Ohio · Nonprofit
Canton Museum of Art
Canton Museum of Art (Ohio) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,894,646 to it, the largest being ARTS IN STARK ($1,316,377). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $6.6M
What Canton Museum of Art does
Mission
Through creative exhibitions, imaginative programs, and sharing american art and its stores through our collection, the museum is a cultural resource that engages, educates, entertains, and enriches our visitors and community. The Canton Museum of Art (cma) is one of ohio's premier art museums. Cma is recognized for powerful exhibitions focused on american art, its influences and themes that allow everyone to connect with creativity, american stories, and cultural heritage. Cma produces 12 to 14 exhibitions each year, featuring original productions curated by cma to showcase celebrated american artists and diverse regional and national talents, in partnership and collaboration with other museums and private collections; and themed exhibitions that make cma's collections come alive with stories. Cma's acclaimed collection, including names such as edward hopper, john singer sargent, alice schille, and toshiko takaezu, to name a few, focuses on american works on paper, primarily watercolo
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions/collections: as one of northeast ohio's premier museums, the Canton Museum of Art (cma) is recognized for powerful exhibitions and programs that "connect art to life" - centered around american artworks and themes that allow audiences to explore social topics, history, and cultural heritage through art. Cma's art collection is one of the finest collections in ohio, with over 4,000+ pieces including watercolorists such as edward hopper, winslow homer, and andrew wyeth, and ceramic artists such as toshiko takaezu and peter voulkos. Annually cma provides 12-14 original exhibitions to the public, curated by cma staff to showcase celebrated american artists and emerging regional talents, and featured, themed works from the museum's own collection. Cma exhibitions are often in collaboration with programming from other arts and cultural partners across our region, as well as curatorial programs inside the museum, that bring the art and its stories to life.
$562,324 spent$145,981 earned by the program58% of program spendingEducation & outreach: education is integral to the cma experience, fueling creativity in minds of all ages. This includes our free museum to go program to stark county schools, which support students and educators through standards aligned art instruction; in-musuem group tours; and free family days throughout the year that engage the community and underserved audiences. Cma's education station allows a place where vistiors create and learn about art concepts featured in an exhibition. Education station activities change throughout the season and are focused on bringing children and families in greater connection to art and each other. Cma's school of art features class offerings for all ages in oil painting, watercolors, pottery, and more. Cma also works with community and healthcare agencies for using art as therapy for their clients, seeing more than 2,000 participants each year. Cma's education and outreach programs enable people of all ages to use our resources as a place to learn, play, and be inspired by art.
$404,088 spent$223,743 earned by the program42% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $966,412.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.6M to $6.9M (+23%).
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: 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 (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Max Barton Ii
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $389k → $309k.
4 of 26 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 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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.
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; 50% 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 Canton Museum of Art's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Canton Museum of Art receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3.9M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- 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
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Canton Museum of Art?
- Canton Museum of Art (Ohio) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,894,646 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 26 organizations giving $3,894,646 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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