Ohio · Nonprofit
SUMMIT ARTSPACE
SUMMIT ARTSPACE (Ohio) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,214,489 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($395,450). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $681k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $468k
What Summit Artspace does
Mission
Summit Artspace connects artists and artist-serving organizations to the community and to the resources they need to thrive professionally, creatively, and financially. Its core values of creativity, collaboration, and community guide the current strategic plan, which focuses on six key priority areas: 1) supporting artists at all levels of their creative journey, 2) encouraging participation in the arts through education and outreach, 3) serving as a vital creative resource for the community, 4) increasing awareness and visibility throughout the community, 5) building financial sustainability through revenue growth and 6) diversifying artists we serve. Additionally, Summit Artspace seeks to build public awareness concerning the value of artists as contributors to our area's creative economy, quality of life, and place-making for those that live, work or go to school in summit and contiguous counties.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Summit Artspace is home to five galleries: the taylor main gallery, intersections gallery, welcome gallery, horizons gallery and forum gallery. These galleries host over 25 exhibitions a year, featuring local artists and engaging thousands of visitors, both in-person and virtually. Quarterly exhibition cycles feature a wide variety of artists and visual mediums and a combination of juried, solo, and group artist exhibitions. Summit Artspace maintains public hours on fridays and saturdays and special events. Summit Artspace curates community spaces throughout the community to display art to thousands of individuals during their daily activities.
$83,622 spent$20,712 earned by the program19% of program spendingPrograms to assist artists with wraparound care and professional skills are an important opportunity for Summit Artspace to implement the akron cultural plan across multiple priorities, including talent development. A signature offering is its artist care programs (artist launchpad, professional practice, and one-to-one), which provide entrepreneurial and skill building sessions from local artists and content experts to support artists as they develop their practices. Participating artists represent multiple mediums including theatre, dance and visual art. Programs are offered on a sliding scale, and most offer scholarships to participants who require financial support. Summit Artspace collaborates with local artists and arts/culture organizations to offer rehearsal, meeting, instruction and space at an in-kind or reduced rate. Summit Artspace also provides fiscal sponsorship for artist-centered projects.
$301,223 spentof which $197,454 as grants$72,589 earned by the program68% of program spendingSummit Artspace is home to nearly 30 artists and artist-serving organizations for working studio space that allow artists to create work and engage with the public. The building, formally the headquarters of the akron beacon journal and the akron public library, is owned by the county of summit, which is a valued partner in ensuring free and public access to the arts. Summit Artspace produces public programs that encourage a robust and sustained "exchange" between the northeast ohio residents and summit county artists. Outcomes include increased arts engagement, direct connections with local artists, and artwork sales. Events include artwalk, artist sunday, the arts alive awards, and partnerships with other organizations such as junior leadership akron, summit dd, summit county public health, and the office of u.s. Rep. Emilia sykes (14th congressional student arts exhibition).
$58,870 spent$73,261 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $443,715.
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 2023 to 2024, from $327k to $525k (+60%).
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 3% · 2020 8% · 2021 14% · 2022 16% · 2023 4% · 2024 7% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of SUMMIT ARTSPACE’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. 3 of the last 8 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
Heather Meeker
Exec. Dir.,r
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $63k → $153k.
4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 SUMMIT ARTSPACE’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
SUMMIT ARTSPACE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 SUMMIT ARTSPACE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 50% · 2019 65% · 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 35% · 2023 42% — 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
33% of SUMMIT ARTSPACE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
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
54% of SUMMIT ARTSPACE'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 $565k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $650k 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.
Against its field
SUMMIT ARTSPACE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SUMMIT ARTSPACE
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 SUMMIT ARTSPACE: 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 SUMMIT ARTSPACE?
- SUMMIT ARTSPACE (Ohio) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,214,489 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($395,450). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SUMMIT ARTSPACE have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,214,489 in grants to SUMMIT ARTSPACE, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUMMIT ARTSPACE?
- AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $395,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUMMIT ARTSPACE 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 23 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing