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Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts

Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts (Ohio) receives grants from 143 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,260,850 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($2,080,288). 104 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$15M
Revenue FY2024
143
Funders on record
$16M
Grants received
$78M
Net assets
104/143 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%

Against its field

Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts's funding base is broadening — from 40 funders to 74 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($15M) Expenses 100 ($15M) Net assets 100 ($64M)2021 Revenue 125 ($18M) Expenses 103 ($15M) Net assets 120 ($77M)2022 Revenue 235 ($34M) Expenses 167 ($24M) Net assets 106 ($68M)2023 Revenue 84 ($12M) Expenses 104 ($15M) Net assets 109 ($70M)2024 Revenue 102 ($15M) Expenses 101 ($15M) Net assets 121 ($78M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (102)Expenses (101)Net assets (121)Peer revenue range

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 816 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$81k
20
$3.1M
21
$9.7M
22
$2.9M
23
$85k
24
3.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 40 funders to 74 funders, grant income rose $774k → $2.7M.

17 of 143 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)31% 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 143 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 13% 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

33% 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.

13%
largest funder
27%
top three
~21
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 15% · 2019 16% · 2020 10% · 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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

67% of Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
KY
VA
AZ
NC
SC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 143 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

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.

Federal$310k
grants $310kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • 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

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 10%Fundraising 12%

Governance

47
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

OH
KY

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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts?
Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts (Ohio) receives grants from 143 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,260,850 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($2,080,288). 104 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts have?
IRS filings report 143 organizations giving $16,260,850 in grants to Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts, 104 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 143funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing