· Public charity
Center for Cultural Innovation
Education/Support/Services for Artists The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) was launched in 2001 to promote knowledge sharing, networking and financial independence for individual artists and creative entrepreneurs by providing business training, grants
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $2,342,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $19,312,785 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,970,185 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELOVED ECONOMIES LLC | $500,000 |
| EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE | $300,000 |
| EAST BAY PERMANENT REAL ESTATE COOPERATIVE INC | $250,000 |
| HISTORIC CLAYBORN TEMPLE | $150,000 |
| BOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC | $125,000 |
| THE URBAN INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| METAGOV INC | $90,000 |
| NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $75,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIES LAW CENTER | $75,000 |
| WISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND | $75,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| VOICE OF CALVARY MINISTRIES | $75,000 |
| NATIVE ROOTS NETWORK INC | $75,000 |
| ROANHORSE CONSULTING LLC | $50,000 |
| HIP HOP FOR THE PEOPLE | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $895k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $526k · revenue +5%- TBThe Big We5× · 2021–2025 · $455k · revenue +34%
- USUnited States Federation for Worker Cooperation3× · 2020–2023 · $452k · revenue +226% · 25% of their budget
Funded once
- AFAlliance for California Traditional Artsone grant, 2021 · $450k · revenue -26%
- CFCanticle Farmone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
- TITHE INDUSTRIAL COMMONSone grant, 2024 · $106k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…
ARTRONIKA is a collective of Los Angeles based artists that produce immersive arts programming showcasing an array of South Asian talent and culture. Through innovative and inclusive events, we reimagine traditional music, art, and…
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
Promote the expressive arts of the historic silk road region of Eurasia
To provide cultural programming for the benefit of artists and performers.
Rhythmix Cultural Works RCW is a community cultural arts center that brings people of all ages together for high quality arts experiences in music, dance, theater, exhibits and arts education. RCW seeks to promote cultural awareness,…
MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana is an inclusive contemporary arts space grounded in the Chicano/Latino experience that incubates new visual, literary and performance art in order to engage people in civic dialogue and…
Dandelion is situated at the crossroads of dance, theater, music, community activism, healing, and new performance forms. The company is committed to the individual and intersecting artistic visions of Kimiko Guthrie and Eric Kupers. Our…
Pacific Arts Movement presents Pan Asian media arts to San Diego residents and visitors in order to inspire, entertain, and support a more compassionate society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Youth Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Canticle Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
186 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 186 of the 253 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds The Big We ↗
- Who funds United States Federation for Worker Cooperation ↗
- Who funds Alliance for California Traditional Arts ↗
- Who funds EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF CALVARY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERYDAY PEOPLE FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Intersection for the Arts ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Economies Law Center ↗
- Who funds BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE WORKING WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds Canticle Farm ↗
- Who funds MEDIA ARTS CENTER SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY CREATES ↗
- Who funds THE COLLECTIVE THE CLTV INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds COMMON FUTURE ↗
- Who funds THE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS ↗
- Who funds Solidaire Network Inc ↗
- Who funds METAGOV INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Native Roots Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Arts for LA ↗
- Who funds HIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · East Bay Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · California Humanities · The San Francisco Foundation · The Sam Mazza Foundation · The Map Fund Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Center for Cultural Innovation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.