California · Public charity
Arts Council Santa Cruz County
The organization's mission is to generate creativity, vibrancy, and connection within santa cruz county; to fund and support artists in the community, arts education and effective community collaborations in the arts.
- $249k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $72k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $14,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Arts Council Santa Cruz County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $72k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $97k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $128k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $208k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $231k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $120k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $84k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $90k | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music | $105,750 | 9 | 1% |
| Kuumbwa Jazz Society | $76,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Santa Cruz County Symphony Association | $64,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Shakespeare Play on Santa Cruz Shakespeare | $62,625 | 5 | 1% |
| Santa Cruz Art League Inc | $57,480 | 8 | 7% |
| El Sistema Santa Cruz | $56,900 | 7 | 2% |
| White Hawk Indian Council for Children | $56,600 | 6 | n/a |
| Motion Pacific | $56,400 | 7 | n/a |
| Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center | $53,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Watsonville Film Festival | $51,000 | 6 | 6% |
Show all 33 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($105k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Arts Council Santa Cruz County supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Arts Council Santa Cruz County
- How much does Arts Council Santa Cruz County give?
- Arts Council Santa Cruz County reported 9 itemized grants totaling $72,050, out of $248,692 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Arts Council Santa Cruz County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (88%), Human Services (8%), Recreation & Sports (3%).
- Who are Arts Council Santa Cruz County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music ($106k), Kuumbwa Jazz Society ($76k), Santa Cruz County Symphony Association ($64k).
- Does Arts Council Santa Cruz County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arts Council Santa Cruz County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Santa Cruz County, Monterey Peninsula Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
- Where is Arts Council Santa Cruz County based?
- Arts Council Santa Cruz County is based in CA.
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