California · 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
- $19M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 75
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Center for Cultural Innovation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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 | 30 | $2.3M | 57% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $2.3M | 71% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $1.7M | 52% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $985k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 74 | $2.9M | 82% |
| FY2020 | 75 | $1.7M | 89% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $207k | 78% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $216k | 91% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EB Permanent Real Estate Coop | $850,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Center for Economic Democracy Inc | $526,125 | 5 | 3% |
| Beloved Economies LLC | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Big We | $455,000 | 5 | 8% |
| United States Federation for Worker Cooperation | $452,000 | 3 | 25% |
| Alliance for California Traditional Arts | $450,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Ekvnv Yefolecvlke | $430,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Voice of Calvary Ministries | $380,300 | 5 | 5% |
| Sustainable Markets Foundation | $375,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Everyday People for Change Inc | $365,000 | 5 | 5% |
Show all 250 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Center for Cultural Innovation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 165 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About Center for Cultural Innovation
- How much does Center for Cultural Innovation give?
- Center for Cultural Innovation reported 30 itemized grants totaling $2,342,600, out of $19,312,785 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 75 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Center for Cultural Innovation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (32%), Arts & Culture (31%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
- Who are Center for Cultural Innovation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: EB Permanent Real Estate Coop ($850k), Center for Economic Democracy Inc ($526k), Beloved Economies LLC ($500k).
- Does Center for Cultural Innovation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Center for Cultural Innovation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Zellerbach Family Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Fleishhacker Foundation.
- Where is Center for Cultural Innovation based?
- Center for Cultural Innovation is based in CA.
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