· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $159k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAYTON PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE | $52,238 |
| THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE | $41,161 |
| THE MUSE MACHINE | $23,111 |
| DAYTON PUBLIC RADIO INC | $21,953 |
| SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $21,197 |
| THE HUMAN RACE THEATER COMPANY | $20,593 |
| DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY | $19,939 |
| K12 GALLERY & TEJAS | $11,454 |
| BACH SOCIETY OF DAYTON | $5,393 |
| THE CONTEMPORARY DAYTON | $5,035 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHE MUSE MACHINE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $321k · revenue +14%
- DCDAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY9× · 2017–2025 · $308k · revenue +21%
- DPDAYTON PUBLIC RADIO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- SVSANGAMON VALLEY YOUTH SYMPHONYone grant, 2018 · $16k
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.
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.
The mission of dyao is to expose young musicians and audiences to the joy and beauty of symphonic music, pursuing excellence through exceptional orchestral training, unique & diverse performance opportunities, and new pathways to symphonic…
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
Provide entertainment, encourage the advancement of theater art in the community and provide an opportunity for cultural and technical growth of guild members through the experience of live theater.
To inspire and change lives through musical excellence.
The mission of Levitt Pavilion Dayton is building community through the power of music, one free concert at a time. At the intersection of social impact and the arts, Levitt is removing barriers and creating access for all, while…
The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…
Choristers' mission is to provide the highest quality choral music education and performance opportunities to the culturally and economically diverse children and youth of northeast Ohio.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
To benefit artists in the community by offering gallery exhibition space, studio space, and through promotion of the art created by members.
The Georgia Symphony Orchestra GSO is a non-profit corporation organized for the purposes of providing significant cultural and educational value to the north-metro Atlanta community. The organization performs public concerts through our…
MUSE is an inclusive and feminist choral community advocating for peace and social justice. We unite our voices to raise awareness and inspire change in ourselves, our audiences, and our world through partnerships that honor the humanity…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Dayton Performing Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE MUSE MACHINE INC ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds The Human Race Inc ↗
- Who funds DAYTON PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds K12 GALLERY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds Contemporary Dayton Inc ↗
- Who funds BACH SOCIETY OF DAYTON INC ↗
- Who funds SANGAMON VALLEY YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Culture Works funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Culture Works. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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