Ohio · Nonprofit
Central Ohio Youth Ballet
Central Ohio Youth Ballet (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,050 to it, the largest being LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ($163,962). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $186k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $164k
- Net assets
- $-72660
What Central Ohio Youth Ballet does
Mission
The Central Ohio Youth Ballet was created to provide quality dance performances and instruction in ballet and modern dance. We cast our performers from auditions that are open to all dancers in the area whether or not they study with us. By staging quality ballet and modern dance performances we have drawn a steady yearly audience of more than 3500 for over 25 years. Thus we bring ballet to our community. Additionally we support dancers who might not be able to participate in this art form with scholarship support and with ticket support though other nonprofit partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In our 2024-2025 fiscal year we offered 3 productions a free 1-hour performance as part of the Mt Vernon Arts Festival in August The Nutcracker in 2 locations cast of 65 and a mixed program in May cast of 42. Our free performance as a key participant in the Mt Vernon Arts Festival was attended by nearly 200 people and in conjunction with this effort we offered a free master class for 28 school-aged children on the stage. Four of them chose to join us for additional experience. The combined audience was roughly 3500. Our school offers over 30 classes per week in ballet modern dance and conditioning for dancers at all levels. We support any dancer who wishes to learn this art with quality instruction supportive cross training and tuition support if the student has sufficient commitment but lacks the funds. This year we provided scholarships to about 12% of our dancers. We also offered two weeks of free classes to the community and 15 community members took advantage of this. Our home town of Newark is economically depressed and we make a concerted effort to keep the expenses of participating in our program as low as possible. Unlike many schools we provide costumes to our performers…
$220,527 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $220,527.
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 2017 to 2018, from $36k to $405k (+1016%).
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.
16% of Central Ohio Youth Ballet’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $131k → $10k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Central Ohio Youth Ballet’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
Central Ohio Youth Ballet leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Central Ohio Youth Ballet.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Central Ohio Youth Ballet's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $164k 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
Central Ohio Youth Ballet has grown faster than half 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 Central Ohio Youth Ballet
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.
Public support
91%
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 Central Ohio Youth Ballet: 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 Central Ohio Youth Ballet?
- Central Ohio Youth Ballet (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,050 to it, the largest being LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ($163,962). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Central Ohio Youth Ballet have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $164,050 in grants to Central Ohio Youth Ballet, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Central Ohio Youth Ballet?
- LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $163,962 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Central Ohio Youth Ballet 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 2 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