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Craft Emergency Relief Fund Inc

The craft emergency relief fund (cerf+) provides craft artists with support and resources for disaster and emergency relief, education programs, and readiness grants to strengthen preparedness.

$5.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$32k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$591kPublic Safety & Disaster$540kCommunity Improvement$31k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $72,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,048,616 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,976,616 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.
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSOC OF TRIBAL ARCH LIBRARIES$32,000
CTR FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN$15,000
ARTS AVL$15,000
RIVER ARTS DISTRICT ARTISTS INC$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $26k → 14%ASSOC OF TRIBAL ARCH LIBRARIES: $32k → 16%CTR FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN: $15k → 12%ARTIST TRUST: $55k → 9%UNITED STATES ARTISTS: $250k → 14%ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $33k → 19%ASSOC OF TRIBAL ARCH LIBRARIES: $32k → 16%ARTIST TRUST: $33k → 9%UNITED STATES ARTISTS: $250k → 14%ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $33k → 19%ARTIST TRUST: $33k → 9%ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $64k → 19%ARTIST TRUST: $33k → 9%ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $33k → 19%ARTIST TRUST: $9k → 9%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

WA
MN
IL
NC
DC
OK
LA
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 5 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$1.0M
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+2%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • United States Artists Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $500k · revenue +67%
  • AC
    Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $162k · revenue -7%
  • AT
    Artist Trust
    5× · 2020–2024 · $162k · revenue -1%

Funded once

  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +2%
  • CD
    CENTRO DE ECONOMIA CREATIVA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $31k · revenue -30%
  • SF
    SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +105%
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
United Artist Collaborative
Arts & Culture
2
Artnoir Inc

ARTNOIR is a global collective and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color from around the world while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.…

Arts & Culture
3
New Art Association
Arts & Culture
4
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
5
Artcouncil Inc Dba Artadia

Artadia is a national non-profit organization that supports visual artists withunrestricted, merit-based awards and fosters connections to a network ofopportunities.

Philanthropy
6
International Cultural Arts Network
Arts & Culture
7
Art Ambassador
—
8
Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council

Connecting community through arts, humanities, and cultural programs

—
9
South Arts Inc

South arts strengthens the south through advancing excellence in the arts by presenting programs and connecting with state arts agencies in the region.

—
10
The Black Literacy and Arts Collaborative Project
—
11
Fund for Art Science and Technology
—
12
Cultural Hub of Nw Florida Inc

A thriving art community creates a more prosperous and resilient community overall. We view resiliency as a top priority for our community as Panama City and the surrounding areas work to recover from Hurricane Michael in 2018. We believe…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springboard for the Arts; the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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

11 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United States Artists Inc: $500,000 · Arts & CultureUnited States Artists IncArts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc: $161,500 · Arts & CultureArts Council of Greater Baton Rouge IncArtist Trust: $161,500 · Arts & CultureArtist TrustNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC: $128,250 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INCSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $65,786 · Arts & Culture+4 moreAssociation of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums: $64,000 · EducationCENTRO DE ECONOMIA CREATIVA INC: $31,400 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$1,067,036Education$64,000Community Improvement$31,400

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited States Artists Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetArts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc: $161,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetArtist Trust: $161,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC: $128,250 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetAssociation of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums: $64,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRO DE ECONOMIA CREATIVA INC: $31,400 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $25,786 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Craft Emergency Relief Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Craft Emergency Relief Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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 11 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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