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Creative Capital Foundation

Creative capital supports individual artists' projects through awards and career development services.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.3MCivil Rights$60kEnvironment$45kHousing & Shelter$35kEducation$27kPhilanthropy$25k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $175,066 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,379,081 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,204,015 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VISION INTO ART PRESENTS$50,000
SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC$21,841
PIONEER WINTER COLLECTIVE$20,000
WALKING IRIS MEDIA$20,000
FOUND SOUND NATION INC$15,000
PROTOCINEMA$15,000
PICKUP PERFORMANCE CO$13,225
SUSTAINABLE NATIVE COMMUNITIES COLLABORATIVE$10,000
SBDNY INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC: $30k → 8%THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY: $20k → 16%BLUEBIRD CULTURAL INITIATIVE: $20k → 12%INTERFAITH WORKING GROUP: $20k → 22%SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $27k → 9%WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $20k → 10%MOVING PARTS CRIP INSTITUTE: $15k → 14%SBDNY INC: $35k → 9%UNIONDOCS: $20k → 13%THE TANK LTD: $15k → 17%STORYLINE INC: $20k → 20%THE MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT: $25k → 10%SANTA FE FILM INSTITUTE: $15k → 12%PIONEER WINTER COLLECTIVE: $15k → 15%PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $15k → 12%SCAPEGOAT GARDEN INC: $20k → 11%ROSE TREE PRODUCTIONS INC: $15k → 13%NOT AN ALTERNATIVE INC: $15k → 9%UNITED STATES ARTISTS: $250k → 14%JANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE: $20k → 23%DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: $15k → 8%THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY: $15k → 16%INTERFAITH WORKING GROUP: $15k → 22%SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $15k → 9%WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $15k → 10%VIVER BRASIL DANCE COMPANY: $25k → 14%SBDNY INC: $15k → 9%FOUND SOUND NATION INC: $15k → 13%THE TANK LTD: $15k → 17%STORYLINE INC: $15k → 20%THE MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT: $15k → 10%PIONEER WINTER COLLECTIVE: $20k → 15%SCAPEGOAT GARDEN INC: $15k → 11%JANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE: $15k → 23%AGITARTE INC: $15k → 8%COUSIN COLLECTIVE: $15k → 9%VIVER BRASIL DANCE COMPANY: $20k → 14%UNIONDOCS: $15k → 13%PROTOCINEMA: $15k → 17%SCAPEGOAT GARDEN INC: $15k → 11%COUSIN COLLECTIVE: $15k → 9%UNIONDOCS: $15k → 13%PICKUP PERFORMANCE CO: $15k → 17%NEW BROOKLYN THEATER INC: $25k → 20%THE TEAM: $27k → 20%SOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $22k → 17%VISION INTO ART PRESENTS: $50k → 20%FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC: $20k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
NE
NM
NC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$868k · 21 repeat orgs$562k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
14

Total granted

$868k
$461k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+4%

Still filing today

86%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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 & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • UI
    UNIONDOCS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +71%
  • THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $48k · revenue +136%
  • SD
    SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND
    2× · 2022–2023 · $45k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • United States Artists Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -24%
  • TT
    The Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $27k · revenue +103%
  • TF
    THE FEATH3R THEORY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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3
International Cultural Arts Network
Arts & Culture
4
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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5
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
6
New Dance Alliance Inc

New Dance Alliance is a performing arts nonprofit. Our mission, from the earliest days, has been to support experimental movement-based artists. In recent years, we have shifted our focus, making an explicit commitment to equity and…

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7
On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

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8
Tigerlion Arts
Arts & Culture
9
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
10
Pangea World Theater

Pangea World Theater strives to build a just world by creating multi-disciplinary theater that embodies decolonizing practices of solidarity, sustainability and equity.

Arts & Culture
11
Staretthe Directors Company Inc

The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…

Arts & Culture
12
New Expressive Works

New Expressive Works (N.E.W.) engages audiences with the creative power of multicultural, multi-genre, and multi-disciplinary professional independent performing artists, by providing critical studio space for artistic research, education,…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The FEATH3R Theory Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersDance Arts OrganizationsLocal History MuseumsAffordable Housing Developm…Policy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%36%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%48%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/40
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,525

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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 40 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
20/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

United States Artists Inc — $250,000 · Arts & CultureUnited States Artists IncSBDNY Inc — $60,000 · Arts & CultureSBDNY IncVISION INTO ARTS PRESENTS INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureUNIONDOCS INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $47,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND — $45,000 · Arts & CulturePIONEER WINTER COLLECTIVE INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureWALKING IRIS MEDIA — $45,000 · Arts & CultureViver Brasil Dance Company — $45,000 · Arts & CultureDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT — $40,000 · Arts & Culture+18 more — $359,841 · Arts & Culture+18 moreSCAPEGOAT GARDEN INC — $50,000 · OtherSCAPEGOAT GARDEN INCSUSTAINABLE NATIVE COMMUNITIES COLLABORATIVE INC — $45,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE NATIVE C…STORYLINE INC — $45,000 · OtherSTORYLINE INCINTERFAITH WORKING GROUP — $45,000 · OtherINTERFAITH WORKING G…Pick Up Performance Co Inc — $43,270 · OtherPick Up Performance …ROSE TREE PRODUCTIONS INC — $15,000 · OtherROSE TREE PRODUCTION…LIZNBOW — $15,000 · OtherLIZNBOWMOVING PARTS CRIP INSTITUTE — $15,000 · OtherMOVING PARTS CRIP IN…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $52,000 · EducationJANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE — $35,000 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$1,122,341Other$273,270Education$52,000Housing & Shelter$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUnited States Artists Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSBDNY Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $52,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIONDOCS INC — $50,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $47,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND — $45,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetPIONEER WINTER COLLECTIVE INC — $45,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetWALKING IRIS MEDIA — $45,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSTORYLINE INC — $45,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKING GROUP — $45,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetViver Brasil Dance Company — $45,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC — $45,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPick Up Performance Co Inc — $43,270 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT — $40,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetAGITARTE INC — $35,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetJANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE — $35,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE TANK LTD — $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBLUEBIRD CULTURAL INITIATIVE — $30,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCousin Collective Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetThe Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Inc — $27,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE FEATH3R THEORY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSOHO REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $21,841 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWCV INC — $17,500 over 2y, 26% of budgetPORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNOT AN ALTERNATIVE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPARTICIPANT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPROTOCINEMA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetAUBIN PICTURES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCAVE ORGANIZATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYaa Samar Dance Theatre — $15,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSANTA FE FILM INSTITUTE — $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budget
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.

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.

New England Foundatio…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Ford FoundationTides FoundationThe Map Fund IncPerspective Media Ini…Amalgamated Charitabl…New Music USA IncSundance InstituteThe Howard Gilman Fou…Catapult Film FundInmaat Foundation
New England Foundation for the Arts IncorporatedMA33.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Map Fund Inc · Perspective Media Initiatives Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Music USA Inc · Sundance Institute · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Catapult Film Fund · Inmaat Foundation

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 Creative Capital Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art — 5% of income from government
  • Documentary Educational Resources Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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