Ohio · Nonprofit
ARTSNOW
ARTSNOW (Ohio) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,106,181 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($1,375,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $485k
What Artsnow does
Mission
Artsnow strengthens summit county by advancing its arts and culture assets and building connections between arts & culture and the broad community. Artsnow:a. Provides access to arts and culture information.b. Aggregates and analyzes data about arts and culture to drive sector improvement.c. Advocate for arts and culture across the public, private and nonprofit sector.d. Convenes and connects makers and presenters to strengthen the sector's impact and relevance. E. Builds and strengthens funding for arts and culture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Convening, professional development, and sector connectionArtsnow convened artists, arts and culture organizations, funders, civic leaders, and cross-sector partners throughout fy2025 to strengthen relationships, share knowledge, and build shared understanding. Convenings included professional development workshops, planning sessions, networking opportunities, and large-scale gatherings such as the creative placemaking conference.these activities focused on practical skill building, peer learning, and cross-sector dialogue, supporting both individual practitioners and organizational leaders. Artsnow's convenings strengthened access to resources, increased coordination across organizations, and supported the long-term health and relevance of the arts and culture sector in summit county.providing access to arts and culture information and resourcesArtsnow continued to provide residents, visitors, and cultural practitioners with access to comprehensive information about arts and culture offerings across summit county. Through its online platforms, including summitlive365, Artsnow promoted cultural events, job opportunities, and calls for artists, serving as a centralized information…
$1,032,569 spentof which $896,945 as grants$23,902 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,032,569.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $415k to $778k (+87%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 1% · 2023 6% · 2024 96% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of ARTSNOW’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Nicole Mullet
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $20k → $376k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $656k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Akron Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ARTSNOW raised.
From the IRS filings of ARTSNOW’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
ARTSNOW leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 94% · 2019 51% · 2020 54% · 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 2023 96% — 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
50% of ARTSNOW's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
ARTSNOW draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ARTSNOW's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ARTSNOW receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 ARTSNOW
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
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 ARTSNOW: 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 ARTSNOW?
- ARTSNOW (Ohio) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,106,181 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($1,375,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTSNOW have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,106,181 in grants to ARTSNOW, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTSNOW?
- JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTSNOW 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 14 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