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Creative Pinellas Inc

Creative pinellas is the designated local arts agency for pinellas county, supporting regional artists, arts organizations, and arts tourism. We are an indispensable resource and arts advocate for the entire county and offer services and programs to promote and support the arts.

$292k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$62k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,400
Largest grant, FY2025
$16,205
Organizations funded a year
1 to 17
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$471k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Creative Pinellas Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$62k0%
FY20245$56k0%
FY202317$224k29%
FY202215$204k87%
FY20212$18k100%
FY20201$7kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$509k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Arts Center Association Inc$93,78851%
Gulf Beach Art Center$60,80856%
Creative Clay Inc$50,00024%
freeFall Theatre Inc$50,00022%
St Petersburg Arts Alliance Inc$50,00024%
St Petersburg City Theatre Incorporated$41,86844%
Jack's Signs & Designs$29,9223n/a
Dunedin Fine Art Center$27,88040%
The American Stage Company Inc$21,38020%
The Studio 620 Inc$20,81823%
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All grantees of Creative Pinellas Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Arts Center Association Inc$93,78851%
Gulf Beach Art Center$60,80856%
Creative Clay Inc$50,00024%
freeFall Theatre Inc$50,00022%
St Petersburg Arts Alliance Inc$50,00024%
St Petersburg City Theatre Incorporated$41,86844%
Jack's Signs & Designs$29,9223n/a
Dunedin Fine Art Center$27,88040%
The American Stage Company Inc$21,38020%
The Studio 620 Inc$20,81823%
Friends of the Festival Inc$20,81828%
In Touch With Communities Around the World Inc$20,81822%
Dmg School Project Inc$20,81828%
Sunbelt Rentals$18,1652n/a
Artist Beth Warmath LLC$8,2821n/a
Mickettstackhouse Studio LLC$6,8001n/a
Momentive Inc$6,0001n/a
Academy of Ballet Arts Inc$5,81812%
Tampa Bay Symphony Inc$5,81814%
Dr Carter G Woodson African American Museum Inc$5,81810%
Keep St Pete Lit Inc$5,81819%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Creative Pinellas Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArts Center Association Inc: $93,788 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGulf Beach Art Center: $60,808 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetCreative Clay Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetfreeFall Theatre Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSt Petersburg Arts Alliance Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSt Petersburg City Theatre Incorporated: $41,868 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetDunedin Fine Art Center: $27,880 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe American Stage Company Inc: $21,380 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Studio 620 Inc: $20,818 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFriends of the Festival Inc: $20,818 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetIn Touch With Communities Around the World Inc: $20,818 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDmg School Project Inc: $20,818 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetAcademy of Ballet Arts Inc: $5,818 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTampa Bay Symphony Inc: $5,818 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetDr Carter G Woodson African American Museum Inc: $5,818 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKeep St Pete Lit Inc: $5,818 over 1y, 8.9% of budget

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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 16.

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.

Community Foundation of Tampa Bay IncFL31.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Pinellas Inc

How much does Creative Pinellas Inc give?
Creative Pinellas Inc reported 6 itemized grants totaling $62,087, out of $292,280 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Creative Pinellas Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
Who are Creative Pinellas Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Arts Center Association Inc ($94k), Gulf Beach Art Center ($61k), Creative Clay Inc ($50k).
Does Creative Pinellas Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Creative Pinellas Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc, Pinellas Community Foundation, J Crayton Pruitt Foundation Inc.
Where is Creative Pinellas Inc based?
Creative Pinellas Inc is based in FL.

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 21 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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