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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 FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$4.0MArts & Culture$3.9MHousing & Shelter$1.1MEnvironment$835kReligion$455kHuman Services$444kEducation$418kEmployment$306kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 30 grants below total $2,342,600, the rows itemized in this filing. The $19,312,785 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,970,185 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 $10k7 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$50,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIES LAW CENTER$75,000
SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION$75,000
NATIVE ROOTS NETWORK INC$75,000
WISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND$75,000
VOICE OF CALVARY MINISTRIES$75,000
NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS$75,000
BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND$50,000
ROANHORSE CONSULTING LLC$50,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $300k → 18%EXCELLENCE IN MOTION INC: $25k → 14%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $50k → 18%VOICE OF CALVARY MINISTRIES: $80k → 23%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $30k → 18%VOICE OF CALVARY MINISTRIES: $75k → 23%LC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE: $20k → 9%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $25k → 18%VOICE OF CALVARY MINISTRIES: $75k → 23%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $25k → 18%VOICE OF CALVARY MINISTRIES: $75k → 23%THE ARC-SOLANO: $10k → 10%VOICE OF CALVARY MINISTRIES: $75k → 23%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%KITKA INC: $10k → 10%BAY AREA MURAL PROGRAM INC: $10k → 10%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

VT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.3M · 37 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
196

Total granted

$7.3M
$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+22%

Still filing today

81%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationEmploymentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TB
    The Big We
    5× · 2021–2025 · $455k · revenue +377%
  • US
    United States Federation for Worker Cooperation
    3× · 2020–2023 · $452k · revenue +226% · 25% of their budget
  • EY
    EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $430k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • AF
    Alliance for California Traditional Arts
    one grant, 2021 · $450k · revenue -26%
  • CF
    Canticle Farm
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
  • TI
    THE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS
    one grant, 2024 · $106k · revenue 0%
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
ArtsSV

Founded in 2018 by a group of high-tech investors, and arts executives and advocates, ArtsSV is on the meaningful track of changing the cultural landscape of Silicon Valley.

Education
2
Artronika

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…

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3
Occidental Center for the Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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5
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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6
Pocket Opera Inc

Pocket Opera shares the beauty, artistry, and scope of the operatic repertoire sung in English, through performance, outreach, and education.

Arts & Culture
7
Ballet Afsaneh Art & Culture Society

Promote the expressive arts of the historic silk road region of Eurasia

Arts & Culture
8
Dandelion Dancetheater

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Rhythmix Cultural Works

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,…

Arts & Culture
10
San Francisco Basque Folkloric Groups
Arts & Culture
11
Oaklash

To provide cultural programming for the benefit of artists and performers.

Arts & Culture
12
Movimiento De Arte Y Cultura Latino Americana De San Jose Incorporated

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fulcrum Arts; 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.
04the grantee network

186 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
61
Early backer (in before they grew)
182/186
Grantees still filing
112/186
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EB Permanent Real Estate Coop: $850,000 · OtherEB Permanent Real Estate CoopBELOVED ECONOMIES LLC: $500,000 · OtherBELOVED ECONOMIES LLCROANHORSE CONSULTING: $200,500 · OtherSustainable Economies Law Center: $325,000 · OtherSustainable Economies Law CenterTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $250,000 · OtherTHE URBAN INSTITUTE+75 more: $2,503,578 · Other+75 moreAlliance for California Traditional Arts: $450,000 · Arts & CultureAlliance for California T…Intersection for the Arts: $349,776 · Arts & CultureIntersection for the ArtsMEDIA ARTS CENTER SAN DIEGO: $143,550 · Arts & CultureSILICON VALLEY CREATES: $139,850 · Arts & Culture+85 more: $1,704,286 · Arts & Culture+85 moreCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC: $526,125 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR ECONOMIC D…The Big We: $455,000 · Community ImprovementThe Big WeEVERYDAY PEOPLE FOR CHANGE INC: $365,000 · Community ImprovementEVERYDAY PEOPLE FOR C…BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND: $285,000 · Community ImprovementBOSTON IMPACT INITIAT…THE WORKING WORLD INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementTHE WORKING WORLD INCBOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC: $125,000 · Community ImprovementBOSTON UJIMA PROJECT …COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $119,600 · Community ImprovementCOMMON FUTURE: $115,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $75,000 · Community ImprovementEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $430,000 · Human ServicesVOICE OF CALVARY MINISTRIES: $380,300 · Human Services+6 more: $85,000 · Human ServicesUnited States Federation for Worker Cooperation: $452,000 · EmploymentTHE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS: $106,000 · EmploymentCUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC: $25,000 · EmploymentWomens Audio Mission: $22,500 · Employment+1 more: $10,000 · EmploymentNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $350,000 · PhilanthropySolidaire Network Inc: $100,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN LUIS VALLEY: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CEJJES INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropySUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $375,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $50,000 · Environment
Other$4,629,078Arts & Culture$2,787,462Community Improvement$2,315,725Human Services$895,300Employment$615,500Philanthropy$535,000Environment$425,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC: $526,125 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetThe Big We: $455,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetUnited States Federation for Worker Cooperation: $452,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetAlliance for California Traditional Arts: $450,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $430,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetVOICE OF CALVARY MINISTRIES: $380,300 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $375,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEVERYDAY PEOPLE FOR CHANGE INC: $365,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $350,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $349,776 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetSustainable Economies Law Center: $325,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND: $285,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WORKING WORLD INC: $250,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCanticle Farm: $150,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMEDIA ARTS CENTER SAN DIEGO: $143,550 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetSILICON VALLEY CREATES: $139,850 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBOSTON UJIMA PROJECT INC: $125,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $119,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON FUTURE: $115,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS: $106,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetArts for LA: $71,750 over 1y, 12% of budgetHIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetThe Workers Lab: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDANCERS GROUP: $46,250 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCultura y Arte Nativa De Las Americas: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTAIKOPROJECT: $30,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetDEAF WEST THEATRE COMPANY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetWorld Stage Performance Gallery: $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCompany of Angels Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKUTTURAN CHAMORU FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMuseIque: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetArtists at Play Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetLOS ANGELES POVERTY DEPARTMENT: $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetJEWISH WOMEN'S THEATRE: $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNEW ECONOMY COALITION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles: $30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLONG BEACH OPERA: $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOLLABORATIVE ARTISTS BLOC: $30,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetINVERTIGO DANCE THEATRE: $30,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIAMA THEATRE COMPANY: $30,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY: $30,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetHEIDI DUCKLER DANCE: $30,000 over 1y, 4.3% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Zellerbach Family…Kenneth Rainin Founda…Fleishhacker Foundati…Phyllis C Wattis Foun…Walter and Elise Haas…East Bay Community Fo…The William & Flora H…California HumanitiesThe San Francisco Fou…The Sam Mazza Foundat…The Map Fund IncNew England Foundatio…
The Zellerbach Family FoundationCA113.9× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Cultural Innovation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Cultural Innovation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
64report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 253 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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