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PORTSMOUTH AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC

PORTSMOUTH AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,385 to it, the largest being THE SCIOTO COUNTY AREA FOUNDATION ($131,934). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$36k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$154k
Net assets
$50k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Portsmouth Area Arts Council Inc does

Mission

To provide arts to the portsmouth area.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Provide art enrichment and performance productions to benefit local school children ages 6 to 18.

    $111,653 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Provides art enrichment & performance to benefit school children between the ages of 6 & 18

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $111,653.

02The 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 ($137k) Expenses 100 ($142k) Net assets 100 ($69k)2018 Revenue 107 ($146k) Expenses 98 ($140k) Net assets 110 ($76k)2019 Revenue 115 ($158k) Expenses 128 ($183k) Net assets 76 ($52k)2020 Revenue 72 ($99k) Expenses 74 ($106k) Net assets 66 ($46k)2021 Revenue 42 ($58k) Expenses 26 ($37k) Net assets 104 ($72k)2022 Revenue 73 ($100k) Expenses 64 ($91k) Net assets 116 ($80k)2023 Revenue 76 ($104k) Expenses 93 ($133k) Net assets 76 ($53k)2024 Revenue 93 ($127k) Expenses 94 ($134k) Net assets 72 ($50k)2025 Revenue 26 ($36k) Expenses 94 ($134k) Net assets 72 ($50k)
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Revenue (26)Expenses (94)Net assets (72)

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 $46k to $78k (+71%).

$69k
$76k
$52k
$46k
$78k
$80k
$53k
$50k
$50k
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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.

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2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$6k
’17
$6k
’18
−$25k
’19
−$7k
’20
$21k
’21
$9k
’22
−$29k
’23
−$7k
’24
−$98k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $23k → $20k.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PORTSMOUTH AREA ARTS COUNCIL 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

PORTSMOUTH AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

85%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 78% · 2019 76% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 99% · 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

99% of PORTSMOUTH AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH
CO

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

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $451 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds PORTSMOUTH AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC?
PORTSMOUTH AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,385 to it, the largest being THE SCIOTO COUNTY AREA FOUNDATION ($131,934). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PORTSMOUTH AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $154,385 in grants to PORTSMOUTH AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PORTSMOUTH AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC?
THE SCIOTO COUNTY AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $131,934 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PORTSMOUTH AREA ARTS COUNCIL 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.

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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