Ohio · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER
FRIENDS OF THE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,208 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($7,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $148k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $335k
What Friends of the Cultural Arts Center does
Mission
To support the priscilla r. Tyson cultural arts center (cac) in columbus, ohio. The center benefits thousands of participants of all backgrounds each year to participate in and benefit from arts programming, ensuring inclusivity and accessibillity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Procure art studio supplies, artists' models, art gallery supplies, provisions for gallery openings, gift shop supplies, workshop expenses, talent for conversations & coffee talks and provisions for columbus arts festival volunteers
$100,358 spent74% of program spendingArtists consignments for gallery space and gift shops which are open to the public and provide exhibit opportunities to hundreds of participants each year.
$16,808 spent12% of program spendingAward professional development grants to program instructors to enhance their artistic and teaching skills. This benefits dozens of instructors and indirectly benefits the thousands of program participants
$17,554 spentof which $17,554 as grants13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $134,720.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $305k to $336k (+10%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5 → $9k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 FRIENDS OF THE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER’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
FRIENDS OF THE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
67% 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 FRIENDS OF THE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 88% — 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
67% of FRIENDS OF THE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER?
- FRIENDS OF THE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,208 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($7,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $11,208 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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