Ohio · Nonprofit
Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found
Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,500 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($136,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $646k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $139k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found does
Mission
A non-profit art center dedicated to the production and preservation of hand papermaking and the art of the book. The morgan pursues its educational and charitable purposes by conducting workshop, exhibitions and tours
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The morgan art of papermaking conservatory and educational foundation is a non-profit art center dedicated to producing and preserving hand papermaking and the art of the book. The morgan pursues its educational and charitable purposes by conducting workshops, exhibitions, and tours. 15 artists participated in open studio, and we hosted 12 local, regional, national and international artists-in-residence. The morgan received well over 800 hrs of volunteer services from over 50 volunteers. Our gallery presented five free curated exhibitions, which included the national juried show which garnered over 120 local and national entries. We provided nearly 130 artists with the opportunity to exhibit with potential sales of artwork. Total attendance (age range 0 - 80+) at the exhibitions was more than 800 individuals. All exhibitions included an artist talk, free and open to the public, and 10 additional lectures were presented by artists- in-residence, attended by 130 individuals of all ages. All exhibitions furthered the morgans mission to bring the art of handmade paper, print, and book to the public to educate and provide cultural diversity and enrichment to the local community. There…
$443,957 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $443,957.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.8M to $3.3M (−12%).
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: 2017 12% · 2018 10% · 2019 11% · 2020 18% · 2021 15% · 2022 103% · 2023 20% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $26k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found’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
Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 94% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
99% of Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $137k 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.
Against its field
Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.
- 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 Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found: 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 Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found?
- Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,500 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($136,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $138,500 in grants to Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $136,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Morgan Art of Paper Making Conservatory and Educational Found 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 2 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