Ohio · Nonprofit
Cincinnati String Project
Cincinnati String Project (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,500 to it, the largest being SKYLER FOUNDATION ($80,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $153k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $96k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Cincinnati String Project does
Mission
Our mission is to build vibrant communities in Cincinnati through chamber music, empowering young people, their families, and professional musicians, through performance,education and mentoring. The groups activities balance accessible, innovative performances in community settings with teaching underserved urban youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our education program,now in its 10th year, providing free private lessons on violin, viola, cello and bass, along with chamber music instruction to 55 middle and high school students each week, at Title I schools in Norwood and Winton Woods.
$78,950 spentof which $33,000 as grants73% of program spendingOur concert series presented 6 performances to audiences in Pleasant Ridge and Norwood with 150 patrons benefitting.
$23,280 spent22% of program spendingWe presented educational concerts to 157 elementary and middle school students in Norwood and Winton Woods
$6,000 spentof which $3,500 as grants6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $108,230.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Cincinnati String Project’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 String Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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
“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
100% of Cincinnati String Project's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 String Project runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Cincinnati String Project
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
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Cincinnati String Project?
- Cincinnati String Project (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,500 to it, the largest being SKYLER FOUNDATION ($80,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cincinnati String Project have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $95,500 in grants to Cincinnati String Project, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cincinnati String Project?
- SKYLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cincinnati String Project 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 2025–2025), 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