Ohio · Nonprofit
Clifton Cultural Arts Center
Clifton Cultural Arts Center (Ohio) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,902,194 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($919,665). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Clifton Cultural Arts Center does
Mission
To strengthen the critical link between participation in cultural arts and successful, healthy children, adults and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Classes: In 2025, CCAC provided more than 150 in-person and virtual arts and cultural educational opportunities, including free STEM programs at local schools, and free and reduced-cost classes in five disciplines : Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Creative Writing, Culture + Languages and Wellness. These opportunities served more than 10,700 people, including 4,300 children. CCAC also offers a wide variety of arts-related camps with scholarships available for those in need.
$284,503 spent$293,210 earned by the program41% of program spendingEvents: There are multiple events held at CCAC and the surrounding area designed to engage adults and children alike. Wednesdays in the Woods free concert series is our signature musical event, but we also hold free concerts on the CCAC rooftop and elsewhere in the Uptown area. In addition, CCAC hosts the neighborhood festival, CliftonFest, as well as Sunset Salons, Second Sunday Showtime and Madcap Puppets.
$313,254 spent$24,627 earned by the program45% of program spendingExhibits: CCAC exhibited works of art from both emerging and established artists, as well as amateur community artists across all fine arts disciplines. Our signature exhibit is the juried Golden Ticket Art Exhibit, which displayed over 85 pieces of fine art by artists within a 50 mile radius.
$95,150 spent$18,714 earned by the program14% of program spendingRental of the facility to the community for events and rehearsals.
$0 spent$77,539 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $692,907.
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 2021 to 2022, from $5.4M to $8.7M (+60%).
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 4% · 2018 120% · 2019 6% · 2020 12% · 2021 11% · 2022 17% · 2023 18% · 2024 7% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of Clifton Cultural Arts Center’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. 3 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.
Chief executive
Leslie Mooney
Executive Director (left 7/25)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $47k → $717k.
8 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Clifton Cultural Arts Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
Clifton Cultural Arts Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
49% 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 Clifton Cultural Arts Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 78% · 2019 60% · 2020 42% · 2021 51% · 2022 27% · 2023 18% — 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
59% of Clifton Cultural Arts Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
68% of Clifton Cultural Arts Center's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Clifton Cultural Arts Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Clifton Cultural Arts Center
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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
- CCAC Holding Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Clifton Cultural Arts Center: 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 Clifton Cultural Arts Center?
- Clifton Cultural Arts Center (Ohio) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,902,194 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($919,665). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Clifton Cultural Arts Center have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $3,902,194 in grants to Clifton Cultural Arts Center, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Clifton Cultural Arts Center?
- THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $919,665 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Clifton Cultural Arts Center 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 48 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