Ohio · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL GAR
ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL GAR (Ohio) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $569,852 to it, the largest being SAINT LUKES FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ($325,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $316k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $570k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Association for African American Cultural Gar does
Mission
To develop and preserve the african american cultural garden. To promote education and encourage interest in the african american culture and heritage. To foster a spirit of brotherhood/sisterhood and world peace.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grant for the aacg monument construction project from direct grant and other galas to help raise money for the garden construction - $257,000
$257,000 spentof which $257,000 as grants89% of program spendingJuneteenth even is held to celebrate african american culture and heritage
$18,287 spentof which $18,287 as grants6% of program spendingSpecial event: one world days
$3,990 spentof which $3,990 as grants1% of program spending2025 mlk celebrations
$1,773 spent1% of program spendingGolf outing
$4,749 spent$5,000 earned by the program2% of program spendingSankofa
$2,310 spent1% of program spendingAaacg holiday party
$1,247 spent0% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $289,356.
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 2021 to 2022, from $29k to $188k (+548%).
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.
95% of ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL GAR’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Obie Shelton
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $75k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL GAR’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
ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL GAR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 52% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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
20% of ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL GAR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
99% of ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL GAR'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
ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL GAR has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL GAR
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL GAR?
- ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL GAR (Ohio) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $569,852 to it, the largest being SAINT LUKES FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ($325,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL GAR have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $569,852 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL GAR, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL GAR?
- SAINT LUKES FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO is the largest funder on record, with $325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL GAR 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 10 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