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Center for Artistic Activism Inc

The center for artistic activism is the home for artists, activists and scholars to explore, discuss, reflect upon and strengthen connections between social activism and artistic practice.

$78k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Benefit$148kArts & Culture$121kCivil Rights$29kCommunity Improvement$19kEducation$10kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$10kHealth$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $70,005, the rows itemized in this filing. The $78,005 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
$8,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$605k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PUBLIC ASSISTANTS$24,236
EUREKA PRESS LLC$13,769
FAIR COUNT INC$8,000
NETROOTS NATION$8,000
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE$8,000
LGBT CENTER ORLANDO INC$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHINESE AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $19k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
OH
PA
CA
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$206k · 3 repeat orgs$234k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +145% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
16

Total granted

$206k
$210k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+145%
+4%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PA
    PUBLIC ASSISTANTS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $87k · revenue -72% · 26% of their budget
  • FC
    FAIR COUNT INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $62k · revenue +145%
  • EP
    EUREKA PRESS LLC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $57k

Funded once

  • DL
    DEMOCRASEXY LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $44k
  • CP
    CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $19k · revenue 0%
  • CC
    COMMON CAUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +133%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc

The mission of asian americans advancing justice-aajc (aajc) is to advance civil and human rights for asian americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all.

Civil Rights
2
Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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3
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
4
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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5
Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote

It is the mission of APIAVote to encourage and promote civic participation of Asian Pacific Islander Americans in the electoral and public processes at the national, state, and local levels. APIAVote also aims to educate and inform Asian…

Civil Rights
6
Justice Action Center

Justice Action Center JAC pilots an innovative model that advances the rights of immigrant communities by connecting cutting-edge impact litigation and compelling narrative and communications content. The purpose of JAC is to advance the…

Civil Rights
7
Colorofchangeorg

Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…

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8
Center for Popular Democracy Inc

The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…

Public Benefit
9
Poder

PODER Inc. is a non-partisan organization that combats voter suppression by engaging Black and Brown New Yorkers around local, state, and federal elections.

Civil Rights
10
Action Institute Nc

Action institute nc is a community organization and citizens action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and…

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11
Not an Alternative Inc

Not an alternative specializes in cultural organizing,narrative-changing, and creative advocacy strategies that advance the public good. we have a mission to address critical environmental and social challenges and build a more inclusive…

Arts & Culture
12
First Amendment Coalition

The first amendment coalition protects and promotes a free press, freedom of expression and the people's right to know. continued on schedule o.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Community Success Initiative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EUREKA PRESS LLC: $56,973 · OtherEUREKA PRESS LLCDEMOCRASEXY LLC: $44,350 · OtherDEMOCRASEXY LLCCOMMON CAUSE: $15,000 · OtherCOMMON CAUSECLEVELAND VOTES: $15,000 · OtherCLEVELAND VOTESJUST ACT INC: $10,000 · OtherEMILY'S PLACE INC: $10,000 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM: $10,000 · OtherSAN MARCOS CINEMA CLUB: $10,000 · OtherPITTSBURGH DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA: $10,000 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACY: $9,000 · OtherLGBT CENTER ORLANDO INC: $8,000 · OtherPUBLIC ASSISTANTS INC: $86,627 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC ASSISTANTS INCSCORE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSCOREAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $8,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PE…FAIR COUNT INC: $62,000 · Community ImprovementFAIR COUNT INCTHE ALLY COALITION INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsTHE ALLY …NEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsNEW VOICE…ALIANZA CENTER INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsALIANZA C…NETROOTS NATION (F/K/A BLOGGERPOWERORG): $8,000 · Civil RightsNETROOTS …CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Success Initiative Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $7,333 · Health
Other$198,323Arts & Culture$104,627Community Improvement$62,000Civil Rights$38,000Human Services$29,000Health$7,333

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPUBLIC ASSISTANTS INC: $86,627 over 3y, 26% of budgetFAIR COUNT INC: $62,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $19,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUST ACT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetCommunity Success Initiative Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ALLY COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALIANZA CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLGBT CENTER ORLANDO INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNETROOTS NATION (F/K/A BLOGGERPOWERORG): $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $7,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

NEO Philanthropy IncNew Venture FundAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
NEO Philanthropy IncNY13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Center for Artistic Activism Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Artistic Activism Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Alianza Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 22 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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