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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 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 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $175,066, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,379,081 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,204,015 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.

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
WALKING IRIS MEDIA$20,000
PIONEER WINTER COLLECTIVE$20,000
FOUND SOUND NATION INC$15,000
PROTOCINEMA$15,000
PICKUP PERFORMANCE CO$13,225
SBDNY INC$10,000
SUSTAINABLE NATIVE COMMUNITIES COLLABORATIVE$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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%COUSIN COLLECTIVE: $15k → 9%WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $15k → 10%VIVER BRASIL DANCE COMPANY: $25k → 14%SBDNY INC: $15k → 9%UNIONDOCS: $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%SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $15k → 9%VIVER BRASIL DANCE COMPANY: $20k → 14%UNIONDOCS: $15k → 13%PROTOCINEMA: $15k → 17%SCAPEGOAT GARDEN INC: $15k → 11%COUSIN COLLECTIVE: $15k → 9%FOUND SOUND NATION INC: $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
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
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
NE
NM
NC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -10% for those 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%
-10%

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
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

  • UI
    UNIONDOCS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +71%
  • THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $48k · revenue +106%
  • PW
    PIONEER WINTER COLLECTIVE INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +153%

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%
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
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Parity Productions Inc
Arts & Culture
3
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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4
International Cultural Arts Network
Arts & Culture
5
California Institute of Contemporary Art
—
6
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
7
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…

—
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
Los Angeles Performance Practice

As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The FEATH3R Theory Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 40 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
19/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United States Artists Inc: $250,000 · Arts & CultureUnited States Artists IncSBDNY Inc: $60,000 · Arts & CultureSBDNY IncUNIONDOCS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureVISION INTO ARTS PRESENTS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $47,500 · Arts & CultureDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC: $45,000 · Arts & CulturePIONEER WINTER COLLECTIVE INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureViver Brasil Dance Company: $45,000 · Arts & CultureWALKING IRIS MEDIA: $45,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND: $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 INCINTERFAITH WORKING GROUP: $45,000 · OtherINTERFAITH WORKING G…STORYLINE INC: $45,000 · OtherSTORYLINE INCSUSTAINABLE NATIVE COMMUNITIES COLLABORATIVE INC: $45,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE NATIVE C…Pick Up Performance Co Inc: $43,270 · OtherPick Up Performance …LIZNBOW: $15,000 · OtherLIZNBOWROSE TREE PRODUCTIONS INC: $15,000 · OtherROSE TREE PRODUCTION…MOVING 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPIONEER WINTER COLLECTIVE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKING GROUP: $45,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetViver Brasil Dance Company: $45,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWALKING IRIS MEDIA: $45,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND: $45,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSTORYLINE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 8.6% 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 budgetCousin Collective Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetBLUEBIRD CULTURAL INITIATIVE: $30,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetTHE TANK LTD: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% 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 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 budgetPROTOCINEMA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSANTA FE FILM INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetPARTICIPANT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNOT AN ALTERNATIVE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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

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 Creative Capital Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Creative Capital Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 40 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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