Ohio · Nonprofit
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $377,487 to it, the largest being BERNICE AND DAVID E DAVIS ART FDN ($196,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $463k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $377k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Artists Archives of the Western Res does
Mission
The Artists Archives of the Western Reserve preserves representative bodies of work created by ohio visual artists and, through ongoing research, exhibition and educational programs, actively documents and promotes this cultural heritage for the benefit of the public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Artists Archives of the Western Reserve (aawr) serves a diverse and vibrant community through its mission and programming activities. Exhibitions and programming are strategically planned to utilize community partnerships and provide impactful exhibitions in our home gallery as well as various satellite locations. In 2024, featured aawr exhibitions were mentioned multiple times in our major news putlets, includuing the plain dealer newspaper, scene, collective arts network (can) and canvas magazines. In 2024, 693 works by 425 different artists were exhibited, including 257 works from the collection of 106 archived artists. 257 works by 66 archived artists, from the collection were on loan to various partners at different locations in the community. The annual members show continues to grow and in 2024 included 152 works by 152 artists.
$252,084 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $252,084.
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 $1.7M to $2.0M (+16%).
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 3% · 2018 16% · 2019 8% · 2020 13% · 2021 9% · 2022 115%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $29k → $61k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 48% · 2019 55% · 2020 78% · 2021 45% · 2022 95% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“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
75% of ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
84% of ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES: 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 ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES?
- ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $377,487 to it, the largest being BERNICE AND DAVID E DAVIS ART FDN ($196,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $377,487 in grants to ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES?
- BERNICE AND DAVID E DAVIS ART FDN is the largest funder on record, with $196,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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