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· Public charity

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
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$4k
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, FY2017 to 2020.

Arts & Culture$215kCivil Rights$11kHealth$6kHuman Services$5kCommunity Improvement$5k
02FY2020 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $23,274, the rows itemized in this filing. The $24,814 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,540 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.
$1,596
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBUS PRO MUSICA INC DBA COLUMBUS INDIANA PHILHARMONIC$4,219
DANCER'S STUDIO INC$1,839
BATESVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL$1,839
TREE COUNTY PLAYERS$1,839
DEARBORN HIGHLAND ARTS COUNCIL INC$1,596
COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$1,596
SOUTHERN INDIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS$1,596
OUR HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN INDIANA$1,250
OUR HERITAGE INC$1,250
COLUMBUS SCOTTISH FESTIVAL$1,250
COLUMBUS CITY BAND$1,250
ACTORS COMMUNITY THEATER OF SEYMOUR INC$1,250
JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATRE INC$1,250
ETHNIC EXPO - CITY OF COLUMBUS$1,250
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA YMCA INC: $5k → 12%OUR HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN INDIANA: $5k → 13%OUR HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN INDIANA: $1k → 13%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$228k · 14 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
3

Total granted

$228k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+34%

Still filing today

57%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CP
    COLUMBUS PRO MUSICA INC DBA COLUMBUS INDIANA PHILHARMONIC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $49k · revenue +16%
  • JC
    JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATRE INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $11k · revenue +72%
  • CS
    COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    2× · 2019–2020 · $8k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • SI
    Southeastern Indiana Young Men's Christian Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +34%
  • CV
    COLUMBUS VISITOR CENTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • SC
    Switzerland County Historical Society Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -55%
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
The Chamber Music Society of Ohio

Preserving the Presentation of Chamber Music

Arts & Culture
2
Bucks County Performing Arts Center

Performing arts concerts and arts in education

—
3
Central Iowa Symphony Association

Support of the Central Iowa Symphony, a local community orchestra

—
4
Youth Symphony Orchestra of East Central Indiana

Providing high quality music education

—
5
Classic Arts Programs Inc

Our mission is to provide a variety of creative collaborative experiences that allow children and adults in Kosciusko County the opportunity to discover develop and share their musical and artistic gifts.

Arts & Culture
6
Jackson County Arts Council Inc

Arts promotion and programs

—
7
Ohio Performing Arts Institute

Preservation of the arts

Arts & Culture
8
Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra Society Inc

Presentation of symphony orchestra and chamber music concerts benefiting 50-700 patrons per event

—
9
Clear Creek Country Theatre

Production

Arts & Culture
10
Cambridge Performing Arts Center

To operate the community theatre in cambridge ohio

—
11
Arts Council of Thayer County

Public arts and entertainment

Arts & Culture
12
Colleton County Arts Council

Promote cultural activities in colleton county, south carolina

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Indiana Center for the Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Switzerland County Historical Society Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DANCER'S STUDIO INC: $24,492 · OtherDANCER'S STUDIO INCBatesville Area Arts Council Inc: $23,609 · OtherBatesville Area Arts Council IncDEARBORN HIGHLANDS ARTS COUNCIL INC: $20,624 · OtherDEARBORN HIGHLANDS ARTS COUNCIL INCACTORS COMMUNITY THEATER OF SEYMOUR INC: $15,000 · OtherACTORS COMMUNITY THEATER OF SEYMOUR INCCity of Columbus - Columbus Animal Care Services: $11,250 · OtherCity of Columbus - Columbus Animal Care ServicesCOLUMBUS CITY BAND: $11,250 · OtherCOLUMBUS CITY BANDJENNINGS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OUR HERITAGE INC: $11,250 · OtherJENNINGS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OUR HERITAGE INCTREE COUNTY PLAYERS INC: $9,195 · OtherTREE COUNTY PLAYERS INCCOLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $7,979 · OtherCOLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACOLUMBUS VISITOR CENTER INC: $5,000 · OtherSwitzerland County Historical Society Inc: $5,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS PRO MUSICA INC DBA COLUMBUS INDIANA PHILHARMONIC: $48,742 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS PRO MUSICA INC DBA COLUMBUS …Southern Indiana Center for the Arts Inc: $20,852 · Arts & CultureSouthern Indiana Center for the Arts …JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $11,250 · Arts & CultureJACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATRE INCOUR HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $6,250 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Indiana Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $5,036 · Human ServicesCOLUMBUS SCOTTISH FESTIVAL INC: $6,250 · Recreation & Sports
Other$144,649Arts & Culture$80,844Human Services$11,286Recreation & Sports$6,250

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

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
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.

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.

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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 Columbus Area Arts Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Columbus Area Arts Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 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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