Ohio · Nonprofit
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (Ohio) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,362,849 to it, the largest being ROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,650,012). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 100
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $54M
What Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park does
Mission
We are Cincinnati's national theater - committed to bringing diverse, engaging works of great artistry to our community, and to putting Cincinnati's artistic excellence in the national spotlight.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Live theatrical performances, educational programs and summer classes presented to 147,141 individuals (91,750 through mainstage performances, 26,286 school outreached, 17,081 workshops and residencies, 2,976 Off the Hill, 1,441 classes, 4,543 Summer Camp, 397 Playhouse Perspectives, 91 from Backstage Tours, 1,426 through the Arts and Culture Incubator and 1,150 from Donor Events.)
$10,702,870 spent$7,635,267 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,702,870.
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 2022 to 2023, from $58M to $74M (+27%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 21% · 2022 26% · 2023 18% · 2024 16% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Digi Schueler
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $624k → $1.9M.
12 of 100 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts). These are real filings, and they are not money Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park raised.
From the IRS filings of Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 100 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 Playhouse in the Park has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 29% · 2019 18% · 2020 31% · 2021 18% · 2022 16% · 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
47% of Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park'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
80% of Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 Playhouse in the Park is better cushioned than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
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 Playhouse in the Park
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: 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 Playhouse in the Park?
- Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (Ohio) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,362,849 to it, the largest being ROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,650,012). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park have?
- IRS filings report 100 organizations giving $13,362,849 in grants to Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park?
- ROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,650,012 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park 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 100 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing