Ohio · Nonprofit
ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI
ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI (Ohio) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,352,535 to it, the largest being JOHN J & MARY R SCHIFF FOUNDATION ($330,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.7M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Art Academy of Cincinnati does
Mission
Our mission is to operate, maintain, and oversee an independent college of art and design.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We operate an accredited post-secondary fine arts education facility (art academy) offering curriculum leading to a bachelor of fine arts degree, and a masters in art education. We serve approximately 175 matriculating students. In addition, we serve approximately 300 individuals in our community arts education programs.
$7,781,034 spentof which $3,720,047 as grants$8,581,803 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,781,034.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6.6M to $12M (+76%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 1% · 2022 7% · 2023 11% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Emily Agricola Holtrop
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $71k → $394k.
6 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $553k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Greater Cincinnati Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI raised.
From the IRS filings of ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 23% · 2019 56% · 2020 15% · 2021 26% · 2022 18% · 2023 25% — 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
79% of ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
81% of ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $296k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 25 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of Education$1.8M
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 ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI: 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 ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI?
- ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI (Ohio) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,352,535 to it, the largest being JOHN J & MARY R SCHIFF FOUNDATION ($330,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,352,535 in grants to ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI?
- JOHN J & MARY R SCHIFF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI 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 42 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing