Ohio · Nonprofit
CINCINNATI FUSION ENSEMBLE INC
CINCINNATI FUSION ENSEMBLE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,350 to it, the largest being Greenacres Foundation Inc ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $190k
- Net assets
- $-6541
What Cincinnati Fusion Ensemble Inc does
Mission
The Cincinnati Fusion Ensemble is a professional performing ensemble with a threefold mission: to offer world-class performances, to foster young musicians through high-level music education, and to engage the community. (See Schedule O for further description)
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Cincinnati Fusion Ensemble Institute of Music(see Schedule O for description)
$51,046 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $51,046.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $6k to $14k (+125%).
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.
100% of CINCINNATI FUSION ENSEMBLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $60k → $14k.
From the IRS filings of CINCINNATI FUSION ENSEMBLE INC’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
CINCINNATI FUSION ENSEMBLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 80% · 2022 94% · 2023 71% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CINCINNATI FUSION ENSEMBLE INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CINCINNATI FUSION ENSEMBLE INC has grown faster than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CINCINNATI FUSION ENSEMBLE INC
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
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CINCINNATI FUSION ENSEMBLE INC?
- CINCINNATI FUSION ENSEMBLE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,350 to it, the largest being Greenacres Foundation Inc ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CINCINNATI FUSION ENSEMBLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $190,350 in grants to CINCINNATI FUSION ENSEMBLE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CINCINNATI FUSION ENSEMBLE INC?
- Greenacres Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CINCINNATI FUSION ENSEMBLE INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 3 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