Ohio · Nonprofit
THE SCULPTURE CENTER
THE SCULPTURE CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $527,597 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($139,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $710k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $528k
- Net assets
- $383k
What The Sculpture Center does
Mission
The Sculpture Center is one of the only cultural instituitons providing critical resources to sculptors along their journey through creation, exhibition, mentorship, conversation and engagement, and development and support opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In the period april 2024 - june 2025 The Sculpture Center (tsc) worked with internationally recognized puerto rican artist edra soto to mount a 4-part multifaceted exhibition which invited audiences to celebrate the experience of finding and creating home. Channeling her own migratory experience, soto wove together personal and collective stories of migration and honored the deep and growing roots of cleveland's latinx community. Her gallery exhibition la casa de todos (may 16 - july 19, 2025) welcomed over 700 guests. The companion la casa compartida exhibition showcased portraits of family by eleven artists and creatives from the cleveland community who have known both the joy and the pain of migration. A third community component, a publication/journal also titled la casa de todos included 9 latinx writers in cleveland who shared their migration stories in poetry, prose and narrative and 11 visual artists. A fourth and final component of the exhibition will be a permanent public artwork in the form of a bus shelter that will be placed in the clark fulton neighborhood where the city's highest percentage of latinx population resides. A metaphor of an in-between place, la…
$394,531 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $394,531.
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 2024 to 2025, from $230k to $392k (+71%).
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 53% · 2018 22% · 2019 15% · 2020 16% · 2021 26% · 2022 14% · 2023 4% · 2024 6% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of THE SCULPTURE CENTER’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. 4 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 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $26k → $92k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 SCULPTURE CENTER’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 SCULPTURE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
34% 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 SCULPTURE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 36% · 2019 57% · 2020 57% · 2021 32% · 2022 33% · 2023 55% — 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
83% of THE SCULPTURE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
72% of THE SCULPTURE CENTER's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k 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
THE SCULPTURE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE SCULPTURE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$75k
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 SCULPTURE CENTER
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
72% 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 THE SCULPTURE CENTER: 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 SCULPTURE CENTER?
- THE SCULPTURE CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $527,597 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($139,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SCULPTURE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $527,597 in grants to THE SCULPTURE CENTER, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SCULPTURE CENTER?
- THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $139,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SCULPTURE CENTER 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 13 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