Ohio · Public charity
Culture Works
CULTURE WORKS is the funding, advocacy, and service organization that passionately inspires, supports, and sustains arts and culture in the dayton region.
- $605k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $222k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $21,197
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $52,238
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Culture Works funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $222k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $196k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $262k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $319k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $319k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $262k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $374k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $359k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dayton Performing Arts Alliance | $635,540 | 9 | 1% |
| The Dayton Art Institute | $591,947 | 9 | 2% |
| The Muse Machine Inc | $320,650 | 9 | 4% |
| Dayton Contemporary Dance Company | $307,871 | 9 | 3% |
| The Human Race Inc | $296,359 | 9 | 4% |
| Dayton Public Radio Inc | $185,799 | 9 | 3% |
| Springfield Symphony Orchestra Association | $129,544 | 7 | 2% |
| K12 Gallery for Young People | $120,976 | 8 | 3% |
| Contemporary Dayton Inc | $32,292 | 6 | 1% |
| Bach Society of Dayton Inc | $31,508 | 6 | 5% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dayton Performing Arts Alliance | $635,540 | 9 | 1% |
| The Dayton Art Institute | $591,947 | 9 | 2% |
| The Muse Machine Inc | $320,650 | 9 | 4% |
| Dayton Contemporary Dance Company | $307,871 | 9 | 3% |
| The Human Race Inc | $296,359 | 9 | 4% |
| Dayton Public Radio Inc | $185,799 | 9 | 3% |
| Springfield Symphony Orchestra Association | $129,544 | 7 | 2% |
| K12 Gallery for Young People | $120,976 | 8 | 3% |
| Contemporary Dayton Inc | $32,292 | 6 | 1% |
| Bach Society of Dayton Inc | $31,508 | 6 | 5% |
| Sangamon Valley Youth Symphony | $15,860 | 1 | 13% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Culture Works supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Dayton Foundation Depository · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · The Dayton Foundation · Miriam Rosenthal Foundation for the Arts Cibc · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · Levin Family Foundation · The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · Mathile Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Culture Works
- How much does Culture Works give?
- Culture Works reported 10 itemized grants totaling $222,074, out of $604,847 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Culture Works fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
- Who are Culture Works's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dayton Performing Arts Alliance ($636k), The Dayton Art Institute ($592k), The Muse Machine Inc ($321k).
- Does Culture Works fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Culture Works?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dayton Foundation Depository, Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003, Dayton Foundation Plus Inc.
- Where is Culture Works based?
- Culture Works is based in OH.
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