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California · Public charity

Create CA

Create CA advocates for high-quality arts education for all students by providing policy expertise and mobilizing a statewide network of advocates and allied partners.

$74k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2024
$33k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$5,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2019 to FY2021
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$3.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Create CA funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$33k100%
FY20211$32k0%
FY20201$36k0%
FY20191$38kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$129kYouth Development$6kEducation$4k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Create CA$105,99032%
Destiny Arts Center$5,50010%
Luna Kids Dance Inc dba Luna Dance Institute Luna Dance & Creativity$5,50011%
Colusa County Arts Council$5,5001n/a
Arts Bridging the Gap$5,50011%
Generation Music & Art Academy$5,50011%
Museum of Childrens Art$5,50010%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Create CA

How much does Create CA give?
Create CA reported 6 itemized grants totaling $33,000, out of $73,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
What does Create CA fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (93%), Youth Development (4%), Education (3%).
Who are Create CA's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Create CA ($106k), Destiny Arts Center ($6k), Luna Kids Dance Inc dba Luna Dance Institute Luna Dance & Creativity ($6k).
Does Create CA fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Create CA?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Create CA based?
Create CA is based in CA.

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 7 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $69k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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