Ohio · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING
CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING (Ohio) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,985,506 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($1,133,813). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Center for Arts-Inspired Learning does
Mission
Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School programs and community outreach:each year, cal engages more than 100,000 pre-k to grade 12 youth across northeast ohio through 3,705 programs in over 512 classrooms. By integrating the arts into core subjects like math, literacy, science, and social studies. These programs not only enhance academic achievement but also deepen students' understanding and appreciation of the arts. Through partnerships with professional teaching artists specializing in music, dance, theater, literary arts, visual arts, and more, cal ensures that today's young people develop essential creative and critical thinking skills, preparing them for success in the 21st century. Additionally, cal provides professional development opportunities for artists, educators, and youth development leaders, equipping them with the skills needed to teach effectively in schools, after-school programs, and community venues. This commitment to all creative learners strengthens the cultural and educational landscape of the region.
$924,253 spent$702,107 earned by the program78% of program spendingArtworks: founded in 2005, artworks is a year-round, arts-based college and career readiness program designed for high school students across northeast ohio. Serving a diverse and primarily underserved population, 75-80% of participants live in the city of cleveland, with 80% identifying as african american, hispanic, or asian. Each year, up to 100 teens engage in artworks, developing artistic skills through an apprenticeship model while gaining critical life and career skills, including financial literacy, networking, and collaboration. Since its inception, more than 2,000 teens have successfully completed artworks, emerging as creative, confident, and prepared individuals ready to thrive in their next chapter. In 2023 cal successfully added the youth leadership council further evolving the program to enhance it's impact.
$258,380 spent22% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,182,633.
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 $1.9M to $2.5M (+34%).
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 5% · 2020 9% · 2021 21% · 2022 8% · 2023 6% · 2024 1% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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.
Chief executive
Emma Parker
CEO, top management official
Board chair
Greg Shaw
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $217k → $636k.
5 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
49% 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 CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 40% · 2019 26% · 2020 25% · 2021 17% · 2022 23% · 2023 35% — 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
48% of CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
85% of CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M 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
CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING
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
76% 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 CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING: 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 CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING?
- CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING (Ohio) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,985,506 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($1,133,813). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $3,985,506 in grants to CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,133,813 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING 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 57 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