How much does Creative Capital Foundation give?

Creative Capital Foundation reported 9 itemized grants totaling $175,066, out of $3,379,081 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Creative Capital Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (87%), Civil Rights (4%), Environment (3%).

Who are Creative Capital Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United States Artists Inc ($250k), SBDNY Inc ($60k), Uniondocs Inc ($50k).

Does Creative Capital Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Creative Capital Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, The Ford Foundation.

Where is Creative Capital Foundation based?

Creative Capital Foundation is based in NY.

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New York · Public charity

Creative Capital Foundation

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

$3.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 9
Itemized grants FY2025: 8
Organizations funded FY2024: 25%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $175k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $50,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 18; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $12M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Creative Capital Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	9	$175k	44%
FY2024	8	$155k	25%
FY2023	17	$280k	35%
FY2022	18	$288k	61%
FY2021	10	$385k	70%
FY2020	5	$59k	80%
FY2019	3	$45k	100%
FY2018	2	$35k	50%

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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.3MCivil Rights$60kEnvironment$45kHousing & Shelter$35kEducation$27kPhilanthropy$25k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
United States Artists Inc	$250,000	1	2%
SBDNY Inc	$60,000	3	32%
Uniondocs Inc	$50,000	3	1%
Scapegoat Garden Inc	$50,000	3	n/a
Vision Into Arts Presents Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
The Center for Independent Documentary Inc	$47,500	3	0%
Documentary Educational Resources Inc	$45,000	2	1%
Pioneer Winter Collective Inc	$45,000	3	5%
Interfaith Working Group	$45,000	3	5%
Viver Brasil Dance Company	$45,000	2	3%

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All grantees of Creative Capital Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
United States Artists Inc	$250,000	1	2%
SBDNY Inc	$60,000	3	32%
Uniondocs Inc	$50,000	3	1%
Scapegoat Garden Inc	$50,000	3	n/a
Vision Into Arts Presents Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
The Center for Independent Documentary Inc	$47,500	3	0%
Documentary Educational Resources Inc	$45,000	2	1%
Pioneer Winter Collective Inc	$45,000	3	5%
Interfaith Working Group	$45,000	3	5%
Viver Brasil Dance Company	$45,000	2	3%
Walking Iris Media	$45,000	3	3%
Southern Documentary Fund	$45,000	2	3%
Storyline Inc	$45,000	3	9%
Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative Inc	$45,000	4	n/a
Pick Up Performance Co Inc	$43,270	3	8%
Foundation for Independent Artists Inc	$40,000	3	1%
Museum of Human Achievement	$40,000	2	4%
Agitarte Inc	$35,000	3	2%
Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative	$35,000	2	2%
Cousin Collective Inc	$30,000	2	9%
Bluebird Cultural Initiative	$30,000	2	5%
The Tank Ltd	$30,000	2	1%
The Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Inc	$27,000	1	11%
The Feath3r Theory Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Soho Repertory Theatre Inc	$21,841	1	1%
Wcv Inc	$17,500	2	26%
Aubin Pictures Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Cave Organization Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Yaa Samar Dance Theatre	$15,000	1	5%
Protocinema Inc	$15,000	1	24%
Santa Fe Film Institute	$15,000	1	4%
Found Sound Nation Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Liznbow	$15,000	1	n/a
Participant Inc	$15,000	1	2%
Rose Tree Productions Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Moving Parts Crip Institute	$15,000	1	n/a
Not an Alternative Inc	$15,000	1	4%
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art	$15,000	1	1%
Kchung Radio	$8,500	1	n/a

Creative Capital Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

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

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 Creative Capital Foundation

How much does Creative Capital Foundation give?: Creative Capital Foundation reported 9 itemized grants totaling $175,066, out of $3,379,081 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Creative Capital Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (87%), Civil Rights (4%), Environment (3%).
Who are Creative Capital Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United States Artists Inc ($250k), SBDNY Inc ($60k), Uniondocs Inc ($50k).
Does Creative Capital Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Creative Capital Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, The Ford Foundation.
Where is Creative Capital Foundation based?: Creative Capital Foundation is based in NY.