Ohio · Nonprofit
PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS
PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $894,250 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($465,250). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $266k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $894k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Professional Artistic Research Projects does
Mission
PAR-Projects' mission is to empower diverse communities of people who believe in the arts. As educators, we provide classes and workshops related to creative career paths. As working artists, we enjoy hosting thought-provoking exhibitions and collaborations with regional artists focused on making creatively compelling statements.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Arts and Exhibition Facilities: We create space for artists to collaborate and engage with community, while expanding their social and professional networks. This is accomplished via the creation of pop-up (temporary) galleries and the ongoing renovation & expansion of our creative campus, locate in Northside, Cincinnati. Within these spaces we exhibit artwork & creative statements, oftentimes absorbing the cost of travel, shipping, and installation to alleviate burdens often faced by mid-career artists.
$225,504 spent$29,922 earned by the program68% of program spendingCollaborations & Community Engagement Programming: We create opportunities for collaborative projects to help support fellow nonprofits, working artists, and partnering businesses looking to give back to the community. These often present themselves as fine art exhibitions, pop-up (temporary) experiences, art markets, and shared experiences & festivals.
$29,210 spent$41,188 earned by the program9% of program spendingVisiting Artist and Education Program: We create educational opportunities that benefit our communities, as well as artists of the region. As we are still recovering and adjusting from the COVID 19 lockdown, our primary expenses of this program were related to planning and equipment purchases.
$76,396 spent$181,500 earned by the program23% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $331,110.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $1.8M (+3%).
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 2% · 2022 7% · 2023 6% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Jonathan Sears
Executive Director
Board chair
Herbert Robinson
President of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $55k → $287k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS’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
PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 77% · 2020 67% · 2021 98% · 2022 56% · 2023 52% — 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.
Where its funders are
53% of PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS'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 $419k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $475k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS has grown faster than three-quarters 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
Organizations like PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS: 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 PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS?
- PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $894,250 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($465,250). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $894,250 in grants to PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS?
- THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $465,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 6 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