Ohio · Nonprofit
GATEWAY ARTS COUNCIL
GATEWAY ARTS COUNCIL (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,907 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SHELBY COUNTY ($102,570). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $413k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $146k
- Net assets
- $540k
What Gateway Arts Council does
Mission
To promote participation in and appreciation of the arts in the Shelby County area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Performing Arts Series: This series is designed to entertain, enrich, and inspire audiences of all ages through performances by nationally known and local performing artists. Audiences are exposed to various genres, techniques, stories, styles of music, dance and theatre which could not be experienced anywhere else in the region. Gateway Arts Council places the highest priority on providing the community access to cultural and artistic experiences.
$110,698 spentof which $2,000 as grants$83,239 earned by the program53% of program spendingVisual Arts Series: The Visual Arts Program includes the "Spring Fling Fine Arts Show" which gives local artists the opportunity to exhibit and sell their work at a juried event. It annually attracts around 100 artists and displays about 250 pieces of art. The show is comprised of works in the following media: drawing, oil acrylics, photography, ceramics, water color and miscellaneous art. Local art teachers are invited to submit the best works of their students for a concurrent non- juried student event. The show is free, open to the public, and runs for two weeks during which all county third grade teachers are invited.
$2,894 spent$7,263 earned by the program1% of program spendingYouth Education Series: Gateway Arts Council's Youth Education Series promotes, preserves and encourages the creativity, imagination and innovation inherent in all children. The programming offer the literary, theatrical and musical arts, both classical and current, as well as the visual arts. The overall purpose of the series is to strengthen young people's capacity to learn and present them with positive outlets for their energy and opportunities to cultivate their imagination and prepare them to assume their roles as productive and creative members of their communities.
$8,997 spent$16,191 earned by the program4% of program spendingCommunity involvement, children's programming, gallery artists shows
$87,421 spent$46,345 earned by the program42% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $210,010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $266k to $452k (+70%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 4% · 2021 34% · 2022 9% · 2023 8% · 2024 14% · 2025 9%. 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 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $17k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 GATEWAY 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
GATEWAY ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 GATEWAY ARTS COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 65% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 91% — 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
95% of GATEWAY ARTS COUNCIL'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $138k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 GATEWAY 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
82% 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 GATEWAY 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 GATEWAY ARTS COUNCIL?
- GATEWAY ARTS COUNCIL (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,907 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SHELBY COUNTY ($102,570). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GATEWAY ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $145,907 in grants to GATEWAY ARTS COUNCIL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GATEWAY ARTS COUNCIL?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SHELBY COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $102,570 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GATEWAY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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