Ohio · Nonprofit
LAND STUDIO INC
LAND STUDIO INC (Ohio) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,165,319 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($5,470,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Land Studio Inc does
Mission
The mission of l.a.n.d. Studio, inc. Is to create places and connect people through public art, sustainable building and design, collaborative planning, and dynamic programming.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Beautification, parks, sustainable design and art programs provide a diverse agenda: 1) to enhance the livability of downtown and leverage the investment in and implementation of public space projects through design, fundraising, building and programming; 2) to provide neighborhood efforts to use urban parks and related programs as community development tools; 3) to collaborate with major community foundations and institutions to assess public space utilization; 4) to harness sustainable design and development expertise that exists within many of cleveland's design related nonprofits and find a mechanism to marry these resources in development efforts taking place throughout the region; 5) to improve public spaces through identifying public art opportunities and bringing expertise to the selection of artists and the implementation of public art projects; and 6) beautification programs are provided to improve, develop and conserve urban green space to make cleveland a better place to live, work and visit.
$2,579,796 spent$1,270,217 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,579,796.
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 $9.3M to $14M (+55%).
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: 2021 4% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Greg Peckham
Executive director
Board chair
Colette Jones
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 25 funders, grant income fell $1.8M → $816k.
9 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 LAND STUDIO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 funders by total. 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
LAND STUDIO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
25% 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 LAND STUDIO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 42% · 2019 43% · 2020 28% · 2021 86% · 2022 34% · 2023 52% — 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
60% of LAND STUDIO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
93% of LAND STUDIO INC's grant income 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 7 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.
Government funding LAND STUDIO INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $410k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$380k
- Department of Defense$30k
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 LAND STUDIO INC
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
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 LAND STUDIO INC: 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 LAND STUDIO INC?
- LAND STUDIO INC (Ohio) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,165,319 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($5,470,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAND STUDIO INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $12,165,319 in grants to LAND STUDIO INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAND STUDIO INC?
- THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,470,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAND STUDIO INC 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 48 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