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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
36/48 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 82%
01What it does

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

  1. 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 program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,579,796.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($3.9M) Net assets 100 ($2.6M)2018 Revenue 187 ($4.0M) Expenses 80 ($3.1M) Net assets 134 ($3.5M)2019 Revenue 145 ($3.1M) Expenses 91 ($3.6M) Net assets 117 ($3.1M)2020 Revenue 122 ($2.6M) Expenses 67 ($2.6M) Net assets 118 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 317 ($6.8M) Expenses 70 ($2.7M) Net assets 272 ($7.2M)2022 Revenue 248 ($5.3M) Expenses 134 ($5.2M) Net assets 277 ($7.3M)2023 Revenue 234 ($5.0M) Expenses 95 ($3.7M) Net assets 326 ($8.6M)2024 Revenue 421 ($9.1M) Expenses 99 ($3.8M) Net assets 524 ($14M)
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Revenue (421)Expenses (99)Net assets (524)

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%).

$3.5M
$3.9M
$3.4M
$3.8M
$8.0M
$8.1M
$9.3M
$14M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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.

−$1.8M
’17
$893k
’18
−$446k
’19
$23k
’20
$4.1M
’21
$110k
’22
$1.3M
’23
$5.2M
’24
27
months of
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.

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Listed3533343333323328
Joined·+4+5+5+4+5+7+1
No longer listed·6464666
03Who funds it

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.

45%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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.

MN
OH
PA
CA
VA
DE
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Ohio out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

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.

Federal$410k
grants $380kcontracts $30k
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Top agencies
  • 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 12%Fundraising 12%

Governance

25
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

OH

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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