Ohio · Nonprofit
BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS
BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Ohio) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,685,991 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($917,222). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What Beck Center for the Arts does
Mission
To inspire, enrich, and transform lives through dynamic arts experiences.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Beck center provides arts education programs weekly to over 4,000 individuals from a five-county area on our campus and at community locations. We offer over 300 classes, lessons, and programs in dance, music, theater, visual arts, and creative arts therapies. Our theater and dance education programs stage seven productions each year attended by over 10,000 parents, family, and friends. Beck center is committed to making our arts programming accessible. We offer many free programs and have a robust financial assistance program to ensure that individuals of all means can participate in the arts. We also provide sensory-friendly programming and adaptive arts programming for individuals with disabilities.
$1,885,617 spentof which $57,860 as grants$1,516,505 earned by the program53% of program spendingBeck center's professional theater stages thought-provoking, vibrant, and diverse offerings in our 480-seat senney theater and our 98-seat studio theater. Each year, greater than 25,000 patrons attend over 110 performances in our two spaces. For each performance, we set aside a number of $15 smart seats (tm) to make sure our productions are accessible to individuals who might otherwise be unable to attend. In february of each year, we collaborate with the baldwin-wallace musical theater program on a musical in the senney theater. Baldwin-wallace has one of the top musical theater programs in the country.
$1,677,424 spent$738,357 earned by the program47% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,563,041.
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 2021 to 2022, from $7.6M to $9.9M (+30%).
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 8% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 6% · 2021 17% · 2022 8% · 2023 28% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Ellen Z Todia
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $233k → $404k.
13 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
52% 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 BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 24% · 2019 30% · 2020 21% · 2021 24% · 2022 24% · 2023 20% — 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
69% of BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
98% of BECK CENTER 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. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 24 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BECK CENTER 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 BECK CENTER 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 BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Ohio) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,685,991 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($917,222). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $4,685,991 in grants to BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $917,222 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BECK CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 42 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