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Canton Museum of Art

Canton Museum of Art (Ohio) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,869,646 to it, the largest being ARTS IN STARK ($1,316,377). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.6M
Revenue FY2025
25
Funders on record
$3.9M
Grants received
$6.6M
Net assets
13/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%

Against its field

Canton Museum of Art receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3.9M to it.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve3.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($4.8M)2018 Revenue 69 ($1.2M) Expenses 107 ($1.5M) Net assets 93 ($4.5M)2019 Revenue 93 ($1.6M) Expenses 107 ($1.5M) Net assets 103 ($5.0M)2020 Revenue 166 ($2.8M) Expenses 106 ($1.5M) Net assets 109 ($5.3M)2021 Revenue 103 ($1.7M) Expenses 126 ($1.7M) Net assets 134 ($6.5M)2022 Revenue 108 ($1.8M) Expenses 112 ($1.5M) Net assets 115 ($5.6M)2023 Revenue 90 ($1.5M) Expenses 126 ($1.7M) Net assets 124 ($6.0M)2024 Revenue 99 ($1.7M) Expenses 134 ($1.8M) Net assets 128 ($6.2M)2025 Revenue 96 ($1.6M) Expenses 121 ($1.7M) Net assets 136 ($6.6M)
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Revenue (96)Expenses (121)Net assets (136)Peer revenue range

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.

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2022
2023
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 7% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

74% of Canton Museum of Art’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$313k
17
$312k
18
$99k
19
$1.3M
20
$7k
21
$285k
22
$213k
23
$176k
24
$42k
25
3.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $389k → $309k.

4 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)32% 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 Canton Museum of Art’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

Canton Museum of Art leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

81% 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 Canton Museum of Art.

34%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 51% · 2019 74% · 2020 73% · 2021 44% · 2022 43% · 2023 46%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

32% of Canton Museum of Art's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 Canton Museum of Art's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

NY
OH
PA
MO
VA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 25 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding Canton Museum of Art receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $245k on record.

Federal$245k
grants $245kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$150k
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$95k

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 Canton Museum of Art

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

58% of spending goes to programs.

Program 58%Management 36%Fundraising 6%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

83%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Canton Museum of Art: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Canton Museum of Art?
Canton Museum of Art (Ohio) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,869,646 to it, the largest being ARTS IN STARK ($1,316,377). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Canton Museum of Art have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $3,869,646 in grants to Canton Museum of Art, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Canton Museum of Art?
ARTS IN STARK is the largest funder on record, with $1,316,377 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Canton Museum of Art 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 25funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing