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Equity in the Arts Fund

The organization is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit, of and to carry out the charitable and educational functions of the cleveland foundation.

$214k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
10
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$22,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 23
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$5.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Equity in the Arts Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementScience & TechEducationOther
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
FY202310$214k50%
FY202221$354k52%
FY202023$343kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$654kCommunity Improvement$93kHealth$38kEducation$35kYouth Development$30kEnvironment$27kHuman Services$20kScience & Tech$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Assembly for the Arts$115,00035%
Duffy Liturgical Dance Ensemble$50,000324%
Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center$50,00027%
Latinus Theater Experience Company$40,000311%
Cleveland Public Theatre Inc$35,00021%
East 66th Street Services Inc$33,00021%
Atnsc Center for Healing & Creative Leadership$30,0001n/a
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation$30,00020%
Djapo Cultural Arts Institute Inc$30,00028%
Cleveland Print Room Inc$30,00024%
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All grantees of Equity in the Arts Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Assembly for the Arts$115,00035%
Duffy Liturgical Dance Ensemble$50,000324%
Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center$50,00027%
Latinus Theater Experience Company$40,000311%
Cleveland Public Theatre Inc$35,00021%
East 66th Street Services Inc$33,00021%
Atnsc Center for Healing & Creative Leadership$30,0001n/a
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation$30,00020%
Djapo Cultural Arts Institute Inc$30,00028%
Cleveland Print Room Inc$30,00024%
Broadway School of Music & the Arts$29,00026%
Foluke Cultural Arts Center Inc$27,50025%
Balance Point Studios$27,0001n/a
Environmental Health Watch$27,00011%
Greater Cleveland Urban Film Fdn$25,00027%
MVMT Dance Co$22,000113%
Kings & Queens of Art$20,0001n/a
Art of Me Productions$20,0001n/a
Martha and Tonya Johnson Legacy Project$20,0001n/a
Loiter$20,000110%
The Fab Foundation$15,00011%
Life Exchange Center$15,00012%
Birthing Beautiful Communities$15,0001n/a
Near West Theatre Inc$15,00011%
Esperanza Inc$15,00011%
Comite Mexicano Inc$15,0001n/a
Peel Dem Layers Back$15,000112%
Cleveland Public Library Foundation$15,00012%
Eliza Bryant Village$13,00010%
Africahouse International$10,00015%
Campus District Inc$10,00013%
Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum$10,00014%
Karamu House Inc$10,00010%
Twelve Literary Arts$10,00012%
Mojuba Dance Collective$10,0001n/a
Little Lumpys Center for Educational Initiatives$10,000114%
Collectivexpress Incorporated$10,000114%
The Cleveland Play House$10,00010%
Pals for Healing$7,50012%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Equity in the Arts Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAssembly for the Arts: $115,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetDuffy Liturgical Dance Ensemble: $50,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetJulia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center: $50,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetLatinus Theater Experience Company: $40,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCleveland Public Theatre Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEast 66th Street Services Inc: $33,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCuyahoga Community College Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDjapo Cultural Arts Institute Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetCleveland Print Room Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetBroadway School of Music & the Arts: $29,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetFoluke Cultural Arts Center Inc: $27,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetEnvironmental Health Watch: $27,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGreater Cleveland Urban Film Fdn: $25,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetMVMT Dance Co: $22,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLoiter: $20,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetThe Fab Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLife Exchange Center: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNear West Theatre Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEsperanza Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPeel Dem Layers Back: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCleveland Public Library Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetEliza Bryant Village: $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAfricahouse International: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCampus District Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNegro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetKaramu House Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTwelve Literary Arts: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLittle Lumpys Center for Educational Initiatives: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCollectivexpress Incorporated: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetThe Cleveland Play House: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPals for Healing: $7,500 over 1y, 1.9% 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 31.

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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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH65.5× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · Turrell Fund · In Our Backyards Inc · Treu Mart Fund · The Abington Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Reinberger 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 Equity in the Arts Fund

How much does Equity in the Arts Fund give?
Equity in the Arts Fund reported 10 grants totaling $214,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Equity in the Arts Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (72%), Community Improvement (10%), Health (4%).
Who are Equity in the Arts Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Assembly for the Arts ($115k), Duffy Liturgical Dance Ensemble ($50k), Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center ($50k).
Does Equity in the Arts Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Equity in the Arts Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation.
Where is Equity in the Arts Fund based?
Equity in the Arts Fund is based in OH.

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 39 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 2023, released 2023. 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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