How much does Ohio Humanities Council give?

Ohio Humanities Council reported 14 itemized grants totaling $212,500, out of $311,134 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 73 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Ohio Humanities Council fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (88%), Education (5%), Human Services (3%).

Who are Ohio Humanities Council's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland ($103k), Ohioana Library Association ($96k), Decorative Arts Center of Ohio ($69k).

Does Ohio Humanities Council fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ohio Humanities Council?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ohio History Connection, The Cleveland Foundation, Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation.

Where is Ohio Humanities Council based?

Ohio Humanities Council is based in OH.

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Ohio Humanities Council

The OHIO HUMANITIES COUNCIL is a not-for-profit whose principal business activity is to encourage ohioans to use history, literature, philosophy, and other humanities disciplines to gain new insights, explore new ideas, and develop respect for new perspectives. Ohc encourages individuals and communities to share, explore and be inspired…

$311k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 14
Itemized grants FY2024: 20
Organizations funded FY2023: 50%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $213k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $17,500
Organizations funded a year: 18 to 73; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $1.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Ohio Humanities Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	14	$213k	29%
FY2023	20	$341k	50%
FY2022	52	$612k	54%
FY2021	65	$1.0M	43%
FY2020	73	$815k	86%
FY2019	32	$249k	84%
FY2018	20	$268k	80%
FY2017	18	$265k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.4MEducation$182kHuman Services$103kHealth$57kEnvironment$32kFood & Nutrition$27kReligion$20kPublic Benefit$14kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland	$102,750	7	0%
Ohioana Library Association	$96,000	4	5%
Decorative Arts Center of Ohio	$68,500	4	3%
Springfield Museum of Art	$66,000	3	2%
Cleveland Restoration Society Inc	$60,594	3	2%
Voyageur Media Group Inc	$57,500	3	56%
Midstory	$55,008	3	17%
Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV	$55,000	3	0%
Books by the Banks	$55,000	3	21%
Allen County Historical Society	$53,495	3	7%

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All grantees of Ohio Humanities Council by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland	$102,750	7	0%
Ohioana Library Association	$96,000	4	5%
Decorative Arts Center of Ohio	$68,500	4	3%
Springfield Museum of Art	$66,000	3	2%
Cleveland Restoration Society Inc	$60,594	3	2%
Voyageur Media Group Inc	$57,500	3	56%
Midstory	$55,008	3	17%
Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV	$55,000	3	0%
Books by the Banks	$55,000	3	21%
Allen County Historical Society	$53,495	3	7%
Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House	$51,228	3	27%
Toledo Opera Association	$51,000	2	4%
The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education	$49,940	3	1%
Marion County Historical Society	$46,000	2	12%
Trumbull County Historical Soc	$45,965	3	7%
Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Library and Museums	$45,668	3	1%
Athens County Historical Society	$45,425	3	7%
Over-The-Rhine Museum	$44,850	4	13%
The Ohio State University	$44,769	4	n/a
Wood County Historical Society	$41,000	3	5%
Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron	$40,000	2	0%
Kent State University	$40,000	2	n/a
Media Working Group	$37,288	2	22%
Cincinnati Museum Association	$35,274	2	0%
Bowling Green State University	$34,955	3	n/a
Ohio University	$34,882	3	n/a
International Women's Air & Space Museum Inc	$32,863	3	28%
Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History	$31,500	2	18%
American Society of Ephesus Inc	$31,479	2	8%
Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization	$31,344	2	5%
Columbus Metropolitan Library	$30,278	2	n/a
Cincinnati Museum Center	$30,000	2	0%
Canton Museum of Art	$29,900	2	1%
The Dick and Jane Project	$29,500	2	4%
Ohio History Connection	$28,875	2	0%
National First Ladies Library	$27,500	2	3%
Scioto Literary	$27,000	2	n/a
Westcott House Foundation	$26,000	2	3%
Fevered Dreams Productions	$26,000	2	3%
The Fort Meigs Association	$26,000	2	3%
Lorain County Historical Society Inc	$26,000	2	5%
Highland County Historical Society Inc	$26,000	2	8%
Zoar Community Association	$26,000	2	3%
Summit County Historical Society of Akron Ohio	$26,000	2	2%
Adena Mansion and Gardens Society	$26,000	2	5%
Dennison Railroad Depot Museum Inc	$25,398	2	2%
Massillon Museum	$25,220	2	1%
Fort Recovery Historical Society	$25,194	2	12%
Southern Ohio Folklife	$25,000	2	n/a
Miami University	$25,000	2	n/a
Lesbians Benefitting the Arts Inc	$24,970	1	n/a
LIT Youngstown	$24,863	2	16%
Ashland Main Street Inc	$24,750	4	35%
Marietta College	$23,750	2	0%
Mac-A-Cheek Foundations for the Humanities	$23,275	1	n/a
Mohican Historical Society Inc	$23,041	2	9%
Urban Appalachian Community Coalition	$23,000	2	17%
Preble County Historical Society Inc	$23,000	1	21%
Delaware County Historical Society	$22,000	2	6%
Southern Ohio Museum Corporation	$22,000	2	2%
Literary Cleveland	$21,668	2	3%
Columbus Museum of Art	$21,500	2	0%
Robert Oneal Multicultural Arts Center	$20,762	2	4%
Coalition for the Common Good	$20,000	1	0%
East Mt Zion Baptist Church	$20,000	1	n/a
Starfire Council of Greater Cincinnati Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Ukrainian Museum-Archive Inc	$20,000	2	5%
Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Assoc	$20,000	1	2%
The University of Toledo Foundation	$19,965	1	0%
Hardin County Historical Museums	$19,866	2	46%
Great Circle Alliance	$19,789	1	25%
Denison University	$19,410	1	0%
Hubbard House Underground Railroad Museum Inc	$18,034	2	n/a
Noble County Historical Society Inc	$18,000	2	n/a
Cuyahoga County Public Library	$18,000	1	n/a
King Studios	$17,500	1	n/a
Stark County Historical Society	$17,500	2	2%
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Inc	$17,500	1	0%
The Robbins Hunter Museum Restoration and Preservation Corp	$17,462	2	8%
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation	$17,000	1	0%
The Teaching Cleveland Foundation	$16,600	1	8%
Friends of the Hartman Rock Garden	$16,000	1	n/a
Overfield Tavern Museum	$16,000	1	13%
Spring Hill Historic Home Inc	$16,000	1	14%
Delhi Historical Society	$16,000	1	25%
Darke County Historical Society	$16,000	1	3%
Akron Art Museum	$16,000	1	0%
Ohio Hill Country Heritage Are	$16,000	1	13%
The John P Parker Historical Society Inc	$16,000	1	22%
The Thurber House	$16,000	1	3%
The Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions	$15,980	1	3%
Wilmington College	$15,895	1	0%
Belt Media Collaborative	$15,500	1	11%
Ursuline College	$15,301	1	0%
Wexner Center Foundation	$15,000	1	1%
Zygote Press Inc	$15,000	1	6%
Mount Zion Baptist Church Preservation Society	$15,000	1	3%
Toledo Memorial Park and Mausoleum	$15,000	1	0%
Center for Arts-Inspired Learning	$15,000	2	0%
The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage	$15,000	1	0%
Corporation for Findlay Market	$15,000	1	0%
German Village Society	$15,000	1	2%
Greater Cleveland Urban Film Fdn	$15,000	1	3%
Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens Foundation	$14,958	1	1%
