Ohio · Nonprofit
ARTS IN STARK
ARTS IN STARK (Ohio) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,128,552 to it, the largest being STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($7,082,415). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Arts in Stark does
Mission
The mission of artsinstark is to use the arts to advance community goals around economic development, tourism, well-being and education, in order to make stark county a thriving and vibrant region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Artsinstark administers a program that annually awards operating and special project grants to nonprofit organizations, schools, and artists across stark county. The organization leads public art initiatives and community celebrations that enhance the cultural vibrancy of the entire county. Additionally, artsinstark oversees the smarts program, which integrates the arts into education to supercharge learning in county schools.
$1,076,714 spentof which $856,763 as grants$295,320 earned by the program38% of program spendingArtsinstark maintains the cultural center for the arts campus, an eight-acre hub for arts and culture in downtown canton. The campus includes a 330,000-square-foot main facility, an urban greenspace park, and the newly renovated en-rich-ment arts education center. The cultural center is home to four resident organizations-canton ballet, canton museum of art, en-rich-ment, and sing stark!-which collectively bring the arts to more than 100,000 people annually.
$1,409,731 spent$13,711 earned by the program49% of program spendingArtsinstark's marketing and communications efforts focus on building awareness of and participation in arts and cultural activities throughout stark county. The organization primarily utilizes digital communications, paid advertising, direct outreach, and partnerships, including tools such as artpass and the artful newsletter, to share information about programs, artists, organizations, and cultural events to both audiences in the county and throughout the region.
$371,990 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,858,435.
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 $24M to $27M (+12%).
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 12% · 2018 2% · 2021 9% · 2022 23% · 2023 29% · 2024 11% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of ARTS IN STARK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Maureen Ater
President and CEO
Board chair
Emil Alecusan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $1.8M.
4 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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: $1.5M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Stark County Convention & Visitors' Bureau). These are real filings, and they are not money ARTS IN STARK raised.
From the IRS filings of ARTS IN STARK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
ARTS IN STARK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
66% 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 IN STARK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 79% · 2019 47% · 2020 22% · 2021 74% · 2022 72% · 2023 60% — 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
60% of ARTS IN STARK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
59% of ARTS IN STARK's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.0M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.1M 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
ARTS IN STARK is better cushioned than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ARTS IN STARK
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 ARTS IN STARK: 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 IN STARK?
- ARTS IN STARK (Ohio) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,128,552 to it, the largest being STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($7,082,415). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARTS IN STARK have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $12,128,552 in grants to ARTS IN STARK, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS IN STARK?
- STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,082,415 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS IN STARK 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.
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 47 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