Ohio · Nonprofit
CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,090,862 to it, the largest being CAROL ANN AND RALPH V HAILE JR FOUNDATION ($370,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $30M
What Cincinnati Musical Festival Association does
Mission
We exist to engage, energize and connect our community with the highest quality performances of great choral music. Our vision is to be the most exciting force in the choral world and to be a leader and catalyst in the production, presentation and promotion of choral activities in our region and around the globe. We believe in fostering choral music of the highest artistic standards; preserving the history, enhancing the present and embracing the future of choral music; cultivating diverse audiences, choirs and singers who are passionate about choral music; and operating in a financially sound manner.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The may festival provided four concerts with paid attendance of 5,026 patrons. The may festival chorus also serves as the official chorus of the cincinnati symphony and pops orchestra performing with the orchestra for numerous concerts throughout cso/pops september through may season.
$2,757,045 spent$412,977 earned by the program98% of program spendingThis mobile early learning program is designed to awaken and develop each child's sense of self and connection to the world around them through song. May festival minis is an inclusive and accessible program that serves preschool children of all abilities through free developmentally appropriate, music-centric lessons provided in their preschool environments. Minis served over 3,000 preschoolers in the cincinnati region through partnerships with cincinnati children's hospital, cincinnati public libraries, and headstart preschool.
$64,198 spent$150 earned by the program2% of program spendingThe may festival chamber chorus, an auditioned subset of the complete may festival chorus, appears periodically in free, hour-long concerts outside of the downtown cincinnati area to reach new listeners in new neighborhoods. This audience development initiative often features members of the may festival youth chorus in performance and is presented in partnership with community churches. These concerts took place in cincinnati neighborhoods montgomery (st. Barnabas episcopal church) and westwood (first presbyterian church), as well as in downton dayton, oh (first baptist church). Each concert served approximately 200 audience members.
$3,182 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,824,425.
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 2020 to 2021, from $24M to $32M (+33%).
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 3% · 2021 28% · 2022 2% · 2023 10% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Christy Horan
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $64k → $133k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $1.5M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts). These are real filings, and they are not money CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION’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 MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 52% · 2019 43% · 2020 64% · 2021 43% · 2022 46% · 2023 60% — 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
25% of CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
96% of CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL 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. $134k 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.
Against its field
CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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
- Cincinnati Boychoir Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION?
- CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,090,862 to it, the largest being CAROL ANN AND RALPH V HAILE JR FOUNDATION ($370,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,090,862 in grants to CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION?
- CAROL ANN AND RALPH V HAILE JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $370,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL 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.
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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 19 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