Ohio · Nonprofit
Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts
Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts (Ohio) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,657,003 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($2,080,288). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 146
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $78M
What Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts does
Mission
With funding, services and advocacy, ArtsWave fuels a more vibrant economy and connected community through the arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Grantmaking: Management of annual community campaign for the arts to provide the resources used to make distributions of financial grants to organizations throughout the Greater Cincinnati Region. These grants help them create a vital arts scene and all the communitywide benefits that come with it, including economic vitality and a greater sense of connectedness for the people of the region. Distributions support a wide variety of arts and culture groups that reflect and benefit the community in all its diversity.
$10,549,687 spentof which $10,241,114 as grants85% of program spendingMarketing the Impact of the Arts: Organization of several days of free samplings of visual and performing arts at multiple venues across the Regional Community. Organization of Community engagement events that connect people through the arts. Development and execution of marketing and public relations strategy that builds broad support for the arts by focusing on the community impact of arts organizations.
$1,667,392 spent$75,106 earned by the program13% of program spendingMeasuring Impact: Collection of data which measures the impact of the arts as local arts organizations create economic vitality, vibrant neighborhoods and a more connected community.
$151,936 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,369,015.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $144M to $122M (−15%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Alecia Kintner
President & CEO
Board chair
Leigh Fox
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 40 funders to 74 funders, grant income rose $774k → $2.7M.
18 of 146 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $12M from 11 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Greater Cincinnati Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts raised.
From the IRS filings of Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 146 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
Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
30% 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 Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 15% · 2019 16% · 2020 12% · 2021 21% · 2022 10% · 2023 18% — 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
67% of Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
70% of Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts's funding base is broadening — from 40 funders to 74 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $310k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$310k
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 Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: 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 Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts?
- Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts (Ohio) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,657,003 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($2,080,288). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts have?
- IRS filings report 146 organizations giving $17,657,003 in grants to Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts, 106 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $2,080,288 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 146 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing