Skip to content

Ohio · Nonprofit

DOWNTOWN CANTON SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC

DOWNTOWN CANTON SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,676 to it, the largest being STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($57,676). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$306k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$59k
Net assets
$223k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Downtown Canton Special Improvement District Inc does

Mission

The downtown canton special improvement district (sid) provides programming to enhance the economic and cultural development in downtown canton. The sid is dedicated to preserving the aesthetic, architectural and historic character of the downtown area. The organization is funded by special assessments on downtown property owners located within the district.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Programming to enhance downtown canton includes keeping the streets safe and clean, attracting visitors downtown, increased marketing and visibility, partnerships with other organizations in the community, and focusing on developing local businesses. The sid supports the downtown canton partnership, which executes all of the activities to ensure that downtown canton is clean, safe and vibrant.the sid implements the dora program in downtown, providing cups for outdoor refreshments.

    $294,964 spentof which $268,200 as grants$3,200 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $294,964.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($226k) Expenses 100 ($198k) Net assets 100 ($111k)2018 Revenue 105 ($237k) Expenses 105 ($209k) Net assets 125 ($140k)2019 Revenue 106 ($239k) Expenses 107 ($211k) Net assets 151 ($168k)2020 Revenue 256 ($580k) Expenses 148 ($293k) Net assets 408 ($454k)2021 Revenue 7 ($16k) Expenses 90 ($179k) Net assets 261 ($291k)2022 Revenue 128 ($290k) Expenses 150 ($296k) Net assets 256 ($285k)2023 Revenue 127 ($288k) Expenses 183 ($363k) Net assets 189 ($210k)2024 Revenue 127 ($288k) Expenses 140 ($278k) Net assets 197 ($220k)2025 Revenue 135 ($306k) Expenses 152 ($302k) Net assets 201 ($223k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (135)Expenses (152)Net assets (201)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $206k to $456k (+122%).

$134k
$150k
$206k
$456k
$293k
$287k
$212k
$222k
$226k
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 94% · 2024 96% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of DOWNTOWN CANTON SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$28k
’17
$28k
’18
$28k
’19
$286k
’20
−$163k
’21
−$6k
’22
−$75k
’23
$10k
’24
$4k
’25
9.0
months of
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

Todd Herberghs

Executive director

Board chair

John Eslich

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed1313131414141478
Joined·+3+1+3+3+2+0+5+2
No longer listed·312320121
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $33k → $25k.

Funder
'19
'20
'22
total
funders
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dclb Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money DOWNTOWN CANTON SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC raised.

From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN CANTON SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC’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

DOWNTOWN CANTON SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

98% 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 DOWNTOWN CANTON SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC.

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

98% of DOWNTOWN CANTON SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.

OH

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DOWNTOWN CANTON SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC is better cushioned than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve9.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like DOWNTOWN CANTON SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Downtown Canton Partnership Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOWNTOWN CANTON SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds DOWNTOWN CANTON SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC?
DOWNTOWN CANTON SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,676 to it, the largest being STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($57,676). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DOWNTOWN CANTON SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $58,676 in grants to DOWNTOWN CANTON SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN CANTON SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC?
STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $57,676 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOWNTOWN CANTON SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC 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 2 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