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Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History
Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,750 to it, the largest being South Arts Inc ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $52k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $226k
- Net assets
- $0
What Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History does
Mission
Marion Voices Folklife + Oral History -- Marion Countys countywide folklife cultural arts & heritage organization -- existed to collaborate with our North-Central Ohio community to 1 amplify diverse folklife traditions & cultural arts heritages across Marion County in collaboration with culture-keepers & tradition bearers; 2 build expanded livelihoods for Marion County folk traditional & cultural artists & memory-keepers through arts-based economic development opportunities paid performance teaching presentation & cultural documentation opportunities & arts-&-culture-based job creation; & 3 collaboratively curate folklife & cultural arts programming to build critical reparative pride-in-place in Marion County ... towards more just abundant futures for all. FY2025 marked Marion Voices final operational year as future funding sources were decimated due to the DOGE cancellation of NEA grants to a major multi-year program line plus unrelated changes in state funding.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Marion County North-Central Ohio Cultural Heritage Assets Mapping Project CHAMP & Countywide Arts Survey -- Marion Voices CHAMP project was Marion Voices major program service for FY2025. Unfortunately the project was also impacted by the cancellation of a major two-year National Endowment for the Arts Grant due to DOGE cuts in May 2025 and had to be halted after May 2026 with remaining funds from other funding partners returned back. See "grants." Following on FY2024s Marion County Cultural Heritage Mapping Project -- the first half of the project -- FY2025s activities included the planning and partial execution of a planned 12-county folklife outreach and networking tour. Funds were suspended in the midst of fieldwork launch; a 12-county folklife survey was completed but individual county mapping sessions were not completed and remaining funds were returned to the funder the America-250 Ohio Commission via fiscal sponsor the Ohio History Connection and under advisory from administrators Ohio Humanities. Payments were also paid out to some project contractors in FY2025 for work begun in FY2024. NOTE: FY2025 program expenses grants may appear unbalanced due to cross-fiscal year…
$91,066 spentof which $9,325 as grants76% of program spendingMarion Voices in the Schools MVITS Folklife + Cultural Arts Residencies & Associated Folk Arts Educational Outreach. Marion Voices MVITS program continued in its fourth year in FY2025. In FY2025 we completed 23-24 school year programs in two school districts. While direct grants to our partner school supported artists pay Marion Voices again provided funding for curriculum development program coordination artist training & supplies & stipends for a final festival at one school site. In FY2025 MVITS ran residencies with Marion St. Mary School & Grant Middle School & supported 15+ community teaching artists working in the schools: including several first-time teaching artists. NOTE: FY2025 program expenses grants may appear unbalanced due to cross-fiscal year begin & end of project grant disbursement schedule for some major program grants.
$15,327 spent13% of program spendingMarion Black Joy Summerfest 2025 -- a continuation of a beloved annual festival founded in 2021 by a team of Marion Voices community co-curators which has become Marions annual celebration of Black summertime traditions held at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park on Marions West Side on the Saturday following Juneteenth -- returned bigger & better than ever for its fifth season in 2025. MBJSF 2025 opened with a Ohio Historical Marker dedication to the new Shantytown West Side Black History Marker researched & erected by Marion Voices at MLK Park. The ensuing festival featured Victor Floyd as headliner; narrative stages a line-dancing workshop hands-on kids arts workshops a vendor marketplace & a seven-panel exhibit on the making of MLK Parks new Ohio Historical Marker with a month-long promotional lead-up including yard signs flyers banners & postcards. The 5-hour festival drew over 100 people and featured speeches from the mayor the Ohio History Connection County Commissioners & other dignitaries. NOTE: FY2025 program expenses grants may appear unbalanced due to cross-fiscal year begin & end of project grant disbursement schedule for some major program grants.
$14,125 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $120,518.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $93k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Ms Linda Sims
President of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $62k → $27k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History’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
Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
100% 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 Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 68% · 2023 56% — 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
64% of Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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In Ohio
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History: 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 Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History?
- Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,750 to it, the largest being South Arts Inc ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $225,750 in grants to Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History?
- South Arts Inc is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), 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