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Community Art Stabilization Trust at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Community Art Stabilization Trust

To create stable physical spaces for arts and cultural organizations to facilitate equitable urban transformation.

$698k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$642k
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 2024.

Community Improvement$3.1MArts & Culture$490kEducation$56kYouth Development$56kHuman Services$33kCivil Rights$8k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $642,169, the rows itemized in this filing. The $697,825 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $55,656 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.
$642,169
Median grant
1
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO$642,169
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $29k → 10%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $3k → 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.
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 10 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +168% since the first grant, against -10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$2.6M
$455k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+168%
-10%

Still filing today

90%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $642k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther
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

  • CU
    COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ
    2× · 2017–2018 · $33k · revenue +724%
  • EA
    EastSide Arts Alliance
    2× · 2017–2018 · $21k · revenue +168%
  • MI
    MUSIC IS EXTRAORDINARY INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $21k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • PA
    Performing Arts Workshop Inc
    2× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue -60%
  • UR
    United Roots
    one grant, 2018 · $56k · revenue -99%
  • COMMUNITY INITIATIVESgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $33k · revenue +136%
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.

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Global Arts Project Inc
Arts & Culture
2
United Artist Collaborative
Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Dance Elixir

Supports and produces collaborative, multdisciplinary projects with local and international reach from an arab-american perspective.

Arts & Culture
5
Omniarts
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6
Embodiment Project

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Brava for Women in the Arts dba Brava Theater Center

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.

Arts & Culture
8
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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9
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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10
State of the Arts Productions
Arts & Culture
11
Artyard (Formerly Sprocket Arts)
Philanthropy
12
Artists for a Better World International
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cast 447 Minna Llc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 20 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAST 447 MINNA LLC: $2,461,285 · Arts & CultureCAST 447 MINNA LLCPerforming Arts Workshop Inc: $300,000 · Arts & CulturePerforming Arts Workshop Inc+8 more: $128,688 · Arts & CultureCITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FINANCE CORPORATION: $642,169 · OtherCITY AND COUNTY OF S…+2 more: $26,312 · OtherSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $56,250 · EducationUnited Roots: $56,250 · EducationCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ: $32,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $32,500 · PhilanthropyThe 30th and West Live Work Community Arts Center Inc: $21,000 · Housing & ShelterWomens Audio Mission: $14,000 · EmploymentAttitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem: $7,500 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$2,889,973Other$668,481Education$112,500Human Services$32,500Philanthropy$32,500Housing & Shelter$21,000Employment$14,000Civil Rights$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAST 447 MINNA LLC: $2,461,285 over 3y, 82% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $56,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Roots: $56,250 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ: $32,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetALENA MUSEUM INC: $32,500 over 2y, 77% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $32,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEastSide Arts Alliance: $21,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetROCK PAPER SCISSORS COLLECTIVE: $21,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCREATE PEACE PROJECT: $21,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetThe 30th and West Live Work Community Arts Center Inc: $21,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWomens Audio Mission: $14,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetProject Bandaloop: $11,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAttitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem: $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOakland Ballet Company: $6,281 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPro Arts Inc: $5,312 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

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.

East Bay Community Fo…Center for Cultural I…The San Francisco Fou…The Zellerbach Family…Walter and Elise Haas…The William & Flora H…Akonadi FoundationFleishhacker Foundati…Phyllis C Wattis Foun…Kenneth Rainin Founda…Tides FoundationThe California Endowm…
East Bay Community FoundationCA24.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Community Art Stabilization Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Art Stabilization Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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