHealth$6kHuman Services$5kCommunity Improvement$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Columbus Pro Musica Inc Dba Columbus Indiana Philharmonic$48,74241%
Dancer's Studio Inc$24,4924n/a
Batesville Area Arts Council Inc$23,60943%
Southern Indiana Center for the Arts Inc$20,852320%
Dearborn Highlands Arts Council Inc$20,6244n/a
Actors Community Theater of Seymour Inc$15,0003n/a
City of Columbus - Columbus Animal Care Services$11,2503n/a
Columbus City Band$11,2503n/a
Jackson County Community Theatre Inc$11,250317%
Jennings County Historical Society Our Heritage Inc$11,2503n/a
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All grantees of Columbus Area Arts Council Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Columbus Pro Musica Inc Dba Columbus Indiana Philharmonic$48,74241%
Dancer's Studio Inc$24,4924n/a
Batesville Area Arts Council Inc$23,60943%
Southern Indiana Center for the Arts Inc$20,852320%
Dearborn Highlands Arts Council Inc$20,6244n/a
Actors Community Theater of Seymour Inc$15,0003n/a
City of Columbus - Columbus Animal Care Services$11,2503n/a
Columbus City Band$11,2503n/a
Jackson County Community Theatre Inc$11,250317%
Jennings County Historical Society Our Heritage Inc$11,2503n/a
Tree County Players Inc$9,19522%
Columbus Symphony Orchestra$7,979216%
Columbus Scottish Festival Inc$6,250219%
Our Hospice of South Central Indiana Inc$6,25020%
Southeastern Indiana Young Men's Christian Association Inc$5,03610%
Columbus Visitor Center Inc$5,0001n/a
Switzerland County Historical Society Inc$5,00014%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Columbus Area Arts Council Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetColumbus Pro Musica Inc Dba Columbus Indiana Philharmonic: $48,742 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBatesville Area Arts Council Inc: $23,609 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetSouthern Indiana Center for the Arts Inc: $20,852 over 3y, 20% of budgetJackson County Community Theatre Inc: $11,250 over 3y, 17% of budgetTree County Players Inc: $9,195 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetColumbus Symphony Orchestra: $7,979 over 2y, 16% of budgetColumbus Scottish Festival Inc: $6,250 over 2y, 19% of budgetOur Hospice of South Central Indiana Inc: $6,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Indiana Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $5,036 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSwitzerland County Historical Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% 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 10.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA2.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Columbus Area Arts Council Inc

How much does Columbus Area Arts Council Inc give?
Columbus Area Arts Council Inc reported 14 itemized grants totaling $23,274, out of $24,814 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Columbus Area Arts Council Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (89%), Civil Rights (5%), Health (3%).
Who are Columbus Area Arts Council Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Columbus Pro Musica Inc Dba Columbus Indiana Philharmonic ($49k), Dancer's Studio Inc ($24k), Batesville Area Arts Council Inc ($24k).
Does Columbus Area Arts Council Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Columbus Area Arts Council Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Columbus Area Arts Council Inc based?
Columbus Area Arts Council Inc is based in IN.

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 17 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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