Ohio · Nonprofit
CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (Ohio) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,156,012 to it, the largest being THE OTTO M BUDIG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($817,500). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY is better cushioned than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phdshared funderslocal
- Theater League Incportfolio match
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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: 2021 35% · 2022 33% · 2023 10% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $225k → $739k.
8 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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: $2.5M 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 SHAKESPEARE COMPANY raised.
From the IRS filings of CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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 SHAKESPEARE COMPANY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 22% · 2019 46% · 2020 21% · 2021 20% · 2022 20% · 2023 25% — 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
44% of CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
72% of CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $748k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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 58 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phdshared funderslocalOH · backs 104 organizations that share your funders · funds 109 organizations near you
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ladislas & Vilma Segoe Family Foundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Play on Shakespeareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Raymond C and Anna T Johnson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Spaulding Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 81 organizations that share your funders · funds 87 organizations near you
- Sutphin Family Foundation Icashared fundersPA · backs 110 organizations that share your funders
- Pfau Charitable Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 111 organizations that share your funders
- Hcs Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 80 organizations that share your funders · funds 87 organizations near you
- Trust Estate of George B Rileyshared fundersOH · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
- John Hauck Foundation Fifth Third Bank Nashared fundersOH · backs 28 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 SHAKESPEARE COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: 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 SHAKESPEARE COMPANY?
- CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (Ohio) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,156,012 to it, the largest being THE OTTO M BUDIG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($817,500). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $5,156,012 in grants to CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY?
- THE OTTO M BUDIG FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $817,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 58funders 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