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· Public charity
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION
Creating awareness of critical issues and promoting positive action through media and the arts.
$14M
Granted FY2024
90
Grants
19
Communities
$1.4M
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 95% of CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
medicinemaasai
2020
standtakeproductionscollective
2021
othrseleanortippictureswomencollectiveblack
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 90 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+14 grants · $8.2M
$27,388
Median grant
19
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNBROKEN GENERATION PRODUCTION LLC$1,394,102
- WONDERSTRUCK PRODUCTIONS LLC$1,358,000
- IMPAKT PARTNERS LLC$883,951
- OPTIMIST FILMS LLC$697,951
- THE FRED ROSS PROJECT LLC$575,000
- LOUISVILLE FILMS$490,000
- HG FILMS LLC$454,426
- GRANTS OF THE NILE LLC$419,928
- CLASSY INC$389,650
- HG FILMS LLC$356,255
- THE SUMMIT SERIES LLC$328,907
- LEOPOLD FILMS LLC$285,000
- QUIET EPIDEMIC$275,134
- INFINITY CULINARY TRAINING$259,490
- THE LAST WITCH LLC$238,729
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$36M · 74 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +338% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
74
178
Total granted
$36M
$11M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+338%
-10%
Still filing today
8%
6%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.2M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitEnvironmentEmploymentCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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
- GEGood Energy Project Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $506k · revenue +880% · 43% of their budget
- TLTransCanWork LLC2× · 2019–2020 · $273k · revenue +338% · 53% of their budget
- MIMeto Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $93k · revenue +4522%
Funded once
- WNWorking Nationone grant, 2019 · $999k
- APAmerican Psych Practitioners Assnone grant, 2023 · $581k
- FFFemale Founder Collective Incone grant, 2021 · $563k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Transparent Collective Inc
Increasing the number of underrepresented founders raising early stage funding
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2
For the Wild Collective
For The Wild Collective's mission is to preserve and strengthen the integrity of Earth's natural communities. It is dedicated to protecting land, promoting co-liberation, and sharing intersectional stories challenging human supremacy,…
Environment
3
Radical Evolution Performance Collective Inc
Radical Evolution is a multiethnic producing collective committed to creating artistic events that seek to understand the complexities of the mixed-identity existence in the 21st Century. The organization develops and creates live…
Arts & Culture
4
Fair Pay Workplace
To create economic equality and empowerment for women and BIPOC in the workplace by dismantling systems of pay inequity based on gender, race and their intersection.
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5
Generator Collective
Generator Collective's mission is to humanize policy through storytelling by helping organize the noise of these policies and overall lower the political barrier of entry.
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6
Anonymous Ensemble Inc
Anonymous Ensemble creates new theater, performance media, and live film. Incorporating original texts, music, rituals, and technologies, we foster intimate experiences between local and digitally global communities. By giving voice and…
Arts & Culture
7
Planted Society
We partner with brands restaurants and communities to inspire plant-based eating everywhere by providing free assistance including marketing PR and consultation.
Environment
8
We the Women
We The Women is an all-female theater company dedicated to creating and curating live pop-up theatrical experiences led by all female teams. We The Women aims to empower women by showcasing female voices and transforming the traditional…
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9
Open Architecture Collaborative Inc
A global learning community mobilizing architects, designers, and a diverse range of professionals who shape the built environment with technical skills to build capacity with communities experiencing systemic racism and marginalization.
Community Improvement
10
Apsara Studios Inc
Youth Development
11
International Free Expression Project
The Organization works to build a world in which everyone can be who they are, say what they want, and be heard.
Arts & Culture
12
Ocean Policy Lab Inc
Urban Ocean Lab cultivates rigorous, creative, equitable, and practical climate and ocean policy for the future of coastal cities
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Energy Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Female Founder Collective Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
6/17
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$49,733,512Arts & Culture$828,561Community Improvement$552,432Environment$523,579Employment$337,709Education$93,166Human Services$93,000
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.
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.
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA3.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Ready to Launch.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 861977787 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Ready to Launch, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 86% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Creative Visions Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Creative Visions Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines