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Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$273k
Granted FY2023
12
Grants FY2023
12
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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100% of Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $273k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’20
7
’21
12
’22
9
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$16,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$90,300
Organizations funded a year
10 to 15
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY202312$273k0%
FY202215$304k33%
FY202110$294k10%
FY202010$226kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$5.9MEducation$1.1M

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
Miami University$166,3004n/a
Xavier University$69,80040%
Art Academy of Cincinnati$55,00040%
University of Dayton$28,50040%
Mount St Joseph University$19,30040%
Wilmington College$10,00020%
Cedarville University$9,80020%
Thomas More University Inc$9,70020%
Antioch College Corporation$9,30040%
Central State University$5,30020%
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All grantees of Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Miami University$166,3004n/a
Xavier University$69,80040%
Art Academy of Cincinnati$55,00040%
University of Dayton$28,50040%
Mount St Joseph University$19,30040%
Wilmington College$10,00020%
Cedarville University$9,80020%
Thomas More University Inc$9,70020%
Antioch College Corporation$9,30040%
Central State University$5,30020%
Earlham College Inc$4,00010%
Wilberforce University Wilberforce University$2,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($708k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetXavier University: $69,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArt Academy of Cincinnati: $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $28,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMount St Joseph University: $19,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWilmington College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCedarville University: $9,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThomas More University Inc: $9,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAntioch College Corporation: $9,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCentral State University: $5,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEarlham College Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilberforce University Wilberforce University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 11.

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.

Tr Uw Chas E Schell EducationOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tr Uw Chas E Schell Education · Thomas R Schiff Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc

How much does Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc give?
Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc reported 12 grants totaling $272,600 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (84%), Education (16%).
Who are Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Miami University ($166k), Xavier University ($70k), Art Academy of Cincinnati ($55k).
Does Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tr Uw Chas E Schell Education, Thomas R Schiff Foundation, The Dayton Foundation.
Where is Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc based?
Three Arts Scholarship Fund Inc 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 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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