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Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation

The mission of the black cultural zone cdc is to unapologetically center black arts, culture, and economics as we collectively design, resource, transform, and build collective power for our communities.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,125,060
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,125,060
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$26M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $490k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24
Community ImprovementHealthArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$1.6M0%
FY20242$740k50%
FY20234$628k100%
FY20211$180kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Community Improvement$2.1MHousing & Shelter$1.0MHealth$30kYouth Development$25kArts & Culture$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Liberation Park Market Hall$1,927,5603n/a
Liberation Park Residences LP$1,000,0002n/a
FUSE Corps$180,00012%
Roots Community Health Center$30,00010%
East Oakland Youth Development Center$25,00010%
Brotherhood of Elders Network$20,00012%

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.

The California Wellness FoundationCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Wellness Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Network for Good

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation

How much does Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation give?
Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation reported 2 grants totaling $1,635,060 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (66%), Housing & Shelter (31%), Health (1%).
Who are Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Liberation Park Market Hall ($1.9M), Liberation Park Residences LP ($1.0M), FUSE Corps ($180k).
Does Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The California Wellness Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Network for Good.
Where is Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation based?
Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 6 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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