Ohio · Nonprofit
DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL
DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,720 to it, the largest being PUFFIN FOUNDATION WEST LTD ($111,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $153k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Dublin Arts Council does
Mission
Engage the community, cultivate creativity and foster life-long learning through the arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sundays at scioto - in 2024, dac, with the help of class acts (entertainment sourcing agency) and community sponsors organized and produced its annual four-week series of free summer concerts from september 15 through october 6, providing a variety of popular, local music and a variety of food trucks on sunday evenings at nearby scioto park. The concerts draw a diverse crowd throughout the series, ranging from young families to seniors. Dac plans on organizing four more concerts for the series in 2025.
$64,141 spent6% of program spendingArt in public places - the Dublin Arts Council art in public places program's goal is to enhance the quality of life for dublin's residents and to strengthen the city of dublin as a destination for visitors. The collection includes both large and small visual artworks acquired through a variety of models in which Dublin Arts Council (dac) is actively engaged, including major gifting, committee-directed projects, calls for entries and jurying, on-loan programs with an acquisition component, interactive projects, contributions to the city's interior collection and projects which define a community initiative. Dac deepens engagement with the riverboxes, a geocaching inspired public art collection, and creates a number of initiatives to engage the community in creative pursuit. In 2017, the city of dublin contract mckay lodge art conservation to appraise the collection. The value of the collection was 3.8 million at that time. The dublin art in public places program began in 1988 and has grown to more than 70 large and small-scale permanent, temporary, and interactive public art projects today. Dublin Arts Council maintains that public art should inspire an emotional response, provoke…
$496,318 spentof which $9,000 as grants48% of program spendingVisual art series - Dublin Arts Council brings a variety of artwork from local, regional, national, and international artists to the Dublin Arts Council gallery, providing sales and educational components that bring about a deeper understanding and appreciation of visual art. A new exhibition opens approximately every six weeks. Some of the exhibitions in 2024 included emerging student (k-12) exhibition, echoes of memory by three local artists, dwelling: a snail's journey featuring internationally celebrated public art sculptures by cracking art, and accessible expressions ohio featuring ohio artists with disabilities, among others.
$255,252 spent25% of program spendingCommunity arts grants & special projects - Dublin Arts Council's community arts grants demonstrate a continued commitment to support and invest in the arts in dublin. By granting funds to nonprofit arts organizations and supporting arts projects with primary impact in dublin, dac strives to ensure a healthy community where various art forms, arts organizations, and artistic projects can flourish. The 2024 awardees included: columbus music & art academy, columbus modern dance, dublin area art league, dublin community bands, dublin singers, dublin taiko boosters, evolution theatre company, japan-america society of central ohio and spotlight columbus inc. Community arts education - dac offered a variety of artist-led workshops and field trips inspired by exhibitions featured in the Dublin Arts Council gallery. Dac manages six artboxes, vessels akin to little libraries, in highly- trafficked areas of the community, to distribute art supplies and grab- and-go arts activities. In october 2024, dac partnered with the dublin historical society to add a new artbox to their museum, which opened in fall 2024 in downtown dublin.
$208,525 spentof which $42,500 as grants$700 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,024,236.
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 $863k to $1.3M (+53%).
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 81% · 2018 87% · 2019 87% · 2020 90% · 2021 91% · 2022 92% · 2023 88% · 2024 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $66k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL’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
DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 55% · 2021 73% · 2022 77% · 2023 84% — 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.
Where its funders are
DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $220 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.
Against its field
DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
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 DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL: 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 DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL?
- DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,720 to it, the largest being PUFFIN FOUNDATION WEST LTD ($111,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $152,720 in grants to DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL?
- PUFFIN FOUNDATION WEST LTD is the largest funder on record, with $111,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DUBLIN ARTS COUNCIL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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