Miriam Rosenthal Foundation For The Arts Cibc
The Miriam Rosenthal Foundation for the Arts is a Dayton-based arts endowment (celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2025–2026) that provides grants and underwriting to professional arts organizations and projects in the community. The official site includes foundation history, grant program details, grant recipients, and donation information.
Source: Website · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
A professionally organized, incorporated arts or performing-arts nonprofit serving the Dayton / Miami Valley community seeking general operating or project support and able to follow a mailed application process and deadlines.
Good Fit
- • Primary mission serving residents of the Miami Valley (Dayton area).
- • Established 501(c)(3) performing-arts or arts organization (theater, dance, music, chorus).
- • Requests for general support or underwriting rather than highly experimental programming.
- • Willingness to submit the required outline and multiple printed copies by the stated deadlines.
Geography
All observed grants across the three-year record were made to organizations in Ohio (Dayton/Miami Valley), so giving is tightly geographically concentrated despite the foundation being incorporated in another state.
Recipient Variety
The foundation funded between 2 and 5 distinct recipients per year (4 recipients in 2024) and supported multiple independent arts organizations; there are both repeat grantees and new entrants, indicating a moderate spread rather than a single-beneficiary pattern.
New Applicants
Direct application instructions, public deadlines, a named chairman contact, and observed new recipients (two new in 2024) provide clear behavioral and procedural evidence that unfamiliar, qualifying arts nonprofits can apply successfully, subject to the Miami Valley service restriction.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
