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ARTS IMPACT INC

ARTS IMPACT INC (Ohio) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,775,707 to it, the largest being THE CHAR AND CHUCK FOWLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($410,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$958k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
$256k
14/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01What it does

What Arts Impact Inc does

Mission

Arts impact brings learning to life through art. The organization's primary purpose is to use the arts to help children learn, create, imagine, dream, explore, grow, and succeed.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Arts impact's innovative arts-integrated programs respond to educational trends and meet the needs of students, teachers, and the community of greater cleveland. The organization has served 50,000 students during the past 24 years. Our mission is to bring learning to life through art. Our primary purpose is to use the arts to help children learn, create, imagine, dream, explore, grow and succeed. Arts impact has become an important school partner for the cleveland metropolitan school district (cmsd), in particular, by providing multisession arts integration residencies that impact achievement and increase student engagement. First graders build bird gliders while studying life science. Second graders create digital stop-motion animations on ipads while studying the weather and atmosphere. This creative, hands-on learning helps the curriculum "stick." since 2023, arts impact has been offering arts integration through an intensive delevery model in two schools. This is proven highly effective with program evaluation showing increased student engagement and joy in learning. Both students and teachers were highly satisfied with the program. Since 2019, arts impact has offered series…

    $818,433 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $818,433.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($453k) Expenses 100 ($742k) Net assets 100 ($376k)2018 Revenue 106 ($480k) Expenses 93 ($693k) Net assets 43 ($162k)2019 Revenue 159 ($722k) Expenses 83 ($620k) Net assets 70 ($264k)2020 Revenue 120 ($542k) Expenses 87 ($648k) Net assets 42 ($158k)2021 Revenue 167 ($758k) Expenses 83 ($619k) Net assets 79 ($297k)2022 Revenue 209 ($946k) Expenses 113 ($841k) Net assets 107 ($402k)2023 Revenue 177 ($802k) Expenses 115 ($854k) Net assets 93 ($350k)2024 Revenue 191 ($865k) Expenses 117 ($872k) Net assets 91 ($343k)2025 Revenue 212 ($958k) Expenses 141 ($1.0M) Net assets 68 ($256k)
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Revenue (212)Expenses (141)Net assets (68)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $387k to $169k (−56%).

$387k
$169k
$275k
$270k
$312k
$434k
$374k
$360k
$278k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 18% · 2018 19% · 2019 14% · 2020 16% · 2021 50% · 2022 11% · 2023 15% · 2024 55% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

67% of ARTS IMPACT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$289k
’17
−$214k
’18
$102k
’19
−$106k
’20
$139k
’21
$105k
’22
−$52k
’23
−$7k
’24
−$86k
’25
1.3
months of
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.

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Listed111314141616171915
Joined·+4+1+3+3+0+3+3+2
No longer listed·20310216
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $221k → $311k.

4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 ARTS IMPACT INC’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

ARTS IMPACT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

27% 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 ARTS IMPACT INC.

23%
largest funder
62%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 53% · 2019 41% · 2020 32% · 2021 30% · 2022 29% · 2023 46% — broadly stable.

“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

64% of ARTS IMPACT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

96% of ARTS IMPACT INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

NY
OH
CA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $403k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ARTS IMPACT INC has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding ARTS IMPACT INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.

Federal$25k
grants $25kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$25k

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 ARTS IMPACT INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 9%Fundraising 12%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTS IMPACT INC: 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 ARTS IMPACT INC?
ARTS IMPACT INC (Ohio) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,775,707 to it, the largest being THE CHAR AND CHUCK FOWLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($410,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARTS IMPACT INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,775,707 in grants to ARTS IMPACT INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARTS IMPACT INC?
THE CHAR AND CHUCK FOWLER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $410,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARTS IMPACT INC 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 20 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