· Public charity
Creative Pinellas Inc
Creative pinellas is the designated local arts agency for pinellas county, supporting regional artists, arts organizations, and arts tourism.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $62,087 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $292,280 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $230,193 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
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN STAGE COMPANY | $16,205 |
| JACK'S SIGNS & DESIGNS | $12,072 |
| MOREAN ARTS CENTER | $10,400 |
| GULF BEACH ART CENTER | $8,760 |
| ST PETERSBURG CITY THEATRE INC | $7,650 |
| DUNEDIN FINE ARTS CENTER INC | $7,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GBGULF BEACH ART CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $61k · revenue +236%
- CCCreative Clay Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +22%
- FTfreeFall Theatre Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- ABARTIST BETH WARMATH LLCone grant, 2022 · $8k
- MSMICKETTSTACKHOUSE STUDIO LLCone grant, 2020 · $7k
- MIMOMENTIVE INCone grant, 2022 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Ballet Academy of St. Petersburg is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization established to provide accessible, high-quality ballet and dance education to individuals of all ages and backgrounds. Its primary exempt purpose is to promote arts…
To provide local and global artists a platform helping make their work accessible and affordable and to diversify the arts on offer in the greater Tampa Bay area by increasing exposure to artists from different perspectives and cultural…
The Art League of Marco Island, Inc. sponsors and promotes the study of, appreciation and support for, and interest in, the fine arts and in allied and related creative arts and crafts. The Art Center honors Marco Island and Southwest…
Tampa Arts Alliance Inc. will provide leadership to the arts and cultural community of City of Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida by promoting the following: Growing the arts industry as an economic engine for the City of Tampa/…
A charitable ballet company producing professional ballet performances for the public, Arts Ballet Theatre provides accessibility, community involvement & education & training for professional and pre-professional dancers. It also provides…
A thriving art community creates a more prosperous and resilient community overall. We view resiliency as a top priority for our community as Panama City and the surrounding areas work to recover from Hurricane Michael in 2018. We believe…
Our mission is to build and sustain a vibrant arts community in St. Petersburg, Florida that supports the success of all artists and the community at large through a broad spectrum of tools, including community revitalization, marketing,…
Promote art education and instruction in West Volusia County and the surrounding areas through classes, events, exhibits, festivals and other cultural and civic activities.
Bringing art and Culture to the community and beyond.
Florida Cultural Group, Inc. and its venue, Manatee Performing Arts Center, are the cultural anchor and economic drivers in the Florida Gulf Coast region. We provide for all ages affordable, high-quality and thought-provoking…
To provide a focal point for artistic, educational and cultural activities within the city of port st joe, florida and the surrounding areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Studio 620 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dunedin Fine Art Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 21 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ARTS CENTER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GULF BEACH ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds Creative Clay Inc ↗
- Who funds freeFall Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds St Petersburg City Theatre Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Dunedin Fine Art Center ↗
- Who funds The American Stage Company Inc ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH WITH COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds DMG SCHOOL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO 620 INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF BALLET ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Keep St Pete Lit Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · J Crayton Pruitt Foundation Inc · Gobioff Foundation · Top Jewish Foundation Inc · Foundation for a Healthy St Petersburg Inc · Florida Humanities Council Inc · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Pinellas Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Gulf Beach Art Center — 0% of income from government
- Creative Clay Inc — 0% of income from government
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.