Ohio · Nonprofit
FRANKLINTON ARTS DISTRICT
FRANKLINTON ARTS DISTRICT (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $897,755 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $167k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $898k
- Net assets
- $138k
What Franklinton Arts District does
Mission
Furthering the development of the arts and artists in the community of franklinton through awareness and education, and to provide leadership related to expanding the acceptance, appreciation, support and impact of the arts in franklinton.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Urban scrawl: community arts event with franklinton and columbus artists showcasing their talents. Live artmaking with artists creating work on mobile murals, plus featured artists working on permanent murals. Fifty plus artists participate in the event. Engagement with the community, local organizations and neighborhood partners.
$46,803 spentof which $3,000 as grants46% of program spendingArt for franklinton: an exciting art auction fundraiser featuring extraordinary artwork created at the annual scrawl event in franklinton. The event brings art collectors, community leaders, artists, and people from all walks of life together to bid on the jury-selected pieces. This important event has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Franklinton Arts District and continues to have a remarkable impact on franklinton and countless creatives in our community. Funds raised are shared through our bellows award program, community outreach, placemaking, and developing the future of arts in the neighborhood. All proceeds from this event go toward funding the arts, arts education, arts programming, and community events in franklinton.
$16,867 spent16% of program spendingRoundups: a new piloted program with land-grant brewing that invested round up dollars from their customers' tabs and created a new fund for music and public art in franklinton.
$13,931 spent14% of program spendingArtsway: summer tech youth mural program is a 10- session program which pairs young artists with professional muralists to learn the basics of creating a mural and ends with them placing one in their neighborhood. Additionally, the last two sessions provide augmented reality instruction and activation. Students create an animation that brings the mural to life on their phones. Franklinton fridays: Franklinton Arts District's monthly art crawl and music series to experience what the creative community has to offer. Residents and guests experience the sights and sounds of franklinton's galleries, studios, makerspaces, and venues.
$25,214 spent25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $102,815.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $108k to $143k (+32%).
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: 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FRANKLINTON ARTS DISTRICT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $215 → $778k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 FRANKLINTON ARTS DISTRICT’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
FRANKLINTON ARTS DISTRICT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
33% 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 FRANKLINTON ARTS DISTRICT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 55% · 2023 64% — 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
50% of FRANKLINTON ARTS DISTRICT's funders are still giving 1 year 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
FRANKLINTON ARTS DISTRICT draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $221k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
FRANKLINTON ARTS DISTRICT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FRANKLINTON ARTS DISTRICT
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.
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRANKLINTON ARTS DISTRICT?
- FRANKLINTON ARTS DISTRICT (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $897,755 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRANKLINTON ARTS DISTRICT have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $897,755 in grants to FRANKLINTON ARTS DISTRICT, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRANKLINTON ARTS DISTRICT?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRANKLINTON ARTS DISTRICT 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 9 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