Scenic Scioto Heritage Trail Inc	$14,600	1	n/a
Association for African American Cultural Gar	$14,000	2	28%
The Unionville Tavern Preservation Society	$13,859	1	6%
Wright State University	$13,500	1	n/a
League of Women Voters of Ohio Education Fund	$13,500	1	4%
University of Cincinnati	$13,087	1	n/a
Miami Valley Public Media Inc	$12,750	1	2%
Dayton Society of Natural History	$12,241	1	0%
Greene County Ohio Historical Socie Ty	$12,209	1	n/a
Lgbt Legacy Project	$12,000	1	19%
Eyej	$12,000	1	7%
Maroon Arts Group	$12,000	1	2%
The Woman's Club of Dayton Foundation	$12,000	1	8%
Johnny Appleseed Foundation	$12,000	1	7%
Shaker Historical Society	$11,765	2	5%
Cincinnati Preservation Association	$11,625	1	1%
Franklin Area Historical Society	$11,544	1	n/a
Bradford Ohio Railroad Museum	$11,250	1	12%
Opera Project Columbus Inc	$11,000	1	5%
Black Studies & Library Association	$10,920	1	n/a
West Creek Conservancy	$10,500	1	0%
Historic Southwest Ohio Inc	$10,000	1	4%
Case Western Reserve University	$10,000	1	0%
Hancock Historical Museum Association	$10,000	1	3%
Columbus Landmarks Foundation	$10,000	1	4%
Ohio Glass Museum	$10,000	1	7%
Friends of the Museum	$10,000	1	21%
Heritage Sylvania Inc	$10,000	1	6%
The Great Lakes Historical Society	$10,000	1	1%
The Musical Arts Association	$10,000	1	0%
Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame Baseball Heritage Museum	$10,000	1	4%
WACO Historical Society	$10,000	1	5%
Johnston Farm Friends Council	$10,000	1	n/a
Gammon House Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Aviation Hall of Fame	$10,000	1	2%
Lake County Historical Society	$10,000	1	4%
Roscoe Village Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Akron Childrens Museum	$10,000	1	2%
National Cambridge Collectors Inc	$10,000	1	6%
Armstrong Air & Space Museum	$10,000	1	n/a
The Lucas County-Maumee Valley Historical Society	$10,000	1	17%
Lorain Historical Society	$10,000	1	3%
Ripley Heritage Inc	$10,000	1	15%
Cleveland Grays Armory	$10,000	1	12%
Nuestra Gente Community Projects Inc	$10,000	1	11%
Community Arts Project Inc	$10,000	1	1%
YWCA Mahoning Valley	$10,000	1	0%
Packard Museum Association	$9,959	1	4%
Champaign Aviation Museum	$9,842	1	1%
Friends of the Museums Inc	$8,750	1	n/a
Perry County Board of Election	$7,500	1	n/a
American Sign Museum	$7,500	1	1%
Dayton International Peace Museum Inc	$7,500	1	2%
Hudson Library & Historical Society	$7,500	1	0%
Ish Festival	$7,500	1	1%
Youngstown State University	$7,487	1	n/a
North Union Farmers Market	$7,476	1	2%
Power of the Pen	$6,950	1	2%
Green Lawn Cemetery Association	$6,910	1	1%
Lakewood Historical Society	$6,850	1	5%
North Baltimore Ohio Area Historical Society Inc	$6,750	1	n/a
Multifaith Council of Northwest Ohio	$6,700	1	n/a
Walsh University Inc	$6,498	1	0%
Peninsula Foundation Inc	$6,347	1	1%
The Dawes Arboretum	$6,000	1	0%
Fulton County Historical Society	$6,000	1	5%
Historical Society of Mount Pleasant Ohio	$5,730	1	n/a
Mahoning Valley Historical Society	$5,231	1	0%
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company	$5,000	1	n/a
The Columbus Historical Society	$5,000	1	18%
Cleveland State University	$5,000	1	n/a
Kent Historical Society	$5,000	1	6%
New Works Writer Series	$5,000	1	n/a
Way Public Library Foundation and Friends	$5,000	1	2%

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.

Ohio Humanities Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 145 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 145.

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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.

Ohio History ConnectionOH69.3× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ohio History Connection · The Cleveland Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Stark Community Foundation · W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund · The George Gund Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · Martha Holden Jennings 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 Ohio Humanities Council

How much does Ohio Humanities Council give?: Ohio Humanities Council reported 14 itemized grants totaling $212,500, out of $311,134 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 73 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ohio Humanities Council fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (88%), Education (5%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Ohio Humanities Council's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland ($103k), Ohioana Library Association ($96k), Decorative Arts Center of Ohio ($69k).
Does Ohio Humanities Council fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ohio Humanities Council?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ohio History Connection, The Cleveland Foundation, Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation.
Where is Ohio Humanities Council based?: Ohio Humanities Council is based in OH.