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ZYGOTE PRESS INC

ZYGOTE PRESS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $840,280 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($396,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$747k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$840k
Net assets
$604k
6/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Zygote Press Inc does

Mission

The organization is an established, nonprofit community printmaking studio, gallery, archive, and education center that supports artists through residency programs, studio access, and artistic development in a collaborative environment open to all.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Proof fellowship in 2025, zygote press expanded its proof (print residency of ohios future) fellowship from six to nine months, providing six artists with extended access to printmaking instruction, mentorship, workshops, collaborative workspace, artspass memberships, 24/7 studio access, and storage. Fellows worked in two cohorts of three, creating peer-based learning and professional development opportunities while preparing for a collaborative exhibition. Thirty artists applied to the spring 2025 open call. The six 2025 proof fellows were arfil pajarrillaga, briana robinson, erykah townsend, jazzee rozier, kalia horner, and monique biggers. Educational and community programsin 2025, zygote continued providing printmaking education and community programming through workshops, individual instruction, off-site events, and partnerships with educational, cultural, and community organizations throughout cleveland. Zygotes mobile art press provided accessible, interactive public printmaking experiences in the community. Earned revenue from educational and related programming increased to 155,025 in 2025. Exhibitions and public programsin 2025, zygote presented eight exhibitions, two…

    $330,894 spent$115,329 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $330,894.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($281k) Expenses 100 ($258k) Net assets 100 ($328k)2021 Revenue 102 ($288k) Expenses 122 ($313k) Net assets 92 ($301k)2022 Revenue 138 ($387k) Expenses 124 ($319k) Net assets 112 ($367k)2023 Revenue 92 ($258k) Expenses 146 ($375k) Net assets 78 ($255k)2024 Revenue 166 ($466k) Expenses 157 ($403k) Net assets 99 ($324k)2025 Revenue 266 ($747k) Expenses 184 ($473k) Net assets 184 ($604k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (266)Expenses (184)Net assets (184)Peer revenue range

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 $340k to $619k (+82%).

$381k
$318k
$371k
$291k
$340k
$619k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 48% · 2022 17% · 2023 24% · 2024 10% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of ZYGOTE PRESS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$23k
’20
−$25k
’21
$68k
’22
−$117k
’23
$63k
’24
$274k
’25
2.5
months of
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed131415131920
Joined·+10+2+5+10+4
No longer listed·91743
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $55k → $80k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 ZYGOTE PRESS INC’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

ZYGOTE PRESS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

38% 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 ZYGOTE PRESS INC.

47%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 58% · 2019 54% · 2020 54% · 2021 69% · 2022 91% · 2023 69% — 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

44% of ZYGOTE PRESS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

100% of ZYGOTE PRESS INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $307k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ZYGOTE PRESS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin37% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding ZYGOTE PRESS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $115k on record.

Federal$115k
grants $115kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$115k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 9%Fundraising 21%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

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Questions and answers

Who funds ZYGOTE PRESS INC?
ZYGOTE PRESS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $840,280 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($396,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ZYGOTE PRESS INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $840,280 in grants to ZYGOTE PRESS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ZYGOTE PRESS INC?
THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $396,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ZYGOTE PRESS INC 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 12 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