Ohio · Nonprofit
THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION
THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,073,759 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($397,340). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What The Fine Arts Association does
Mission
Our mission: create and discover beauty to foster a community empowered by the arts. This reflects our highest aspirations for our organization as we strive for artistic excellence and represents the pedagogical principal in all our educational programs and performances. We use this statement provocatively understanding that the word beauty is a subjective concept. Yet we see beauty in much more than the art itself. We see beauty in the process of creation and discovery. We see beauty when a child learns how to make their first sound on a flute or paints their first picture. We see beauty when a previously shy student can deliver their first lines on stage. We see beauty when a child struggling with emotional or communication challenges can positively express themselves and what they feel through music or art therapy. We see beauty in the inspiration our students, teachers, performers, and clients provide and the aspirations they hold onto firmly. We see beauty in everyone and the pote
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Fine Arts Association (faa) was founded in 1957 to bring quality arts programming to northeast ohio. Our professional faculty of teaching artists provide instruction in visual arts, music, dance and theatre through classes and private lessons, both onsite and offsite. During the summer months, camps are offered in many disciplines. Students are given the opportunity to perform at recitals and share days throughout the year. Additionally, faa offers group and individual services in both music and arts therapies along with adapted programming and specialized workshops. Off-site creative arts therapies services are available to preschools, private/public schools, nursing homes, hospitals, and other community-based agencies, tailored to their specific needs. Over 1,800 people of all ages currently participate in our education and creative arts therapies programs. Faa produces four theatre productions each year, with at least one geared towards families. One performance of each production is sensory-friendly. We offer a series of free performances featuring our faculty along with community musicians. There are concerts throughout the year by both our community chorus and community…
$2,610,205 spent$1,921,748 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,610,205.
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 $6.8M to $5.8M (−15%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 17% · 2021 13% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 17% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $45k → $212k.
6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $607k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Northern Ohio Fine Arts Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION’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
THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 32% · 2019 76% · 2020 33% · 2021 32% · 2022 38% · 2023 47% — broadly stable.
“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
53% of THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
96% of THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $511k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: 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 THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION?
- THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,073,759 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($397,340). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,073,759 in grants to THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $397,340 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION 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 26 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