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CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY

CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,199,458 to it, the largest being GEORGE & MARGARET MCLANE FOUNDATION ($323,307). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$434k
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$853k
11/21 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Cincinnati Memorial Hall Society does

Mission

The preservation and restoration of historic cincinnati memorial hall as a place for public gatherings and performances

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided innovative arts, educational programs and signature series events open to the public to support preservation and restoration of historic memorial hall. A virtual concert series called las underground features a diverse lineup of performers and bands of all contemporary music genres and brings programming to cincinnati and northern kentucky neighborhoods during social distancing and beyond.

    $595,596 spent$197,876 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $595,596.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($368k) Expenses 100 ($165k) Net assets 100 ($369k)2018 Revenue 72 ($265k) Expenses 159 ($262k) Net assets 101 ($372k)2019 Revenue 89 ($328k) Expenses 184 ($302k) Net assets 106 ($393k)2020 Revenue 31 ($114k) Expenses 56 ($92k) Net assets 112 ($415k)2021 Revenue 131 ($481k) Expenses 195 ($321k) Net assets 156 ($575k)2022 Revenue 95 ($349k) Expenses 211 ($347k) Net assets 151 ($560k)2023 Revenue 202 ($743k) Expenses 238 ($391k) Net assets 260 ($959k)2024 Revenue 190 ($699k) Expenses 436 ($718k) Net assets 268 ($991k)2025 Revenue 118 ($434k) Expenses 382 ($629k) Net assets 231 ($853k)
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Revenue (118)Expenses (382)Net assets (231)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $614k to $975k (+59%).

$372k
$377k
$397k
$472k
$588k
$614k
$975k
$1.0M
$910k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 27% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

46% of CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$203k
’17
$3k
’18
$25k
’19
$22k
’20
$161k
’21
$1k
’22
$352k
’23
−$19k
’24
−$195k
’25
17
months of
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

Cori Wolff

Executive director, las

Board chair

Maggie Brennan

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed252725294036363232
Joined·+3+9+4+16+3+10+0+3
No longer listed·1110571043
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $91k → $228k.

4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $81k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts). These are real filings, and they are not money CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY raised.

From the IRS filings of CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY’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 MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

27%
largest funder
71%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 48% · 2019 36% · 2020 28% · 2021 25% · 2022 33% · 2023 44% — growing more concentrated.

“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

36% of CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

92% of CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

MA
OH
KY
FL

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

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’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−45% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve17.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

31
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

70%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

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Questions and answers

Who funds CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY?
CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,199,458 to it, the largest being GEORGE & MARGARET MCLANE FOUNDATION ($323,307). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,199,458 in grants to CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY?
GEORGE & MARGARET MCLANE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $323,307 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY 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 21 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