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LEARNING THROUGH ART

LEARNING THROUGH ART (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,324,055 to it, the largest being CAROL ANN AND RALPH V HAILE JR FOUNDATION ($415,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$194k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$28k
9/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%
01What it does

What Learning Through Art does

Mission

Learning Through Art, Inc. is dedicated to providing quality performing arts programs in support of arts integrated education, literacy, community development and engagement encouraging multi-cultural awareness and understanding.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Books Alive for Kids!- Performing arts literacy program targeting pre-K through third grade students making books come alive through sight, sound and touch. The program's goal to engage, empower and educate, encourages students to read by experiencing hands-on crafts, music, theater performances on a myriad of topics and themes pertinent to preparing children for success by reading in our global community.

    $75,926 spent$93,983 earned by the program
    81% of program spending
  2. Summer Concert Series designed to build bridges, breakdown barriers bringing neighbors and neighborhoods together to celebrate our mosaic beauty throughout the region and world.

    $1,079 spent
    1% of program spending
  3. Community: Provided lead agency programming for Cincinnati Public Schools.

    $16,928 spent
    18% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $93,933.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($245k) Expenses 100 ($234k) Net assets -532 ($-12494)2018 Revenue 125 ($307k) Expenses 126 ($295k) Net assets -26 ($-606)2019 Revenue 108 ($264k) Expenses 112 ($261k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2020 Revenue 128 ($314k) Expenses 113 ($264k) Net assets 2241 ($53k)2021 Revenue 212 ($520k) Expenses 217 ($508k) Net assets 2740 ($64k)2022 Revenue 205 ($503k) Expenses 210 ($490k) Net assets 2843 ($67k)2023 Revenue 179 ($439k) Expenses 170 ($398k) Net assets 4569 ($107k)2024 Revenue 79 ($194k) Expenses 114 ($267k) Net assets 1200 ($28k)
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Revenue (79)Expenses (114)Net assets (1200)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $41k to $119k (+188%).

$49k
$69k
$41k
$119k
$139k
$125k
$144k
$79k
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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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 2% · 2023 3% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of LEARNING THROUGH ART’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (73% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,446 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’17
$12k
’18
$3k
’19
$50k
’20
$12k
’21
$12k
’22
$41k
’23
−$73k
’24
2.3
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

Kathy Wade-Jenkins

CEO

Board chair

Kathryne Gardette

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed108889977
Joined·+1+0+0+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·3000020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $102k → $219k.

3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 LEARNING THROUGH ART’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

LEARNING THROUGH ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

53% 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 LEARNING THROUGH ART.

31%
largest funder
82%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 77% · 2019 51% · 2020 53% · 2021 35% · 2022 45% · 2023 30% — 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.

How long its funders stay

30% of LEARNING THROUGH ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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

95% of LEARNING THROUGH ART's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH
PA
KY

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $401k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Against its field

LEARNING THROUGH ART's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−38% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,356 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like LEARNING THROUGH ART

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In Ohio

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

35% of spending goes to programs.

Program 35%Management 58%Fundraising 7%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

57%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEARNING THROUGH ART?
LEARNING THROUGH ART (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,324,055 to it, the largest being CAROL ANN AND RALPH V HAILE JR FOUNDATION ($415,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEARNING THROUGH ART have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,324,055 in grants to LEARNING THROUGH ART, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEARNING THROUGH ART?
CAROL ANN AND RALPH V HAILE JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $415,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEARNING THROUGH ART 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 15 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