Skip to content
Plinth
← Funding

Ohio · Nonprofit

Pianofest Inc

Pianofest Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $615,919 to it, the largest being GIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$391k
Revenue FY2025
18
Funders on record
$616k
Grants received
$503k
Net assets
11/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($329k) Expenses 100 ($297k) Net assets 100 ($400k)2018 Revenue 106 ($349k) Expenses 109 ($324k) Net assets 107 ($429k)2019 Revenue 108 ($357k) Expenses 115 ($341k) Net assets 111 ($445k)2020 Revenue 121 ($400k) Expenses 69 ($204k) Net assets 160 ($640k)2021 Revenue 95 ($313k) Expenses 96 ($285k) Net assets 167 ($668k)2022 Revenue 95 ($313k) Expenses 138 ($411k) Net assets 142 ($570k)2023 Revenue 133 ($438k) Expenses 138 ($412k) Net assets 149 ($596k)2024 Revenue 111 ($366k) Expenses 134 ($398k) Net assets 141 ($564k)2025 Revenue 119 ($391k) Expenses 152 ($452k) Net assets 126 ($503k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (119)Expenses (152)Net assets (126)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$32k
17
$25k
18
$16k
19
$196k
20
$28k
21
$98k
22
$26k
23
$32k
24
$61k
25
3.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $50k → $67k.

7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)32% 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 Pianofest Inc’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

Pianofest Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

73% 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 Pianofest Inc.

41%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 45% · 2019 66% · 2020 86% · 2021 41% · 2022 20% · 2023 22%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.

How long its funders stay

50% of Pianofest Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Pianofest Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states in all.

NY
CT
FL

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

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Pianofest Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 15%Fundraising 13%

Governance

25
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pianofest Inc: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Pianofest Inc?
Pianofest Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $615,919 to it, the largest being GIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Pianofest Inc have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $615,919 in grants to Pianofest Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Pianofest Inc?
GIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Pianofest Inc 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 18funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing