Ohio · Nonprofit
CINCINNATI MUSIC THEATRE
CINCINNATI MUSIC THEATRE (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,168 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($56,401). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $154k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $98k
What Cincinnati Music Theatre does
Mission
Fine Arts, Non Professional community theater-Cincinnati Music Theatre's mission is to serve as a non-profit civic enterprise dedicated to the encouragement & production of outstanding non-professional musical theater and providing educational musical theater opportunities for people of all ages. Each production provides our volunteers an opportunity to exhibit their talents in performance and production management & each volunteer is part of a production team aimed at providing high quality, value-priced theater for Cincinnati area audiences. Each production reaches over 2,000 people in the Greater Cincinnati area, representing all ages, races, cultural & ethnic backgrounds. CMT strives to bring high quality, nonprofessional theater to audiences at affordable prices so that those who otherwise might not be able to afford the cost of a touring Broadway production may experience the art form in the Aronoff Center, the city's premier theater venue.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Musical Performance: Musical Theatre Programs: Studio Series Production of "The Prom" (Sept. 2023); Provided performance experience and production management opportunities to over 25 volunteers. Provided value priced musical theatre entertainment to over 450 adults (6 performances)
$0 spentMusical Performance: Musical Theatre Programs: Main Stage Series Production of "Children of Eden" (Nov. 2023); Provided performance experience and production management opportunities to over 100 volunteers. Provided value priced musical theatre entertainment to over 2000 adults (7 performances)
$0 spentMusical Performance: Musical Theatre Programs: Studio Series Production of "Stayin Alive" (Feb. 2024); Provided performance experience and production management opportunities to over 15 volunteers. Provided value priced musical theatre entertainment to over 450 adults (6 performances)
$0 spentMusical Performance: Musical Theatre Programs: Main Stage Series Production of "World Goes Round" (May 2024); Provided performance experience and production management opportunities to over 100 volunteers. Provided value priced musical theatre entertainment to over 2500 adults (7 performances)
$0 spentMusical Performance: Musical Theatre Programs: Studio Series Production of "On With the Show" (June 2024); Provided performance experience and production management opportunities to over 25 volunteers. Provided value priced musical theatre entertainment to over 450 adults (6 performances)
$0 spent
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $121k to $185k (+53%).
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.
3% of CINCINNATI MUSIC THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $56k → $64.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CINCINNATI MUSIC THEATRE’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 MUSIC THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
96% 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 MUSIC THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 92% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
96% of CINCINNATI MUSIC THEATRE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 MUSIC THEATRE's revenue grew 38% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CINCINNATI MUSIC THEATRE
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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CINCINNATI MUSIC THEATRE: 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 MUSIC THEATRE?
- CINCINNATI MUSIC THEATRE (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,168 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($56,401). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CINCINNATI MUSIC THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $59,168 in grants to CINCINNATI MUSIC THEATRE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CINCINNATI MUSIC THEATRE?
- THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $56,401 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CINCINNATI MUSIC THEATRE 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 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