Ohio · Nonprofit
The Musical Arts Association
The Musical Arts Association (Ohio) receives grants from 268 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,069,502 to it, the largest being THE ERIC & JANE NORD FAMILY FUND ($6,220,000). 200 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $79M
- Funders on record
- 268
- Grants received
- $71M
- Net assets
- $347M
What The Musical Arts Association does
Mission
The Cleveland Orchestra inspires and enriches lives by creating extraordinary musical experiences at the highest level of artistic excellence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Severance Music Center, Northeast Ohio, and Digital InitiativesRegarded by many music-lovers as one of the world's most beautiful concert halls, Severance opened in 1931 as the home of The Cleveland Orchestra. Today, the main concert hall is known as the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Concert Hall, in recognition of a historic $50 million grant from the Cleveland-based Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation. Severance Music Center serves as the home of The Cleveland Orchestra for concerts, rehearsals, and administration. The building is also rented by a variety of local organizations and private citizens for performances, meetings, and gala events.Located in the University Circle district on the campus of Case Western Reserve University near the Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance Music Center has served as an integral arts and community hub for generations. Though its acclaimed concerts and recordings delight audiences worldwide, The Cleveland Orchestra is a proud ambassador of Northeast Ohio.The Cleveland Orchestra has a long and storied recording history and an expansive catalog of albums released across the past century. Having launched its own recording label in 2020 with…
$31,040,279 spent$9,670,840 earned by the program53% of program spendingTouring and ResidenciesEach year, the Orchestra allocates several weeks of its performance schedule to residencies and touring activities beyond Northeast Ohio, nationally and internationally. These are designed to enhance both the artistic and financial strength of the organization and extend the Orchestra's worldwide reputation. The season started with the Orchestra's 80th international tour and the 22nd under the baton of Music Director Franz Welser-Most, with a concert recognizing the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner's birth in his home city of Ansfelden, Austria as part of a year-long celebration. The tour also marked The Cleveland Orchestra's return to Helsinki, Finland and Bratislava, Slovakia for the first time since 1965. The season also marked the 18th year of the Orchestra's Miami Residency and partnership with the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. The Residency also included musician coaching sessions with students from Bethune-Cookman University, pre-concert performances by the Miami Music Project, and two days of free education concerts for Miami students.
$10,000,801 spent$2,777,444 earned by the program17% of program spendingBlossom Musical Festival and Blossom Music CenterThe 2024 Blossom Music Festival featured a wide range of concerts at The Cleveland Orchestra's summer home in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Most returned to Blossom to conduct Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, and pianist Vikingur Olafsson in Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto. The festival also welcomed conductors Domingo Hindoyan and Antonello Manacorda in their Cleveland Orchestra debuts and spotlighted two Cleveland Orchestra soloists: Principal Trumpet Michael Sachs in Arutiunian's Trumpet Concerto and Principal Cello Mark Kosower in Walton's Cello Concerto. Fresh off his latest Grammy Award wins, banjo player Bela Fleck joined The Cleveland Orchestra and conductor Brett Mitchell for Rhapsody in Blue. Tony and Grammy award-winning singer and actor Leslie Odom, Jr. made his Cleveland Orchestra debut following the annual Blossom Summer Soiree, a special event to benefit the Orchestra's summer home.
$10,552,895 spent$4,533,662 earned by the program18% of program spendingDigital Education and Community ResourcesThe Cleveland Orchestra continued serving Northeast Ohio over the course of the 2024-25 season. Ongoing programs in Severance Music Center such as Family Concerts, Education Concerts, and Music Explorers reached more than 20,000 students and thousands of children and families. In-School programs such as Crescendo and Music Mentors created access to instrumental music and expert instruction in Cleveland area schools. All Cleveland Orchestra educational programs are now free for schools. Weekly Concert Previews and Music in Depth webinars continued to serve Cleveland Orchestra lifelong learners.The Orchestra's performed Wild Symphony by New York Times best-selling author Dan Brown as part of its Family Concert series, intended for children ages 7 to 12. The concert brought to life nearly two dozen musical portraits drawn from the animal kingdom, with Brown narrating live. The Orchestra's returned to Cain Park in Cleveland Heights for the first time since 1957. This free community concert celebrated the rich tapestry of American music and was conducted by Anthony Parnther. Across a typical season, the Orchestra's education and community…
$6,828,564 spent$8,094,981 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $58,422,539.
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 2020 to 2021, from $285M to $368M (+29%).
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 6% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 11% · 2022 20% · 2023 3% · 2024 11% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of The Musical Arts Association’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Andre Gremillet
President & CEO
Board chair
Richard K Smucker
Chairman & Resident Trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 75 funders to 144 funders, grant income rose $3.4M → $11M.
26 of 268 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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: $65M from 21 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation); $11M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Musical Arts Assn Orch End Ta). These are real filings, and they are not money The Musical Arts Association raised.
From the IRS filings of The Musical Arts Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 268 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 Musical Arts Association has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 13 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 13 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 13% · 2018 38% · 2019 17% · 2020 16% · 2021 11% · 2022 20% · 2023 24% — 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of The Musical Arts Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
81% of The Musical 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. $8.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 Musical Arts Association's funding base is broadening — from 75 funders to 144 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding The Musical Arts Association receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $402k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$340k
- National Archives and Records Administration$62k
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 Musical 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Musical 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 Musical Arts Association?
- The Musical Arts Association (Ohio) receives grants from 268 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,069,502 to it, the largest being THE ERIC & JANE NORD FAMILY FUND ($6,220,000). 200 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Musical Arts Association have?
- IRS filings report 268 organizations giving $71,069,502 in grants to The Musical Arts Association, 200 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Musical Arts Association?
- THE ERIC & JANE NORD FAMILY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Musical 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 268 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