Ohio · Nonprofit
Kennedy Heights Arts Center
Kennedy Heights Arts Center (Ohio) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,691,428 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,101,325). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Kennedy Heights Arts Center does
Mission
To enhance the life of the surrounding community through arts and cultural experiences that embrace diversity, foster creativity and build community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Kennedy Heights Arts Center (KHAC) provided a wide range of arts education programs for youth and adults on our campus. Through classes, workshops, summer camps, and artist residencies, students learned from and worked alongside professional artists in a variety of artforms such as drawing and painting, ceramics, fiber arts, design, music, dance and creative writing. In addition KHAC partnered with three public elementary schools to fuel creativity and learning through arts integration, fine art field studies, after-school programs, and teacher professional development training. In partnership with Cincinnati Public Schools, KHAC provided an after-school Jazz Academy offering free transportation, instruments, private and ensemble instruction, and performance opportunities for 140 students in grades 4-12. Through the facilitation of Tellus Zine, an online publication of art and writing by teens, for teens; and Teen Artists for Change, students in grades 7-12 were empowered to use their creative skills to make a difference in their community.
$1,074,324 spent$104,664 earned by the program81% of program spendingKennedy Heights Arts Center presented 9 art exhibitions in its Kennedy and Lindner Galleries. Highlights included: Chapter 2: A Subtle Farewell to the Inner Child, Gee Hortons solo exhibition exploring themes of Black identity and belonging; Printed Voices from India, an exhibition curated by SOS Art featuring prints by 97 contemporary printmakers from India; Hearts of Liberation, a group show curated by Asha the Artist delving into the profound concept of Radical Black Love; and KHAC 20th anniversary exhibition, featuring work by 20 artists who have helped shape the arts center. Cincinnati, KHAC presented When Liberation Comes featuring ten commissioned new works by Black artists exploring the promises and realities of freedom in our country.
$145,918 spent$4,077 earned by the program11% of program spendingKennedy Heights Arts Center partnered with Juneteenth Cincinnati on the 4th Annual Voices of Freedom, a free visual and performing arts series celebrating Black arts and culture. In addition, KHAC presented a number of other free community events for area residents, including Play in the Park, a series of weekly summer arts and music events in Kennedy Heights Park; jazz concerts; spoken word open mic; and Winterfest celebration.
$64,013 spent$16,252 earned by the program5% of program spendingKennedy Heights Arts Center supports an artist collective which fosters artistic growth and creative collaboration for local artists who are committed to building community. Activities included: monthly artist salons, a members art exhibition, and participation in community events.
$33,964 spent$34,935 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,318,219.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $1.7M (+23%).
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 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 4% · 2020 30% · 2021 12% · 2022 13% · 2023 27% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of Kennedy Heights Arts Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Ellen Muse
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $49k → $296k.
5 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 Kennedy Heights 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
Kennedy Heights Arts Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 Kennedy Heights Arts Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 22% · 2019 26% · 2020 25% · 2021 26% · 2022 40% · 2023 36% — 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
56% of Kennedy Heights Arts Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
68% of Kennedy Heights 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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Kennedy Heights Arts Center has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Kennedy Heights Arts Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$80k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Kennedy Heights 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.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Kennedy Heights Arts Center: 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 Kennedy Heights Arts Center?
- Kennedy Heights Arts Center (Ohio) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,691,428 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,101,325). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Kennedy Heights Arts Center have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $3,691,428 in grants to Kennedy Heights Arts Center, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kennedy Heights Arts Center?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,101,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kennedy Heights 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 26 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