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FIRELANDS ASSN FOR THE VISUAL ARTS
FIRELANDS ASSN FOR THE VISUAL ARTS (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $879,929 to it, the largest being THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($455,569). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $283k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $880k
- Net assets
- $130k
What Firelands Assn for the Visual Arts does
Mission
Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA) is a community inspired, enriched, and engaged through lifelong experiences with arts. FAVA's mission is to foster creativity and community by exhibiting contemporary visual art, educating people of all ages, and strengthening cultural awareness throughout the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
FAVA's education outreach program offers a core group of art classes and workshops for children and adults at its main location in the New Union Center for the Arts in downtown Oberlin, OH. In addition, FAVA presents community based art programming at senior centers. FAVA partners with organizations such as Main Street Oberlin, the Oberlin Public Library, and Leadership Lorain County. FAVA's education staff also provides technical and programming assistance to organizations and schools.
$209,267 spent$53,006 earned by the program72% of program spendingFAVA's gallery and exhibition program at the New Union Center for the Arts emphasizes contemporary Ohio artists in combination with efforts to balance traditional approaches to visual art with those that might push the envelope for a community based exhibition space. FAVA presents students works, local artists, and larger national/international juried and invitationals. FAVA's gallery staff provides technical assistance to organizations and schools.
$81,293 spent$5,826 earned by the program28% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $290,560.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $160k to $223k (+40%).
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 4% · 2021 4% · 2022 10% · 2023 5% · 2024 5% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Kathleen Jackson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $33k → $157k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 FIRELANDS ASSN FOR THE VISUAL ARTS’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
FIRELANDS ASSN FOR THE VISUAL ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 63% · 2019 73% · 2020 57% · 2021 83% · 2022 40% · 2023 57% — 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.
Where its funders are
76% of FIRELANDS ASSN FOR THE VISUAL ARTS's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k 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.
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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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 FIRELANDS ASSN FOR THE VISUAL ARTS: 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 FIRELANDS ASSN FOR THE VISUAL ARTS?
- FIRELANDS ASSN FOR THE VISUAL ARTS (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $879,929 to it, the largest being THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($455,569). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRELANDS ASSN FOR THE VISUAL ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $879,929 in grants to FIRELANDS ASSN FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRELANDS ASSN FOR THE VISUAL ARTS?
- THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $455,569 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRELANDS ASSN FOR THE VISUAL ARTS 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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