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MAROON ARTS GROUP

MAROON ARTS GROUP (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,503,151 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($773,086). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$633k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$3.5M
6/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%
01What it does

What Maroon Arts Group does

Mission

Preservation & promotion of cultures of african descent.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Maroon Arts Group (mag) is a collective of creatives who have galvanized to develop and provide a platform for conscious art centered around the preservation and promotion of cultures of african descent.

    $341,499 spent$31,555 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $341,499.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($107k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets 100 ($57k)2019 Revenue 66 ($70k) Expenses 148 ($91k) Net assets 63 ($36k)2020 Revenue 318 ($341k) Expenses 329 ($202k) Net assets 309 ($175k)2021 Revenue 1343 ($1.4M) Expenses 531 ($325k) Net assets 2245 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 576 ($616k) Expenses 739 ($453k) Net assets 2501 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 1814 ($1.9M) Expenses 811 ($497k) Net assets 5058 ($2.9M)2024 Revenue 930 ($995k) Expenses 893 ($547k) Net assets 5858 ($3.3M)2025 Revenue 591 ($633k) Expenses 772 ($473k) Net assets 6155 ($3.5M)
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Revenue (591)Expenses (772)Net assets (6155)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 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $3.6M (+152%).

$57k
$36k
$189k
$1.3M
$1.4M
$3.6M
$4.0M
$3.9M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

93% of MAROON ARTS GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 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.

$46k
’18
−$21k
’19
$139k
’20
$1.1M
’21
$163k
’22
$1.4M
’23
$448k
’24
$160k
’25
1.3
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.

Board chair

Sheri J Neale

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed744666
Joined·+0+0+3+0+0
No longer listed·30100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $28k → $912k.

7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 MAROON ARTS GROUP’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

MAROON ARTS GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

98% 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 MAROON ARTS GROUP.

31%
largest funder
86%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 79% · 2019 62% · 2020 58% · 2021 48% · 2022 33% · 2023 77% — 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

50% of MAROON ARTS GROUP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

67% of MAROON ARTS GROUP'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 $820k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Ohio funders.

MN
NY
OH
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

MAROON ARTS GROUP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding MAROON ARTS GROUP receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.

Federal$55k
grants $55kcontracts $0
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23
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$55k

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 MAROON ARTS GROUP

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

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 28%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds MAROON ARTS GROUP?
MAROON ARTS GROUP (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,503,151 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($773,086). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MAROON ARTS GROUP have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,503,151 in grants to MAROON ARTS GROUP, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MAROON ARTS GROUP?
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $773,086 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MAROON ARTS GROUP 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing