Ohio · Nonprofit
OHIO ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION
OHIO ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,442,220 to it, the largest being GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL ($1,380,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $220k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $296k
What Ohio Alliance for Arts Education does
Mission
To ensure that the arts are an integral part of the education of every ohioan.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transit arts and arts in the house: modeled after exemplary and award- winning programs dating back to 1991, these programs offer free, year round programing to underserved youth in the city's most challenging neighborhoods through partnerships with the columbus federation of settlements and dozens of other community organizations. These programs engage over 1,000 young people, ages 5 to 21, annually in active learning that helps them develop a sense of personal responsibilty, develop skills in creative, constructive action, and boosts self-esteem, confidence and awareness of community resources.
$306,368 spent88% of program spendingProfessional development and ohio teaching artist roster: the otar and dia programs link professional teaching artists and arts groups to ohio k-12 schools, enabling teachers to integrate arts learning with core subjects, such as english, social studies, science, and math.
$13,451 spent4% of program spendingStatewide arts education services include: arts education resources: individual workshops and keynote addresses by staff, board members, and paid presenters throughout the year around the state to provide resources and tools to aid those individuals and organizations who seek to support art education. Also includes numerous website features and resources. Professional services: professional development training for arts teachers and teaching artists - the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education continues to support professional development programs for ohio's k-12 arts teachers and others in arts assessment literacy. Content is based on 45 performance- based arts assessment and extensive assessment literacy learning materials developed by project partners and available online to all ohio teachers. Oaae also supports professional development in the areas of arts integration, adaptation & inclusion, parent engagement, gifted art student identification, and others. Additional professional services include general consulting services and fiscal agency. Partnerships: working in collaboration with other organizations/partners to carry out specific, often onetime, projects to support the arts…
$28,759 spent8% of program spendingVarious programs
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $348,578.
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 2024 to 2025, from $559k to $375k (−33%).
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: 2018 56% · 2019 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of OHIO ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $60k → $260k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 OHIO ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION’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
OHIO ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
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 OHIO ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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 OHIO ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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
OHIO ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OHIO ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 OHIO ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION: 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 OHIO ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION?
- OHIO ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,442,220 to it, the largest being GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL ($1,380,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OHIO ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,442,220 in grants to OHIO ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OHIO ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION?
- GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $1,380,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OHIO ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION 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 2017–2025), 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