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Creative Enterprise Zone

The CREATIVE ENTERPRISE ZONE's (cez's) mission is to attract and support creative people and businesses to makeithere cezmsp. Located between prior avenue and the boundary between minneapolis and saint paul along the green line, we envision the zone as a thriving district of creativity and innovation centered in an equitable and just…

$25k
Granted FY2022
2
Itemized grants FY2022
2
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$20k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 3
FY2021 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$252k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Creative Enterprise Zone funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20222$20k100%
FY20213$30kn/a
80% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$30kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Celtic Junction Arts Center Inc$10,00013%
Collide Theatrical Dance Company$10,00013%
Social Impact Strategies Group$10,0001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.

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How do I get to Creative Enterprise Zone?

Find your warmest path to Creative Enterprise Zone through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Creative Enterprise Zone

How much does Creative Enterprise Zone give?
Creative Enterprise Zone reported 2 itemized grants totaling $20,000, out of $25,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
What does Creative Enterprise Zone fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2022, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (60%), Community Improvement (20%).
Who are Creative Enterprise Zone's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2022: Celtic Junction Arts Center Inc ($10k), Collide Theatrical Dance Company ($10k), Social Impact Strategies Group ($10k).
Does Creative Enterprise Zone fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Creative Enterprise Zone based?
Creative Enterprise Zone is based in MN.

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 5 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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