Ohio · Nonprofit
CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,767,118 to it, the largest being JOHN J & MARY R SCHIFF FOUNDATION ($24,472,500). 105 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION is better cushioned than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
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.
- Spaulding Foundationshared funders
- Dudley Taft Charitable Foundation Co Fifthportfolio match
- Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trustshared funders
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.
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: 2023 7% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 44 funders to 77 funders, grant income fell $19M → $3.1M.
10 of 161 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $17M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Greater Cincinnati Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 161 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 MUSEUM ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 60%; 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: 2017 96% · 2018 56% · 2019 45% · 2020 29% · 2021 18% · 2022 22% · 2023 13% — 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
61% of CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
86% of CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
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 161 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Spaulding Foundationshared fundersOH · backs 78 organizations that share your funders
- Dudley Taft Charitable Foundation Co Fifthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trustshared fundersPA · backs 98 organizations that share your funders
- Trust Estate of George B Rileyshared fundersOH · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- Trihealth Incshared funderslocalOH · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 50 organizations near you
- Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005shared fundersKY · backs 126 organizations that share your funders
- Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Incshared fundersOH · backs 76 organizations that share your funders
- Children's Hospital Medical Centershared funderslocalOH · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · funds 90 organizations near you
- William P Anderson Foundation Central Trustshared fundersMA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- United Way of Greater Cincinnatishared funderslocalOH · backs 114 organizations that share your funders · funds 379 organizations near you
- Ed & Joann Hubert Family Foundation Incshared fundersOH · backs 60 organizations that share your funders
- George & Margaret McLane Foundationshared fundersOH · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
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 MUSEUM ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $846k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$500k
- National Endowment for the Arts$196k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$150k
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 MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Art Museum Support Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: 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.
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 MUSEUM ASSOCIATION?
- CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,767,118 to it, the largest being JOHN J & MARY R SCHIFF FOUNDATION ($24,472,500). 105 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 161 organizations giving $48,767,118 in grants to CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION, 105 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION?
- JOHN J & MARY R SCHIFF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $24,472,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 161funders 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