· Public charity
Community Art Stabilization Trust
To create stable physical spaces for arts and cultural organizations to facilitate equitable urban transformation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $642,169 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $697,825 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $55,656 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO | $642,169 |
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 (FY17–18, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +168% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $642k 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
- CUCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ2× · 2017–2018 · $33k · revenue +724%
- T3The 30th and West Live Work Community Arts Center Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $21k · revenue ×13
- EAEastSide Arts Alliance2× · 2017–2018 · $21k · revenue +168%
Funded once
- PAPerforming Arts Workshop Inc2× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue -60%
- URUnited Rootsone grant, 2018 · $56k · revenue -98%
COMMUNITY INITIATIVESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $33k · revenue +136%
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.
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,…
Supports and produces collaborative, multdisciplinary projects with local and international reach from an arab-american perspective.
To uplift the ancestral and primordial power of dance as an act of resistance, collective healing, and social transformation.Embodiment Project envisions a world where dance is integrated as a critical dimension of social and cultural…
Brava! for Women in the Arts, a professional arts organization, owns and operates the Brava Theater Center. At BRAVA we produce, present and cultivate the artistic expression of women, people of color, youth, LGBTQ and other unheard voices.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cast 447 Minna Llc and the most unlike its peers is Alena Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 15. 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 20 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
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 CAST 447 MINNA LLC ↗
- Who funds Performing Arts Workshop Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds United Roots ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds ALENA MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ ↗
- Who funds ROCK PAPER SCISSORS COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds The 30th and West Live Work Community Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds EastSide Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds MUSIC IS EXTRAORDINARY INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE PEACE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Womens Audio Mission ↗
- Who funds Project Bandaloop ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND THEATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem ↗
- Who funds Oakland Ballet Company ↗
- Who funds Pro Arts 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: East Bay Community Foundation · Center for Cultural Innovation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Akonadi Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Tides Foundation · The California Endowment
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 Community Art Stabilization Trust 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.
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.