Ohio · Nonprofit
FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $415,277 to it, the largest being THE RICHARD J FITTON FAMILY FDN ($190,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $415k
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Fitton Center for Creative Arts does
Mission
To build community excellence through the arts and culture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Fitton Center for Creative Arts is a community arts center featuring a variety of programs, including visual and performing arts classes, exhibitions, entertainment, and theatre productions for all ages.
$860,133 spent$185,590 earned by the program75% of program spendingEducation: the arts have been proven excellent tools for revitalizing communities, aiding in the abatement of social problems, providing benefits in the area of health and wellness, and helping students to be more successful in school. The arts also have an economic impact nationally and regionally.
$269,156 spent$114,652 earned by the program24% of program spendingOutreach: the fitton center's community outreach program makes arts education accessible for thousands of individuals and families across greater hamilton and the butler county region each year. This program is at the core of the fitton center's community-focused mission and allows us to bring quality experiences in the arts to people of all ages, ability levels, and backgrounds. Some community partners include the ymca , booker t. Washington community center, boys & girls club of hamilton and several early learning centers throughout greater hamilton.
$15,811 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,145,100.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.7M to $4.3M (+14%).
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 9% · 2018 9% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 12% · 2022 21% · 2023 5% · 2024 4% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS’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. 4 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.
Board chair
Woody Fitton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $24k → $56k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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: $3.5M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hamilton Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS raised.
From the IRS filings of FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE 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
FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 100% · 2019 73% · 2020 53% · 2021 56% · 2022 50% · 2023 54% — 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.
How long its funders stay
18% of FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE 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 FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS?
- FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $415,277 to it, the largest being THE RICHARD J FITTON FAMILY FDN ($190,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $415,277 in grants to FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS?
- THE RICHARD J FITTON FAMILY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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