Ohio · Nonprofit
OBERLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
OBERLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $587,212 to it, the largest being THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($508,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $587k
- Net assets
- $0
What Oberlin Center for the Arts does
Mission
Connecting arts and the community.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Arts education: Oberlin Center for the Arts administers in-school (oberlin city schools) and after-school (elyria city schools and sandusky city schools) arts enrichment programming that is free and serving more than 200 elementary school-aged students per year. In partnership with district administrators and faculty, as well as community arts organizations, courses are offered multiple days each week and include the visual arts, theatre/drama, choral, and instrumental music and dance. Participating students also receive a variety of wrap around support including homework assistance and a meal/snack as well as transportation to and from their home-school where needed.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $151k 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 61%. 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 5 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 narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $143k → $10k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 OBERLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS’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
OBERLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 90% · 2019 94% · 2020 78% · 2021 61% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of OBERLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.
Government funding OBERLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 OBERLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 OBERLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: 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 OBERLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- OBERLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $587,212 to it, the largest being THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($508,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OBERLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $587,212 in grants to OBERLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OBERLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $508,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OBERLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 7 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