Ohio · Nonprofit
Activities Beyond the Classroom
Activities Beyond the Classroom (Ohio) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,043,559 to it, the largest being JOHN J & MARY R SCHIFF FOUNDATION ($625,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Activities Beyond the Classroom does
Mission
To provide the necessary support for every Cincinnati Public Schools student to engage in extracurricular activities throughout the year, offering the opportunity to build leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and self-discipline that can help them succeed in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Athletics: high school & elementary contract with Cincinnati public schools to provide athletic directors at 16 public high schools and to provide expense payments as outlined in the contract for game workers, security, police and required athletic items such as equipment & uniforms. Includes 4 ABC funded elementary athletics programs: martial arts, soccer, tennis, and swimming.
$2,002,077 spent38% of program spendingCommunity learning centers / resource coordination contract with Cincinnati public schools to provide resource coordinators at 14 public schools to support the needs of the school and students as identified and prioritized by the school's principal. Besides salary, taxes, and benefits, this includes some funds provided by ABC to support unmet needs at the school.
$976,324 spent19% of program spendingFine Arts Contract - Contract with Cincinnati Public Schools to provide after school arts programming for CPS elementary schools; guest national music artists presentations for CPS students; musical theater programming at Withrow High School; technical theater workshops for CPS high schools; professional dance choreography presentations at CPS high schools; Black Music in America programming for CPS elementary schools; piano accompanist for CPS students' rehearsals and performances; afterschool strings mentor programming for CPS students; graphic art services on CPS arts events; drama programming at CPS elementary schools; 2024 International Jazz Festival with international artists for concert and mentoring with students, transportation for students to daily practice and teaching sessions, payment for jazz instructors, and some funding secured by ABC to support Jazz Festival concert expenses.
$278,411 spent5% of program spendingABC clubs, which provide after school extracurricular activities contracts to provide tutoring or other programing at designated CPS schools grant funding to provide other programs and services for children in foster care or other initiatives that support children and the Cincinnati community and fiscal sponsorship for a wide variety of programs connected to programs for CPS students.
$2,001,143 spent$30,836 earned by the program38% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,257,955.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.0M to $2.0M (+100%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 19% · 2018 10% · 2019 11% · 2022 11% · 2023 8% · 2024 66% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Activities Beyond the Classroom’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Sally Grimes
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $148k → $330k.
11 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Activities Beyond the Classroom’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Activities Beyond the Classroom has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Activities Beyond the Classroom.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 63% · 2019 20% · 2020 18% · 2021 15% · 2022 42% · 2023 26% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
36% of Activities Beyond the Classroom's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of Activities Beyond the Classroom's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $723k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Activities Beyond the Classroom runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Activities Beyond the Classroom receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Activities Beyond the Classroom
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Activities Beyond the Classroom: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Activities Beyond the Classroom?
- Activities Beyond the Classroom (Ohio) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,043,559 to it, the largest being JOHN J & MARY R SCHIFF FOUNDATION ($625,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Activities Beyond the Classroom have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $4,043,559 in grants to Activities Beyond the Classroom, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Activities Beyond the Classroom?
- JOHN J & MARY R SCHIFF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $625,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Activities Beyond the Classroom find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 69 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing