Ohio · Nonprofit
CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY
CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,750,312 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($1,131,850). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $506k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $513k
What Cleveland Classical Guitar Society does
Mission
Cleveland Classical Guitar Society's mission: teach, inspire, connect.teach- ccgs creates life-changing experiences for cleveland's kids. Inspire-ccgs presents the world's greatest performers. Connect-ccgs provides meaninful connections between people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cleveland Classical Guitar Society offers a unique opportunity for youth in the city of cleveland to learn how to play guitar from exceptional teachers. The education program is designed to fight inequities and reduce barriers to instruction for kids, providing them with curricula, guitars and more at no cost to the students or their families. In fiscal year 2025, 100 students received in-depth, ongoing instruction in classes and lessons. Students performed as openers for all six international series concerts as well as major area events. Alltogether, students and alumni gave 36 performances for nearly 3,000 audience members.
$358,213 spent$33,900 earned by the program88% of program spendingThe international series presents the world's greatest classical guitarists, with performers now representing 26 countries and 36 cleveland debuts. The performers also work with ccgs students, sharing musical insights and experiences. In fiscal year 2025, the international series plus a special collaborative concert and ccgs's new jazz concerts served 1,744 people through performances, master classes, and outreach for students in ccgs's education program.
$48,593 spent$21,286 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $406,806.
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 2023 to 2024, from $377k to $616k (+64%).
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 10% · 2021 5% · 2022 14% · 2023 17% · 2024 13% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Erik Mann
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $18k → $333k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY’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
CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 80% · 2019 78% · 2020 88% · 2021 78% · 2022 55% · 2023 55% — 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.
How long its funders stay
75% of CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% 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
69% of CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY'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 $543k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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
CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY is better cushioned 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
Government funding CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $135k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$135k
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 CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY?
- CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,750,312 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($1,131,850). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,750,312 in grants to CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,131,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEVELAND CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY 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 13 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