Ohio · Nonprofit
THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE
THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE (Ohio) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,672,815 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY ($1,514,984). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $30M
What The Dayton Art Institute does
Mission
The Dayton Art Institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Curatorial (including collections and exhibitions) - care, development, display and interpretation of collections of more than 27,000 works of art dating from 2500 bc to present and spanning cultures worldwide.major 2024 special exhibitions included:the artistic life of aka pereyma riveting: women artists from the sara m. And michelle vance waddell collection merry grinchmas: art of dr. Suess' holiday classic & (b)art! America's funniest animated family.
$1,660,870 spent$763,293 earned by the program22% of program spendingEducation and interpretation - interpretive initiatives ranging from tours led by museum guides to "art + core connections" (multiple tours, art-making experiences and complementary in-school activities), educator workshops, more than 100 classes, teen program, family activities, drop-in interactive experiencenter, lectures and seminars, and more than 200 online courses available for free consumption, as well as the entire collection available online.
$557,875 spent$181,697 earned by the program7% of program spendingHistoric building - the dai's landmark 1930 italian revival style building, designed by e. B. Greene and on the national register of historic places, is one of the prized art works the museum interprets. It supports key programs. Expenses for the historic building related to program areas of the museum and consist of operation and maintenance, depreciation and financing related costs.
$5,466,856 spent71% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,685,601.
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 2021 to 2022, from $43M to $35M (−19%).
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: 2017 7% · 2018 7% · 2019 16% · 2020 23% · 2021 36% · 2022 10% · 2023 24% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Michael Roediger
Director and CEO
Board chair
Daniel Davis
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $971k → $1.5M.
15 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 funders by total. 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
THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
47% 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 THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 26% · 2019 17% · 2020 15% · 2021 12% · 2022 11% · 2023 11% — 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
48% of THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
73% of THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE's funding base is broadening — from 22 funders to 31 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $800k on record.
- Department of the Interior$800k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE?
- THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE (Ohio) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,672,815 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY ($1,514,984). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $12,672,815 in grants to THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE?
- DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY is the largest funder on record, with $1,514,984 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE 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.
Play a game about who funds Dayton Art Institute →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 76 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