Ohio · Nonprofit
ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS
ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS (Ohio) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,907,756 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($1,870,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Assembly for the Arts does
Mission
To convene, coordinate, and collaborate with everyone who lives and works in greater cleveland to strengthen and support those in the region who create, present, experience and appreciate all forms of arts and culture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
List of accomplishments (fy 2024-2025) public support & advocacy: successfully spearheaded research for public funding of arts and culture, leading to a successful levy that will generate an estimated 130 million for some 300 regional nonprofit organizations over the next 10 years. The measure passed with 71.2% voter approval. Artist support & grantmaking: - creative impact fund (cif): expanded the program to support 29 individual artists (up from 16 in 2024) with unrestricted grants totaling 215,000 for community-based civic projects. - boost fund: launched and managed a flexible funding stream that provided accessible, small-scale grants to 147 local artists. Transformative arts fund (taf) management: served as the administrator for a 3 million arpa investment from the city of cleveland. This supported 7 large-scale public art projects, resulting in payments to 400 artists and contracts with 300 local businesses. Technical assistance & professional development: provided strategic advice and business coaching to over 1,300 unique users via online and in-person consultancies. Partnered with organizations like cose to foster "art at work" networking, connecting creative…
$4,523,607 spentof which $3,367,677 as grants$67,582 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,523,607.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.7M to $3.0M (+71%).
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 25% · 2019 23% · 2020 11% · 2021 56% · 2022 9% · 2023 56% · 2024 52% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Chinenye Nkemere
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $235k → $310k.
2 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $2.8M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Cleveland Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS raised.
From the IRS filings of ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS’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
ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 77% · 2018 46% · 2019 55% · 2020 61% · 2021 66% · 2022 56% · 2023 82% — 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
67% of ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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 ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS: 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 ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS?
- ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS (Ohio) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,907,756 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($1,870,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,907,756 in grants to ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS?
- THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,870,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSEMBLY FOR THE ARTS 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 19 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